Free site visits and technical assistance is being offered to landowners throughout Jefferson and Harrison counties by Rural Action, a regional community development organization. Rural Action works ...

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In an election year with many uncertainties, Congress finally passed all 12 Fiscal Year 2024 funding bills, allowing for the continued operation of vital programs that touch the lives of 355 million ...

ABSTRACT. Rural forests are characterized by different levels of formal and nonformal appropriation by rural communities who have generally managed, shaped, or rebuilt these forest formations over ...

President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Climate calls for tackling climate change in partnership with rural America’s farmers, ranchers and forest owners – key constituencies that have often been ...

The Biden administration has set its climate change policy agenda, with a broad call to engage rural America. But one approach lacking a laser focus is on incentivizing rural forest owners to use ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A groundbreaking initiative to safeguard America’s forests and revitalize rural economies has been unveiled by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack. Backed by ...

Rural forest communities are in the middle of an ongoing battle to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Communities Act, highlighting the urgent need for a more reliable and equitable funding ...

Over several decades in the past century, city populations swelled as Americans moved away from rural forests. Now the forests are moving farther away from Americans. A new study of satellite images ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post Over several decades in the past century, city populations swelled as Americans moved away from rural forests. Now the ...

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the ...