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An Important Action to Take: Check Your Trees!

August 24, 2020 Jeffrey Davidson, Commodity Specialist for Forest Products, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Did you know that USDA has declared August as Tree Check Month? That’s because August is the peak time of year to spot the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB)—an invasive wood-boring beetle that attacks 12 types of hardwood trees in North America, such as maples, elms, horse chestnuts, birches and willows...

Animals Forestry

During COVID-19, Central PA is Fighting Hunger One Bus at a Time

August 24, 2020 Curt Coccodrilli, USDA Rural Development Pennsylvania State Director

In 2018, Mel Curtis, Branch Director of the Moshannon Valley YMCA of Centre County and Pauline Rabb, CEO with Cen-Clear Child Services, joined forces to retrofit a 72-passenger bus with a kitchen and appliances and dubbed it The Travelin’ Table Mobile Feeding Bus. The initiative was created to serve...

Coronavirus Rural