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‘Unsung Heroes’ Help Find Infant Left Deep in the Woods

May 15, 2019 Kathryn Sosbe, USDA Forest Service

Forest Service law enforcement officers Nicholas Scholz and Patrick Legg helped find the needle in a 2 million-acre haystack. The needle was a 5-month-old infant, and the haystack is the Lolo National Forest in Montana. Last week, the officers were each honored as an Unsung Hero for their work in...

Forestry

Meeting the Next Generation Who will Carry the Torch as Wilderness, Natural Resource Stewards

May 19, 2014 Arthur "Butch" Blazer, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture

While my days of adventuring into the back country are by no means over, it is becoming increasingly apparent that my generation is approaching the inevitable time when we must pass the torch on to the next generation of wilderness and natural resource stewards. On my recent trip to Missoula...

Conservation Forestry

U.S. Forest Service Recognized for Energy Conservation Efforts

January 10, 2014 Deidra L. McGee, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

The Forest Service’s Technology and Development Center recently received the White House’s 2013 GreenGov Presidential Award and the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2013 Federal Energy and Water Management Award for its net zero energy facility project in San Dimas, Calif. A facility earns a net zero...

Conservation Energy Forestry

Forest Service Program Introduces Kids to Natural Resource Careers

November 01, 2013 Brandan Schulze, Northern Region, U.S. Forest Service

In an age where technology tends to focus the attention of youth indoors, getting kids outdoors and interested in natural resource careers is even more vital today. Since 1998, an innovative U.S. Forest Service seven-week summer program in central Montana has been achieving that goal by immersing...

Forestry

First Forest Service Volunteer Receives Recognition

November 04, 2011 Deidra L. McGee – Forest Service Office of Communication

It is quite a phenomenon to be the first of anything and to be recognized for it. It is especially noteworthy when you have a passion for the land, and are willing to work and care for it as a volunteer. That’s what Gloria Owen did as the first official volunteer in the U.S. Forest Service’s history...

Forestry
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