USDA Blog

By Deidra McGee, US Forest Service Public Affairs Specialist The announcement of the More Kids in the Woods (MKIW) challenge cost-share program highlights the multiple outcomes of many USDA Forest Service programs not only within the Agency, but across the Department and reaching to White House...

In 1999, Yreka High School in Yreka, California received funds from a Forest Service Grant (Partners in Flight Program) to enhance their agriculture and natural resource program and provide wildlife habitat on school grounds. These funds were used to build a songbird garden, purchase fencing...

Written by Sam Cuenca, District Wildlife Biologist, Region 5 Naturewatch Coordinator, Scott Salmon River Ranger District

By Secretary Tom Vilsack On Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, Americans across the country will be taking time out of their busy lives to help improve the environment, and USDA is joining the effort. From the mall in Washington DC, to the sands of New Mexico and plains of North Dakota, USDA employees...

By Phil Sammon, Forest Service, Public Affairs Specialist Today, President Barack Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, hosted the White House Conference on America’s Great...

More than 220 USDA employees met Thursday at the Varsity Theatre in Davis, Calif. to share their thoughts during the first listening session designed to help implement a cultural transformation within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Members of the USDA Cultural Transformation Task Force were...