Working for the American People
This factsheet highlights recent Forest Service accomplishments to include wildfire risk reduction, healthy forests, and contributions to America's food supply. Thousands of Forest Service jobs support our mission of caring for the land and serving people.
#WildfireRiskReduction, #Water, #Grazing, #Recreation
Water is life
The Rio Fernando Collaborative has partnered with Taos County and the Forest Service to reduce wildfire risk and improve water availability in the Taos, New Mexico region. From left to right – Wayne Rutherford, Joe Fernandez, MaryAnn Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Ed Bell, Patricia Martinez Rutherford and Michael Lujan. (USDA/Forest Service photo by…
#Watershed, #WildfireCrisisStrategy, #Water
Water experts convene in Romania
Reconnecting Rivers workshop participants visit barrier in upper Vâlsan River, Romania. USDA Forest Service photo by Kelsey Aho.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The USDA Forest Service International Programs office recently collaborated with the American engineering firm Inter-Fluve to support a two-day “…
#InternationalPrograms, #InternationalForestry, #Water, #Freshwater
Alaska’s first Community Forest Program Grant will protect watershed, create new park
Community Forest Program Grants protect predominantly forested areas such as the hillside of the proposed Potter Marsh Watershed Park, which contains streams and wetlands that flow into Potter Marsh. Photo courtesy Carl Johnson.
ALASKA—On the southern edge of Anchorage lies Potter Marsh, a…
#Community, #Water, #Watershed, #Alaska
New tool identifies opportunities to protect, enhance America's waterways
Aerial view of a riparian buffer zone along a river. Photo courtesy Buffering America’s Waterways website.
WISCONSIN—The USDA Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service jointly developed a robust interactive map to prioritize waterway enhancement in the contiguous…
#Water, #Watershed, riparian
Planting seeds of prevention
A custom seed mix created to reseed a fuel break on the Pine Valley Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest. (USDA Forest Service photo by Lindsey Winkel)
In a large climate-controlled warehouse in central Utah, hundreds of thousands of pounds of seed in white feed bags are stacked to…