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Counting All Farmers - Capturing the Many Faces of Agriculture in the 2017 Census

January 19, 2016 Linda J. Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician and Research and Development Division Director, National Agricultural Statistics Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. The 2017 Census of Agriculture is still two years away but, at the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), we work...

Research and Science

Shawnee National Forest's Camel Rock Coming Soon to a Pocket near You

January 19, 2016 Sue Hirsch, Public Affairs Specialist, Shawnee National Forest

When hiking through amazing sandstone rock formations in the U.S. Forest Service’s Shawnee National Forest, in Illinois, one particular formation inevitably catches your attention, a camel stoically perched overlooking a spectacular landscape. It is this striking image, called Camel Rock, that was...

Forestry