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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Capitol Hill veteran Kristin Sleeper and former Idaho Department of Lands Director Tom Schultz will hold positions at USDA focused on forest management, wildfire prevention and natural resource conservation.
The forestry title, often overlooked in the farm bill, figures to play a prominent role this time around, given the potential of trees to harbor significant amounts of carbon and the Biden administration’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
The No. 2-ranking Senate Republican is urging the Senate’s farm bill negotiators to consider tightening food stamp work requirements in line with provisions in the House-passed version.
Our 154 national forests received some much needed attention and repair in the recently enacted Omnibus spending legislation signed into law by the president on March 16, 2018.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - The House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday passed the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017, which the panel says “solves the problem of ‘fire-borrowing.”
