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FAS Capacity-Building Efforts in Central America Yield Benefits There and at Home

June 27, 2016 Robert Schubert, FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development

Pablo Chacón, a young Guatemalan farmer who is studying agroforestry at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica, can now show the people in his home community how livestock grazing and hardwood forests can co-exist and prosper. Earlier this...

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Wildlife Underpass to Benefit Animals, Drivers

June 23, 2016 Paul Meznarich, US Forest Service

Every year in the U.S. roughly 200 people are killed in as many as 2 million wildlife-vehicle collisions and at a cost of more than $8 billion, according to the Western Transportation Institute. But the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station scientists, along with their...

Forestry

Pollinator Week: Celebrating Blue Butterflies on the Great Lakes

June 21, 2016 Leah Anderson, U.S. Forest Service

In honor of National Pollinator Week, the U.S. Forest Service joins organizations and individuals across the world to celebrate pollinators and share ways to help them survive and thrive. Pollinators are vital to healthy ecosystems. Eighty percent of flowering plants require pollination by animals...

Forestry

Get Outdoors and Enjoy the Age-Old Tradition of Ghost Stories by the Campfire

June 16, 2016 Robert H. Westover, US Forest Service

Shadows start falling fast while you scurry to gather the last scraps of dead wood before it’s too dark – and too scary – to leave the relative security of the campsite on your favorite National Forest or Grassland. But, once the fire is safely lit, everyone gathers around to start roasting...

Forestry

Knitting Together Treasured Landscapes with the Forest Legacy Program

June 14, 2016 Jonas Epstein, U.S. Forest Service

Did you know the Forest Legacy Program is the only federal grant program focused on the permanent protection of important private forestland, conserving over 2.5 million acres to date? This incentive-based and voluntary program managed by the U.S. Forest Service conserves working forests and...

Forestry

US Forest Service Waives Fees for National Get Outdoors Day - June 11

June 06, 2016 Ellita Willis, U.S. Forest Service

In an era of social media mania, forests around the country are opening their doors to reacquaint kids and parents with good old fashion family fun—without the aid of modern technology. On Saturday, June 11, the U.S. Forest Service invites families to join thousands of forest explorers for a free...

Forestry Initiatives

The Wonders of Wood Buildings

June 03, 2016 William Shoutis, Bozeman Ranger District, U.S. Forest Service

Trees do plenty of work to sequester carbon on their own, but many forests are not as healthy as they should be due to fire suppression and climate change. This can leave trees vulnerable to large scale insect damage, fire or drought, and much of the carbon stored by forests is lost to the...

Forestry

Climate Change Intensifying Wildfire on National Forests

May 31, 2016 Dr. David L. Peterson, U.S. Forest Service

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that wildfires are more common during hot, dry summers. The area burned in the United States in 2015, over 10 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, occurred during a record temperature year for the Earth, plus record low...

Forestry

Clean Air Provides Healthy Lands and Lets You Breathe a Little Easier

May 25, 2016 Chuck Sams, U.S. Forest Service

Something we do every day for survival is something we often take for granted – breathing. And a very important component of breathing is clean air. Air quality has a direct effect not only on the health of people, but also ecosystems. The Air Program in the Eastern and Southern regions of the U.S...

Forestry

Forest Service Rookie an International Inspiration

May 24, 2016 John C. Heil III, U.S. Forest Service

Six months after being hired by the U.S. Forest Service, Angelica Perez-Delgado made a major impact, including international assistance to the country of Georgia, on her way to being named Rookie of the Year for the Pacific Southwest Region late in 2015. When a major storm event triggered a...

Forestry