u.s. forest service

Forest Health took center state at a Senate Ag committee hearing last week. Joe Fox is President of the National Association of State Foresters. "To maintain our forests as carbon sinks we can't let them be destroyed by out of control wildfires we must reduce wildfire fuel loads in our forests ...

Late last week, a group of Senators announced the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Act of 2021. The legislation would formally authorize the Department of Agriculture’s Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Initiative to better support forest and grassland restoration projects across public and private land, including NE Washington. The lawma ...

The USDA is seeking your input on Nonindustrial Private Forest Land related to technical and financial assistance available through conservation programs. The lands make up a large portion of the forested land base in the United States ...

The U.S. Forest Service is currently accepting funding applications for innovation related programs. The USFS' Kevin Naranjo says one program has been around for a while, and has become very popular. "Wood innovations grants really opened up in 2015 but that program itself has been around a little longer ...

Children are encouraged over the next couple of weeks to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Fee free access to over two thousand National Forest and grassland sites for the remainder of the school year is available for 4th and now 5th graders ...

What could the USDA look like under the Biden administration? A one-time member of the Obama Administration recently offered some insight into what the Department of Ag may look like in 2021 and beyond. Phillip Karsting, is the former Administrator of the USDA’s Foreign Ag Service under President Obama, as well as the former Interim President of the World Food Program. He ...

This week, the USDA delivered to Congress its priority list of deferred maintenance projects for Great American Outdoors Act funding in fiscal year 2021. The bill, USDA said will protect and enhance the economies of numerous gateway communities that surround public lands by restoring and maintaining critical access and infrastructure ...

The Forest Service is accepting applications for innovation grants. Announced Tuesday, the agency has approximately $10 million in funding available through the 2021 Wood Innovations Grant and the 2021 Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Grant ...

With so many students, regardless of age, doing classwork on-line, content is becoming more important for school districts and colleges a like.The U.S. Forest Service is reminding everyone of all of the education materials they make available... Read More ...

The 2020 edition of the U.S. Forest Service's Resource Planning Act Assessment is due out soon. "Recurring assessment of the current status, past trends, and projected futures of the nation's renewable resources," noted Claire O'Dea of the U ...