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Innovative Education and Public Safety through USDA Funding

August 22, 2013 Dawn Bonsell, Pennsylvania Public Affairs Specialist

Bear Creek Community Charter School has a history dating back to Civil War Brigadier General Paul Ambrose Oliver whose heirs donated the land for the school in 1929. The original Oliver School was a traditional one-room school house, constructed as a project of the Works Progress Administration...

Rural

Super Storm Sandy Whips Up Super Recovery Satisfaction

August 22, 2013 Kent Politsch, Chief, FSA Public Affairs

Disasters create pain. And recovery from disasters creates partnerships and opportunity. That is the lesson Liang Shao Hua learned in the past year after Tropical Storm Sandy, also known as Super Storm Sandy, destroyed his New Jersey high-tunnel farming operation and left him wondering how to manage...

Conservation

USDA Chief Scientist Answers Your Questions on STEM and Agricultural Science Degrees; Join Our Twitter Chat Using #StudyAgScience

August 22, 2013 Justice Wright, Research, Education, and Economics

Do you have questions about why there is a big push for students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? Or what jobs, in addition to farming, are available for graduates with agricultural science degrees? USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education...

Research and Science

Smokejumpers - Out of the Sky and Into the Fire

August 22, 2013 Donna Drelick, Office of Communications, U.S. Forest Service

This blog is part of a series from the U.S. Forest Service on its wildland firefighting program to increase awareness about when and how the agency suppresses fires, to provide insights into the lives of those fighting fires, and to explain some of the cutting-edge research underway on fire behavior...

Forestry