Things are heating up at Denver Urban Field Station
Researchers affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Denver Urban Field Station collected microclimate field data, which they paired with social survey data, to understand how extreme heat might disproportionately affect transit riders at bus stops around Denver, Colorado. USDA…
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Secretary appoints new members of National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council
WASHINGTON, DC—Secretary Vilsack has appointed new members to the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council. Under direction from Congress, the council oversees the Forest Service’s National Urban and Community Forestry Program and provides urban natural resource recommendations to the secretary of Agriculture and other…