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500 Florida School Kids Adopt New Skills Learned in the Great Outdoors

January 30, 2012 Susan Blake, National Forests in Florida, and Jane Knowlton, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

What makes 500 middle and high school kids from area schools near Tallahassee, Fla., happy? Getting outside and embracing the great outdoors during a week-long U.S. Forest Service event known as ‘ More Kids in the Woods.’ During the five-day outdoor event , the kids developed new skills related to...

Forestry

Forests in Arizona Train Veterans

January 27, 2012 Candra Berg, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Civilian life is unlike that of military life in the service. Two forests, the Apache-Sitgreaves and the Prescott National Forest have recently developed programs to help veterans in their transition to civilian life. Through grants obtained by the U.S. Forest Service, these programs were offered to...

Forestry

Protecting Working Forests

January 27, 2012 Kathryn Conant, USFS Forest Legacy National Program Manager

The U.S. Forest Service recently announced grants totaling $52.2 million for 18 conservation and working lands projects across the U.S. this year. The landscapes are some of the country’s most beautiful spaces and will now be protected for future generations to enjoy. Since 1990, the Forest Legacy...

Conservation Forestry

Orphaned Bear Cubs Return Home to the Sierra National Forest

January 23, 2012 Renee Lee, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

In late August, a black bear was brutally shot and killed on the Sierra National Forest in northern California, leaving behind two orphaned bear cubs.

Forestry

Forest Service Chief Tidwell tours the District of Columbia’s urban forest

January 23, 2012 Jan Davis, Asst. Director for Urban Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

District of Columbia State Forester Monica Lear recently hosted U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Forest Service staff in a tour of the District for the National Association of State Foresters (NASF). The tour highlighted diverse urban and community forestry projects and partnerships in the...

Forestry

Forest Service Research Indicates Yellow-Cedar and Other Trees in Alaska Hold Biomass and Carbon

January 20, 2012 Robert H. Westover, US Forest Service Office of Communication

Tall and majestic, yellow-cedar is a culturally and economically valuable tree that has been dying off on more than a half-million acres for the past 100 years in southeast Alaska and nearby British Columbia. In fact, yellow-cedar decline is now viewed as one of the best documented examples of the...

Forestry

Oregon Resident Honored as Forest Service Regional Volunteer of the Year

January 20, 2012 Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

The Northwest Region of the Forest Service has named Joel Starr of Philomath, Ore., as their volunteer of the year. The honor is bestowed upon those individuals who contribute outstanding service to public lands. Starr has worked on a variety of volunteer projects for the Willamette, Deschutes...

Forestry

US Forest Service Trains Fire Brigades in the Brazilian Amazon

January 19, 2012 Ellita Willis, Public Affairs and Michelle Zweede, Brazil Program Manager, Forest Service

Since 1991, the U.S. Forest Service has worked to develop a program focusing on improving sustainable forest management and administration, fire management and prevention and special uses in protected areas in Brazil. The emphasis has been on exchanging experiences with a focus on critical issues...

Forestry Trade

California Welcomes Wild Wolf for First time in 87 Years

January 18, 2012 Renee Lee, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

For the first time in almost 90 years, the state of California has become home to a wolf. A few days shy of the new year, OR7 meandered alone into the Golden State after crossing the state border shared by Oregon. The 2-year-old gray wolf is the first and only documented wolf in California since...

Forestry

Ring Profiler Gives Scientists a Luminous Look at Tree Rings

January 17, 2012 Rebecca Wallace, U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Lab

The Ring Profiler may sound like the title of fantasy novel but in fact it’s an innovative tool U.S. Forest Service scientists are using to better determine how much a tree grows annually.

Forestry
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