Around the Forest Service: May 2025
Chief Schultz continues to get to know employees. In May, he visited Lake Tahoe Basin and discussed vegetation management projects before observing a prescribed fire and then visiting a timber sale on Tahoe Basin National Forest. Secretary Rollins and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed a joint fire memo ahead of peak fire season in an event held at Forest Service…
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National Grasslands
Welcome to Your National Grasslands!These wind-swept seas of grass and wildflowers—four million acres in all—have witnessed the pageant of the frontier, the Dust Bowl, and the dramatic recovery into a great national treasure.It's National Grasslands Week! June 16 - 22, 2024June 16 – 22, 2024, as National Grasslands Week (PDF, 50 KB)Find a National GrasslandVisit National Grassland…
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Planting new hope in the Umpqua River basin
A sugar pine seedling grows within the Archie Creek Fire scar. Seedlings are planted in the early spring so they are not damaged by hot and dry summer weather. Forest Service photo by Adrienne Barcas
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service recently announced a 10-year strategy to confront the…
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Predicting acorn crop size
USDA Forest Service field technicians collected acorns and visually surveyed 477 oak trees of five common species, including Quercus velutina, or black oak. Photo courtesy bugwood.org/T.Davis Sydnor, OSU.
NORTH CAROLINA—Land managers can now estimate the number of acorns in their forest each fall with methods devised by Southern Research…