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Scientists Work to Protect Trees in Southeast Alaska from Non-Native Longhorned Beetles

October 21, 2014 Jane Knowlton, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

Non-native longhorned beetles are easily transported around the world in solid wood packing material, arriving in a new location with no natural enemies to control their populations. Across the country, many of these non-native beetles, particularly the Asian longhorned beetle, have killed tens of...

Forestry

Trading Spaces: Urbanized Detroit to Forested Manistique, Michigan

October 20, 2014 Janel Crooks, Hiawatha National Forest, and Lisa Perez, Urban Connections Detroit, U.S. Forest Service

Detroit youth joined the U.S. Forest Service and traded their city lights and busy streets for an action-packed three days on the Hiawatha National Forest filled with views of trees, wildlife and dirt roads. For most, this was their first time experiencing life outside the metropolitan area and...

Forestry

US Forest Service Entomologist Takes on Pesky Insects to Make a Difference in the Northeast

October 17, 2014 Glenn Rosenholm, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

Ryan Hanavan is a multi-faceted individual who enjoys his work on the front lines of forest health as an entomologist for the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry. “I have always been fascinated by insects and this career has essentially allowed me to explore a lifelong curiosity,” Hanavan...

Forestry

US Forest Service Keeping Score on Climate Change

October 14, 2014 Joe Smith, Office of the Climate Change Advisor, U.S. Forest Service

Day after day we’re seeing more impacts from climate change, and many concerned folks want to know what exactly their government is doing about it. In other words, who’s keeping score on what we’re doing as our climate warms? With this in mind, the U.S. Forest Service has developed something it...

Forestry

Celebrating America's Newest National Monument: The San Gabriel Mountains

October 10, 2014 Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama

Today, President Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act to establish 346,177 acres of USDA National Forest land in the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California as a national monument, permanently protecting the popular outdoor recreation destination to increase access and outdoor...

Forestry

Announcing the U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition to Innovate Building Construction

October 10, 2014 Doug McKalip, Senior Policy Advisor for Rural Affairs with the White House Domestic Policy Council

Cross-posted from the White House Rural Council: As part of the Obama administration's commitment to mitigate climate change, USDA, in partnership with the Softwood Lumber Board and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, is announcing the U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition. This competitive...

Energy Rural

Veteran Farmer Grows the Family Farm 'Organically'

October 06, 2014 Christy Morgan, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Kentucky

Larry E. King was raised in a family with farming roots. The very land he now farms in McCreary County, Kentucky was purchased by his mother during World War II. He remembers his mother telling him, “If we didn’t raise it, we didn’t have it.” In his late teens, King raised strawberries on the farm...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Mule Deer Habitat in Western United States Improves Based on Restoration Efforts with Partners

October 01, 2014 John Sinclair, National Wildlife Program, U.S. Forest Service

The mule deer on the Spanish Fork Ranger District, a part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah, are happy foragers these days thanks to a dedicated effort to improve their habitat and increase their numbers. Mule deer are primarily browsers, with a majority of their diet comprised of...

Forestry

US Forest Service Tool Fells Trees, Slices Through Massive Logs - and Sings

September 30, 2014 Alex Weinberg and Lisa Romano, Olympic National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

The crosscut saw, once a symbol for conquering the wild forests of the west in order to provide lumber for America’s cities, now endures as a symbol of wilderness preservation in our national forests. The crosscut saw reached prominence in the United States between 1880 and 1930, but quickly became...

Forestry

USDA Marks 50th Anniversary of the Job Corps

September 26, 2014 Meryl Harrell, Chief of Staff, Natural Resources and Environment

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act. This Act, part of the government effort to wipe out poverty, created the Job Corps program, which has had a positive effect on countless young lives, giving them a chance to break multi-generational cycles of...

Conservation Forestry
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