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Opportunity Knocks in Alaska
NRCS special assistant to the Chief, Gerald Willis traveled to Alaska last week to learn about the natural resource development opportunities provided by the  the newly operational Port MacKenzie. The group of USDA and State representatives learned about the wood chip logging, manufacturing, and transporting processes of the new port. 


 

"Seasonal Workers" and NRCS Plant Materials Program Meet Demands of Farm Work
Located at 26 regional facilities or Plant Materials Centers (PMCs) across the nation, student interns or “seasonal” workers" as they often jokingly refer to themselves, perform an age-old-labor-intensive routine of agricultural work during the summer break. But the big difference with these young people is that they’re doing all this work willingly.

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USDA Signs Agreement with Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control, Inc.
USDA has signed an agreement with CPESC that will allow farmers and ranchers who need technical assistance with soil erosion and sediment control and storm water quality to obtain that assistance from certified technical service providers (TSPs) or third-party vendors.

 

Prairie Bird Conservation through Range Management
With funds from NRCS and a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program professional development grant, the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) is helping reverse prairie bird population decline by working with Federal agency staff and landowners to better identify critical species and amend land practices to better suit rare bird species.
 

Plant Distribution Update Module: An APHIS and NRCS Partnership
For the past several years, the NRCS National Plant Data Center and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Center for Plant Health Science Technology's Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory have collaborated to improve the distributional data on the PLANTS Database making it more useful for risk analysis. One of the major projects in this effort is the development of an online  Distribution Update (DU) module for the submission of new State and county plant distribution data.

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