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USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
Celebrating one year since the Urban and Community Forestry grants were announced!
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Forest Landowner Support Funding Opportunity through the Inflation Reduction Act
Forest Landowner Support provides competitive grant opportunities to entities and organizations for delivering technical and financial assistance to private forest landowners—including Tribes, underserved landowners, and smaller-acreage landowners.
Grants are available through a series of funding opportunities outlined below. Applicant eligibility varies by funding opportunity. Individual landowners are not eligible to directly apply for these funding opportunities.
Deadline for applications for these opportunities: September 30, 2024.
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Fire Hire
The USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region Fire and Aviation Management program is in the process of hiring permanent positions starting August 24. Click on the link below for more information.
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Fall Colors in the Eastern Region National Forests
The most colorful time of the year is fast approaching, and we at the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region are excited to see our forests light up with brilliant displays of color across the landscape!
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Bats, more than just a pretty face
As land managers, the USDA Forest Service recognizes the role it plays in providing high-quality habitat to support remaining bat populations. Healthy forests provide better habitat for bats and improve their ability to survive.
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Eastern Region Sites of Civil Rights & Resistance Portal
The Forest Service is excited to share a brand-new tool called the Eastern Region Sites of Civil Rights & Resistance Portal to provide information about important historical Sites of Civil Rights and Resistance throughout the Region.
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Regional Connections
Regional Connections strives to tell the Forest Service’s stories across the Eastern Region and bring people closer to the places where they work, live, and play. In today’s world, information often comes in bits and pieces that flash past us too quickly.
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Urban Connections
The program aims to provide meaningful, nature-based educational programming and experiences that connect urban residents to the green spaces around them and their national forests.
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Forest Accomplishments Reports
Recreation fees provide and enhance recreation sites, facilities, and services. Visitors benefit directly from the fees they pay.
Features
New Pest Alert — Redbud Seed Beetle
USDA Forest Service’s Eastern Region Forest Health staff released a pest alert on redbud seed beetle, a native insect that feeds on the seeds of eastern redbud. Check out the alert to learn where the beetle is found, how to identify it and its impact on eastern redbud.
Delynn Lovelace receives Eastern Region’s 2024 Gifford Pinchot award
The USDA Forest Service Eastern Regional Office is pleased to announce that Delynn Lovelace is the 2024 recipient of Gifford Pinchot Excellence in Interpretation & Conservation Education award. Lovelace is a supervisory visitor information specialist at the Huron-Manistee National Forests, Huron Shores Ranger Station, Lumberman's Monument Visitor Center, and a certified interpretive planner with a prolific 34-year public service career.