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New Science Framework Provides Basis for Conservation and Restoration of Sagebrush

April 16, 2019 Jessica Brewen and Jennifer Hayes, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forest Service

“Resilience” is the ability to recover from change, or when you think about landscapes, the ability to recover from disturbances like wildfires. A new model takes the idea of resilience and applies it to the natural environment, specifically, to sagebrush. This resilience model is one of the core...

Conservation Forestry

Food Loss at the Farm Level

April 16, 2019 Claudia Hitaj, Economic Research Service

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates that about 30 percent of food in the United States goes uneaten at the retail and consumer level.

Research and Science