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Multiagency Effort Goes Deep Inside a Fire

July 29, 2019 Gail Keirn, Rocky Mountain Research Station-Fort Collins, CO; Matt Burks, Pacific Northwest Research Station-Corvallis, OR and John Zapell, Fishlake National Forest-Richfield, UT

Forest fires often reach or exceed temperatures of 2,000° Fahrenheit—that’s equivalent to one-fifth the temperature of the surface of the sun. What is the impact of such high temperatures on the soil and plants of our forests? And how do the intensity and heat of a wildfire impact its behavior...

Forestry

Corn is America’s Largest Crop in 2019

July 29, 2019 Tom Capehart and Susan Proper, Economic Research Service

Despite an unusually wet spring followed by an unusually cool June, America’s corn farmers planted even more than they did last year. U.S. farmers have planted 91.7 million acres of corn in 2019, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). That’s about 69 million football...

Research and Science