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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 ...

What’s the expected outlook for fire season across the west this summer "We’re expecting an above normal fire season Integral factors that are beginning to line up with each other that we tend to see during the busier type seasons," said National Interagency  Fire Center meteorologist Bryan Henry. He not ...

Innovation: and what this means environmentally and economically is the emphasis is of USDA wood innovation grants. "The ability of markets to support our forest management, to support healthy forests and these projects have a connection to rural jobs," said the U ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says some quick thinking, cooperation, and willingness to work outside the norm led to avoiding potential problems between wolves and livestock in North Central Washington earlier this year.  In late May 2019 WDFW confirmed wolves were denning on an allotment in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.  Du...

If you're not familiar with it, Job Corps is a government run program that trains young people for employment.  And the U.S. Forest Service is looking for more workers.  So, It's no surprise the two would join forces.   “Secretary of Agriculture Perdue traveled to Denver national job corps headquarters and laid out a plan for a more formal program between national forest and the job corps centers,