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October 08, 2009
Federal Press Releases (U.S. Department of Agriculture):
USDA - USDA
Conducting Fruit Chemical Use Survey (Oct 1, 2009)
USDA - Agriculture
Secretary Vilsack Highlights New Direction And
Vision For America's Forests In Boise (Sep 29, 2009)
USDA - Ambitious
Partnership Between Vail Resorts, The National
Forest Foundation and the USDA Forest Service Aims
to Comprehensively Restore Forest Health, Improve
Water Quality after Colorado's Largest Forest Fire (Sep 28, 2009)
See
Initiative
site:
Treasured Landscapes: The Hayman Restoration Partnership - Working
Together for Healthy Forests and Clean Water
Hayman Restoration Partnership.
Goals include: "The
restoration effort will include riparian restoration
to help reduce sediment loads, enhancement
and relocation of trails, reforestation, noxious
weed eradication, native plant and wildlife habitat
restoration, and climate change mitigation and
adaptation strategies. The objective will be to complete
this restoration work by 2012, the 10th anniversary of
the Hayman fire."
USDA - Agriculture
Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding For Research On Food Security
In Northeast
USDA - APHIS - User
Fee Increases For Certain Commercial Vehicles And International
Air Passengers Delayed (Sep 30, 2009)
Note: This
action is necessary to ensure adequate funding to
continue these important inspection activities that
help prevent the introduction of plant and animal
pests and diseases into the United States.
USDA, APHIS - USDA
Proposes To Amend The Animal Welfare Act To Require Itineraries
From Traveling Exhibitors (Oct 1, 2009)
USDA, APHIS - USDA
Releases Environmental Assessment For A Biological
Control Agent For Japanese Beetle (Sep 28, 2009)
USDA, APHIS - USDA
Makes Determination Of Animal Health Status Of
Hungary (Sep 24, 2009)
USDA, APHIS - USDA
Makes Determination Of Animal Health Status Of Saxony, Germany (Sep 23,
2009)
USDA, APHIS - USDA
Issues Notice Of Determination On Animal Health Status Of Two
Counties In England (Sep 23,
2009)
USDA, ARS - Beneficial
Nocturnal Insects Help Combat Pests in Texas (Oct 6,
2009)
USDA, ARS - Livestock
Can Help Rangelands Recover from Fires (Sep 30, 2009)
USDA, ARS - Springtime
Sheep Grazing Helps Control Leafy Spurge (Sep 29, 2009)
USDA, ARS - ARS
Scientist Helps Craft National Academies Report on Alternative
Fuels (Sep 25, 2009)
See Report:
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass:
Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental
Impacts
National Academies Press.
USDA, ARS - The
Field Narrows for Cover Crops in Biofuel Production (Sep 23, 2009)
USDA, ARS - New
Pest-Resistant Habanero Joins Peck of ARS-Created Peppers (Sep 22, 2009)
USDA, ARS - How
Much Corn Stover can a Corn Grower Pick? (Sep 21, 2009)
USDA, ARS Magazine - Working After Hours - A Nighttime View of Insect Predation
(Oct 2009 - Vol. 57, No. 9)
USDA< ARS Magazine -
Closing In on a Citrus
Killer - Huanglongbing, the Citrus Greening Disease
(Oct 2009 - Vol. 57, No. 9)
USDA, ARS Magazine - Hardy New Corn Lines Resist
Toxic Fungi
(Oct 2009 - Vol. 57, No. 9)
USDA, ARS Magazine - Why Rye Cover Crops
Are Great Natural Weed Killers
(Oct 2009 - Vol. 57, No. 9)
USDA, ARS Magazine - Bacterium Identified
as Prime Suspect in Zebra Chip Case
(Oct 2009 - Vol. 57, No. 9)
USDA, FS - Mighty
Giants (American Chestnut) Survive First Year In
The Woods (Sep 23, 2009)
See:
American Chestnut Restoration
Project)
USDA, FS - Forest
Service Web-Based Tool Helps Manage Environmental
Risk (Sep 22, 2009))
USDA, FS - Northwestern
United States Could Face More Tamarisk Invasion By
Century's End (Sep 15, 2009)
USDA, NRCS - Establishing
and Managing Switchgrass as a Biomass Energy Crop (Oct 1, 2009)
USDA, NRCS - NRCS Requests Public Comments on Methods to Speed
Natural Resources Conservation Work: Comment Period Closes Sep 11, 2009 (Jul 29, 2009)
* See our Federal Press Releases section for more resources.
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