Items Tagged with 'forest'

The Forest Service is providing $20 million for research into new technologies that can help restore degraded forests, grasslands, and watersheds.

Foreign holdings of U.S. land increased by 2.4 million acres in 2020, with 40% of the growth occurring in just three states, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, according to a new Agriculture Department report. But these holdings are still a relatively small share of U.S. farmland.

California’s statewide office of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded $319,000 in conservation innovation grants that will address soil health and carbon storage on rangelands, tillage management for rice, and the economics of soil health and water management.

In this opinion piece, Tom Martin with American Forest Foundation, calls on Secretary Vilsack to help scale forest carbon programs across the country.

Many farmers, ranchers and forest owners are as concerned about the government response to climate change as they are about the problem itself. But, if the US is going to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, we are going to need the help of agriculture and forestry.

Today, I want to talk about South Africa. I have been there, although not recently. It is good farm country.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2017 – A bicameral pair of hearings mere hours apart both came to the same conclusion: More needs to be done to make sure wildfires are adequately addressed.