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Winter Weather Food Safety

December 21, 2018 Leo O-Drudy, Writer, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA

With the hurricane season of late summer and early fall behind us, it may be tempting to believe that the weather-related threats to food safety are behind us as well. However, winter storms can cause power outages that disable refrigerators and freezers just as well as summer storms do.

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Healthy Culverts Make for Healthy Drinking Water

April 10, 2017 Larry Moore, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Culverts provide an abundance of benefits to us every day. They allow us to pass over water, and for fish and wildlife to pass beneath us. And they allow us to go about our daily lives and ideally, for fish and wildlife to do the same. But when they’re badly designed, the results can be disastrous...

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