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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced approximately $35 million in available funding to community-based and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and tribal entities that help historically underserved and veteran farmers and ranchers own and operate successful farms.

Knowing the signs of emotional immaturity may help you navigate relationships.

Central and Southern Oregon are bearing the brunt of an extensive drought that could bring early wildfire and more water shortages this summer.

More than 3.5 million hatchery salmon became casualties of recent flooding in Mason County.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a $1 billion investment in partnerships to support U.S climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.

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Cover crops offer agricultural producers a natural and inexpensive climate solution through their ability to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into soils.

Give your full attention. Don’t speak (until later). Share back what they’ve said. Ask open-ended questions.

in 2019 he began engineering the TerraTug, a four-wheel-drive contraption that is remote-control operated, can haul more than four times the volume of a wheelbarrow and runs on electricity

Even previously unaffected countries likely to see uncontrollable blazes, says study, which calls for shift to spending on prevention

They found that ignitions on Forest Service lands accounted for fewer than 25% of the most destructive wildfires

One of the big questions many leaders are facing now is: how can we meaningfully communicate, collaborate, and connect in a hybrid (or remote) environment?

“This is a big win for the policy in my legislation and for the people of rural Washington,” said Klicker, R-Walla Walla. “Although the amendment does not include a short-term moratorium on the siting of alternative energy facilities, it does bring this issue to the local level and allows the primary stakeholders to be involved.”

Washington lawmakers are considering delegating broad powers to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to write salmon-protection rules, requiring all publicly funded projects to have a "net ecological gain."

"Agriculture is often implicated with bee declines," he said. "That's sometimes true, but we're not the Midwest. Here in Oregon, farmers are doing a good job overall, and specialty crops are actually contributing to many diverse types of bees."

Retrieving struvite from wastewater reduces the amount of phosphorus entering the environment, replaces mined phosphorus

The resulting Private Forest Accord deal, signed in October 2021, would amend Oregon’s Forest Practices Act to expand riparian buffers, tighten protections against landslides and erosion, support small woodland owners, and improve the rulemaking process going forward

The number of people with autism entering the workforce in the next 10 years and beyond is on the rise

The so-called megadrought that is afflicting the American West is the worst in 1,200 years, according to a study published this week.

Washington’s statewide snowpack is sitting at 99% of average for this time of year, but according to NRCS the snowpack is dwindling.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture announcement on Jan. 18 adds nearly $3 billion more to the nation's forest restoration efforts and fire reduction