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Talking Turkey: Forest Service and National Wild Turkey Federation Bringing Back Native Turkey Habitats

November 21, 2017 Veronica Hinke, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

Did you know that the wild turkey nearly triumphed over the bald eagle as the symbol of America? Yes, it’s true. Proponents as luminous as Benjamin Franklin once advocated for the turkey to be the symbol on the Great Seal of The United States. That’s all history now, but the turkey remains of strong...

Forestry Conservation

Need Help Growing Cranberries? It May Be Crawling in the Soil

November 21, 2017 Dennis O’Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Agricultural Research Service

The cranberries that are traditionally a part of Thanksgiving dinner may have a brighter future because of what Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists found when they went digging recently in a remote marsh in Wisconsin.

Research and Science