Aug 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Some Texas landowners may be eligible for funding to help with prescribed burning costs on private lands. Now through Sept. 28, 2018, Texas A&M Forest Service is accepting grant applications to cover prescribed fire costs for private landowners that use...
Jan 3, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently highlighted some of the agency’s accomplishments during 2017 to improve the productivity, uses, and sustainability of national forests and grasslands. “Our accomplishments this year...
Sep 25, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has announced that federal and state forest management officials signed a Good Neighbor Authority agreement, a tool to improve forest health, including efforts to suppress the unprecedented southern pine beetle epidemic that includes nearly...
Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
The USDA Forest Service and the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) have signed a Good Neighbor Authority master agreement that provides a framework for cooperative efforts that enhance national forestlands and their watersheds. With this agreement, the two...
Jul 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
Western wildfires are the headline grabbers, but forests in the eastern United States are also fire-dependent and increasingly at risk because of fire exclusion, according to a researcher at Penn State University. “Many people have been lulled into believing that it...