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Volunteers Clear Weeds to Benefit Rocky Mountain Elk Habitat, Celebrate 50th Year of the Wilderness Act

November 12, 2014 Anne Janik, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

The Raggeds Wilderness, a nearly 65,000-acre area on the Gunnison and White River National Forests near Paonia, Colorado, is prime elk habitat with herd numbers in the hundreds. Acres of undisturbed coniferous forests are interspersed with open slopes of wet meadows thick with grasses and sedges, a...

Forestry

The Importance of Farm Broadcasting in Reaching America's 3.2 Million Farmers

November 12, 2014 Joe Prusacki, NASS National Operations Division Director

Growing up on a small crop and hog farm in Perry County, Illinois, I have memories as a child listening to the radio with my father or uncle to hear the latest agriculture news. As farmers, they relied on and trusted receiving weather, farm, and market updates from the local radio station, WDQN...

Trade

Community Eligibility Provision First Step to Universal School Meals in Vermont

November 12, 2014 Eddie Ortega, Public Affairs Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service - Northeast Regional Office

The following guest blog was submitted by Alida Duncan of the anti-hunger advocacy organization, Hunger Free Vermont . The implementation of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) by many state partners across the country means that more students have access to free healthy meals at school. This...

Food and Nutrition