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Natural Building - of Homes and Partnerships in Utah

July 14, 2015 Dave Conine, Utah State Director, USDA Rural Development

Though National Homeownership Month has ended, the stories of people in rural America achieving that American dream never do. Last month I had the good fortune to visit the homes of two such people in Moab, Utah: Heather Gallagher and Lynn Chenard. Both women live and work in the town of Moab, Utah...

Rural

Cultivating Native Leaders in Conservation

July 14, 2015 Leslie Wheelock, Director, Office of Tribal Relations

Recently, ninety Alaska Native, American Indian, and Native Hawaiian high school students came together at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia for a week of intensive education and peer-to-peer training about the impact of climate change on tribal communities...

Conservation Forestry

Training the Next Generation of Watershed Managers to Fight Drought

July 14, 2015 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

With drought reaching historic proportions in Western states, America needs people with both knowledge and experience in water management to help ensure that forests and working lands stay ahead of the effects of climate change. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food...

Conservation

Through Partnerships, Golden-Winged Warbler Thrives

July 14, 2015 Stacy Ouellette, Natural Resources Conservation Service, West Virginia

One species that enjoys the West Virginia Appalachian environment for breeding is the golden-winged warbler, but habitat has been hard to find. There was great excitement when Idun Guenther, a wildlife biologist with the state’s Department of Natural Resources, spotted two golden-winged warbler...

Conservation