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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

Military Veterans Trained in Firefighting Techniques through Forest Service and California Conservation Corps

May 17, 2013 Stanton Florea, Pacific Southwest Region & Tiffany Holloway, Office of Communication

The U.S. Forest Service has partnered with the California Conservation Corps to provide firefighter training for military veterans. “Fire and Aviation Management is particularly appealing because of the significance of our mission and our well-defined organization,” said Robert Baird, deputy...

Conservation Forestry

Celebrating the Civilian Conservation Corps

April 26, 2013 Tiffany Holloway, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

On a recent cool, crisp spring morning in the mountains of Virginia, the Boy Scouts of America Troop 88 followed in the footsteps of the first “boys” of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC. The first CCC camp, Camp Roosevelt, was established April 17, 1933 at the George Washington and Jefferson...

Conservation
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