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Light Detection and Ranging Helps USDA Pinpoint and Protect Archaeological Mounds

June 02, 2014 Sharron Santure, Cultural Resources Specialist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Illinois

Sometimes to stop soil erosion, prevent nutrient and sediment runoff and improve habitat, conservation work does disturb the ground. Because of this, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service relies on its archaeologists on staff to review locations prior to implementing these conservation...

Conservation

USDA Then and Now

February 06, 2014 Amanda Eamich Nguyen, Director of Web Communications

For over a century and a half, USDA has worked alongside farmers, businesses, and community leaders to ensure USDA programs put forward the most innovative thinking to meet the changing needs of a modern agricultural landscape. Mission areas across USDA, from agricultural research to forest...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Rural Technology
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