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Sharing Experiences in America’s Best Fisheries

October 28, 2019 Larry Moore, USDA Forest Service Office of Communications

In 2017, Trout Unlimited started a program with an aim to raise awareness around America’s public lands and native fish. During this 10-week journey, the 5 Rivers Odyssey takes college students from across the country to fish rivers for native trout and salmon.

Forestry

Wood Waste Helps Keep the Lights on in Rural Communities

October 21, 2019 Mark Gaston, USDA Forest Service

Perched at the edge of the Great Basin, the city of Susanville, California, has experienced high winds, heavy snowfalls, and wildfires that disrupt power supplied on the regular grid. Fortunately, the city’s 20,000 residents, as well as those in surrounding rural communities, aren’t left in the dark...

Forestry

The Wood Product and Carbon Connection

October 07, 2019 Aurora Cutler, Alexa Dugan, and Duncan McKinley, Office of Sustainability and Climate, USDA Forest Service

When we think of a renewable resource, the first thing that usually pops in our head are the solar panels on our neighbor’s roof or perhaps the water that flows from the mountains. Rarely does a stand of trees root in our idea of a renewable resource.

Forestry

Fall Colors are Big Business for a Small-Town Store

September 30, 2019 Larry Moore, Office of Communication, USDA Forest Service

Nestled in a small cutout of the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont is a town named Lincoln. The very epitome of a small town, Lincoln, is home to around 1,200 people, depending on the season. It’s far enough off the highway that during the winter months, there’s limited traffic coming into...

Forestry

Be Amazed by the Colors of Fall

September 23, 2019 Robert Hudson Westover, Office of Communications, USDA Forest Service

There are so many beautiful songs and poems written about autumn. And images! Amazing Fall Colors Flickr pictures and Forest Service YouTube videos of trees and flowers aglow with brilliant reds, yellows and oranges among the many iridescent shades of the color spectrum—see what I mean! Fall just...

Forestry

Forest Service Helps Small Farmers Hit Hard by Hurricanes

September 20, 2019 Yaneris M. Soto Muñiz, Media Specialist, USDA Forest Service

José (Tato) Roig’s farm has been producing coffee since 1978 and has become one of the most successful farms in Puerto Rico’s Coffee Zone. However, Hurricane Maria inflicted severe damage on his crops, as well as those of many other coffee growers.

Forestry

The Forest Cookie Connection

September 12, 2019 Aurora Cutler, Office of Sustainability and Climate, USDA Forest Service

Having learned about recent fires in the Amazon rainforest at school, my first grader came home with a head full of ideas on how to protect what many call the lungs of the Earth—and all the animals that live there: a bake sale.

Forestry

Trees can do the Dirty Work of Waste Cleanup

August 30, 2019 Diane Banegas, Research and Development, USDA Forest Service

When it comes to ridding the earth of pollution leaking from dumps, closed landfills, and other waste sites, specific types of trees are quietly and efficiently absorbing the toxins.

Forestry

Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges

August 23, 2019 Tim Melchert, Fire and Aviation Management, USDA Forest Service

Wildfires can negatively impact communities, as the past few years illustrate. However, many communities are surrounded by ecosystems where fire has always been a natural part of the landscape. These negative impacts can be reduced by returning fire to its natural role on the landscape, and the...

Forestry

Five Diamonds for Smokey Bear’s 75th Birthday with More Fun to Come

August 15, 2019 Robert Hudson Westover, USDA Forest Service Office of Communication

If birthday parties were rated, the events surrounding Smokey Bear’s big day would easily earn five stars or diamonds since it is his 75 th. From California to Maine, states held celebrations in recognition of the USDA Forest Service’s fire prevention message “bearer” and his famous line, “Only You...

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