U.S. Department of Agriculture Sites Related to Forestry

National Rural Development Partnership - brings together federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as the private sector,  for profit and non-profit sectors, to work in partnership for the improvement of rural America's communities.

USDA CSREES - The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service provides the focus to advance a global system of research, extension, and higher education in the food and agricultural sciences and related environmental and human sciences to benefit people, communities, and the Nation.

USDA Economic Research Service - provides economic analysis on efficiency, efficacy, and equity issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural development to improve public and private decisionmaking.

USDA Farm Service Agency - ensures the well-being of American agriculture, the environment and the American public through efficient and equitable farm programs.

USDA Forest Service - achieves quality land management under the sustainable multiple-use management concept to meet the diverse needs of the people.

USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory - serves the public as the nation's leading wood research institute.  Research concentrates on pulp and paper products, housing and structural uses of wood, wood preservation, wood and fungi identification.

USDA National Agricultural Library - is one one four national libraries in the United States.   It is a major international source for agriculture and related information.

USDA National Agricultural Library Rural Information Center - provides information and referral services.

USDA National Agroforestry Center - accelerates the development and application of agroforestry technologies to attain more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable land-use systems.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - works in partnership with the American people to conserve and sustain natural resources.

USDA Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources Program - provides technical information on how-to grow seedlings, and links to other organizations and individuals with similar interests.

USDA Forest Service Center for Urban Forest Research - ecoSmart is a Web-based software program designed to evaluate the economic trade-offs between different landscape practices on residential parcels.

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