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Got Questions about Women in Science, Tech, Engineering, or Math (STEM)? Tweet us!

March 21, 2012 Rebecca Frank, Office of Communications

Join us tomorrow for a Twitter chat to discuss womens' increasing role in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). We'll be sitting down with Jenna Jadin, Ph.D, Office of the Chief Scientist and Dionne Fortson Toombs, Ph.D., National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to answer your...

Research and Science

Forest Service Recovery Act Funds Benefit Rhode Island

March 21, 2012 R. "Fitz" Fitzhenry, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

Two years of work is nearly complete on a project to eradicate what is considered one of the worst invasive exotic plants in parts of the eastern U.S. The Japanese knotweed grows in thick, dense colonies that completely crowd out native species. Forest Service Recovery Act funds helped to tackle the...

Forestry

Forest Service Information Center in Washington, DC to Reach its 250,000 Visitor This Spring Season

March 21, 2012 Deidra L. McGee, Forest Service Office of Communication

Many tourists in the nation’s capital have stumbled into the historical Sidney R. Yates Federal Building which houses the Forest Service national headquarters by mistake --- they were looking for the Holocaust Museum or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which is just down the street. But once...

Forestry

Hundreds Learn About Biodigester Energy Options at a Wisconsin Seminar

March 21, 2012 Kelly Edwards, Wisconsin USDA Public Information Officer

Hundreds of people, over the web or in person, learned about the financing and technology of anaerobic digester systems, the subject of a pair of webinars recently hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A broad spectrum of individuals participated including academics, farmers, and...

Energy