Celebrating 2024 Smokey Bear Award recipients
The Smokey Bear Awards have been bestowed on deserving individuals and groups annually since 1957. (USDA Forest Service photo)
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Smokey Bear Awards are the pinnacle of honor in wildfire prevention. These prestigious accolades, reserved for a select few individuals or organizations,…
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Around the Forest Service: July 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a town hall-style event at the University of Maine in Orono, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Forest Service is making $190 million available in Inflation Reduction Act funding to help private forest landowners adapt to and mitigate climate impacts to retain working forestlands. We celebrated National Wildland Firefighter Day on July 2, to show how much we…
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Leadership talks: Election cycle and Hatch Act reminders
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Thursday, July 25, Washington Office employees in the National Capital Region participated in a Zoom meeting with Associate Chief Angela Coleman and Chief of Staff Jaelith Hall-Rivera to discuss handling stress during this election cycle. As Associate Chief Coleman reminded all participants, "Regardless of the outcome of the election, we will continue to serve the American…
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USDA: July 2024 Secretary town hall
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On July 24, Secretary Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Torres Small held a department-wide town hall for all U.S. Department of Agriculture employees. Among the speakers was Jake Baechle, recreation program manager on the Coronado National Forest.Baechle was asked to speak about how the housing rent refund is helping him and others recruit and retain staff in what is known as a…
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Update: Housing rebate info session
Aug. 19, 2024 Thank you for your feedback during the housing refund information session and your calls and e-mails to the Chief Financial Office/Budget & Financing contact center. We have compiled responses and identified questions that were not previously addressed in the FAQs. As a result, the FAQ’s have been updated on the Housing Hub SharePoint site to reflect the most common…
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Deputy Chief Chris French testimony: Three bills before House Natural Resources
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Deputy Chief Chris French, National Forest System, testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands July 9. The three bills were: H.R. 3283, the Facilitating the Deployment of Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions and Legacy Applications Act; H.R. 3299, the Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions and Legacy Applications…