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NASS Ag Research Counts!

May 14, 2013 Justice Wright, Public Affairs Specialist for USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics Mission Area

To recognize the contribution that research in agriculture makes in our daily lives, we’re focusing this month’s Science Tuesday blogs on the successes that USDA science agencies have achieved for us all. How do we know where we’re going unless we know where we’re starting from? That question is the...

Research and Science

The New Green British Invasion

May 14, 2013 Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service Green Team wants you to know that Green Office Week has arrived from across the Atlantic. The first Green Office Week was launched in 2009 in Great Britain in response to research showing that United Kingdom employees felt they were being held back from being environmentally...

Conservation Forestry

Spring Snows, Cold Weather to Give Way to Camping – Are You Ready?

May 14, 2013 Chris Hartman, Recreation, Heritage and Wilderness Resources, U.S. Forest Service

As the weather begins to get warmer and the sun stays high in the sky longer, we hope your thoughts turn to camping and outdoor activities on your national forests and grasslands. Whether you are camping on the ground, in a tent or in a recreational vehicle, whether it’s your first time or you’re a...

Forestry

USDA Helps a Utah Town Earn a "Most Improved Water System" Award

May 14, 2013 Jamie Welch Jaro, Public Affairs Specialist, Utah State Rural Development Office

Sigurd, Utah, located on the border of Fishlake National Forest, is a town of 435 and varying elevations. The highs and lows of Sigurd’s landscape make it a beautiful place to live, but with an outdated water system, the location caused problems for the residents. For years, the town coped with a...

Initiatives Rural