Silent Cultural Symbols that Speak Volumes
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By Tom Fry, Western Conservation Director, American Forest Foundation
Tom Fry is the Western Conservation Director of the American Forest Foundation (AFF). AFF and the U.S. Forest Service hold a long-standing partnership in pursuit of protecting and conserving the important forest benefits that come from family and individually owned forest lands across the United States and ensuring the next generation of Americans understands and value forests for all the benefits they provide.
Guest Post by Hannah Ettema of the National Forest Foundation.
What lengths would you go to for the pursuit of science?
Regulations may be needed, but are they all we need? That was the common thread weaved through presentations by natural resource experts last week at USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum.
Authors: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education; Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior; Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Kathryn Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at the Department of Commerce, NOAA.
Cross-posted from the White House Blog