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Statistical Information Critical to Efficient Markets

May 24, 2016 Lance Honig, Crops Branch Chief, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Starting next week, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will reach out to tens of thousands of farmers across the United States. Our interviewers will go door to door and make phone calls to collect the most accurate information possible about farmland in each state. In addition, we...

Conservation

United States Drought Monitor: Innovative Data Solutions for the Future of Water

May 23, 2016 Caroline Dvorsky, Natural Resources and Environment

Communities across the United States are facing water challenges, impacting millions of lives and costing billions of dollars in damages. Recent events, including record-breaking drought in the West and severe flooding in the Southeast have elevated a national dialogue on the state of our Nation’s...

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Urban Youth Discover Conservation can be Life Changing

May 11, 2016 Michael Williams, U.S. Forest Service

A peaceful forest setting mixed with sounds of birds and running water provides a feeling of solitude one would expect in a remote wilderness. But this area is anything but remote. Nestled in the shadow of Atlanta’s metropolitan skyline resides a green jewel so secluded and tucked away that many...

Conservation Forestry

Climate-Smart Practices Keep the Land Covered

May 10, 2016 Margaret Smither-Kopperl, Manager, Lockeford Plant Materials Center, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Lockeford, CA

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

Conservation Research and Science USDA Results

Get a Little Wild with Flowers on National Forests, Grasslands

May 03, 2016 Leah Anderson, U.S. Forest Service

Hiking along the peaceful Greer Spring Trail in the Mark Twain National Forest the pathway is decorated with abundant wildflowers in bloom—vibrant yellow trout lily, Jacob’s ladder and white harbinger of spring. Look up and you may see Indian pipe, bird’s-foot violet, and firepink scattered along...

Conservation Forestry