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National Invasive Species Awareness Week: Snakes, Starlings, and Swine, Oh my!

February 22, 2016 Gail Keirn, USDA APHIS Public Affairs Specialist

This month USDA highlights some of the important partners that work with us to care for our land, air, water, and wildlife. The National Invasive Species Council is one such group. When you hear the word “invasive,” most people automatically think of bugs and weeds. Unfortunately, invasives (or non...

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Brown Tree Snake Research Wins DoD's 2015 Resource Conservation Project of the Year

February 02, 2016 Gail Keirn, USDA APHIS Public Affairs Specialist

This month USDA highlights some of the important partnerships that work with us to care for our land, air and water. The work stretches into areas and takes USDA employees to places you wouldn’t suspect. For example, the damage wreaked by invasive brown tree snakes on Guam is hard to imagine...

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