Alaska sustainability strategy boosts food systems
Sustainable Southeast Partnership Chilkat Valley Community Catalyst Katrina Aklá Hotch also works in and supports the Klukwan Aan Táayi (Community Garden). (Photo courtesy of Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid)
ALASKA — Tucked up into the northern extents of Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage…
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The little district that could: Making big impacts with a small staff
Bobby Claybrook, district ranger for the Redbird Ranger District, studies a map of oil and gas well locations on Forest Service land. Decades of natural resource extraction prior to Forest Service management creates challenges for the district today. USDA Forest Service photo by Scott Raymond…
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Reducing wildfire risk and supporting rural economies
This aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Lincoln County Montana is a beautiful place. Heavily forested, with the Cabinet Mountains as a backdrop, the vistas are what draw people here.…
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Communities coalescing
Jamestown Mitigation Project Vimeo.mp4 from The Watershed Center on Vimeo.America’s western forests are at risk. We are losing natural treasures to increasingly severe and frequent wildfires. These fires rage through overgrown, dense forests, fueled by drought, wind and terrain. And they threaten nearby towns and cities that rely on these forests for water and recreational opportunities.To…
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Fire Adapted Communities
Structures that are closely surrounded by trees and brush are more likely to burn in a wildfire. (USDA Forest Service image)
More than 70,000 communities and 46 million homes are at risk from wildfire in the wildland urban interface (WUI) – where undeveloped wildland and the built environment meet. Over the last ten years, more than 35,000 structures were destroyed by wildfires – an average of…