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[Oregon Natural Resources Report] Oregon Natural Resources Report » Forest Policy Update: Congress ...: Forest Service Boss Appointed: Homer Lee Wilkes was named Agriculture Undersecretary for Nat. Resources””the job that oversees the embattled US Forest Service.  Wilkes is currently Mississippi State Conservationist, and former 28-year veteran of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).  Jay Jensen was also appointed as Deputy Undersecretary for Wilkes.  Jensen is supported by the forest industry for his experience, as director for Council of Western State Foresters and Western Forestry Leadership Coalition.  These Obama administration nominees will be watched closely by the forest industry.

[FS Today] East to West for 6/5/2009: Recreation and trail planner Marv Lang, Deschutes National Forest, got a very visible pat on the back when the Central Oregon Trail Alliance designated a new segment in the Phil’s Trail system as Marv’s Garden. “Usually, the rule is that you need to be dead at least five years to have a trail named after you,”

[NewWest Missoula] Obama Stuns with Forest Service Nominee | David Frey | Missoula ...: Now that man cannot burn in forests for myriad political and administrative reasons, across many governments and agencies, we grow fuel every year, and fuel is what makes fires. We are adamant about not removing fuel, as a Nation, in our Congress, by the all wise and wonderful NGOs of the trust fund and public employee payroll check off, and that means every year our forests have more to burn, burn with greater intensity, and we lose forests that will never be forests again.

[Newly Published Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA) - Encyclopedia of Earth: The poster is part of a collaborative project primarily between the USEPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory - Corvallis, OR., and TDEC’s Division of Water Pollution Control. Collaboration and consultation also occurred with the United States Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service (USFS), USEPA Region IV, and with other State of Tennessee agencies.

[V1 Magazine] V1 Magazine - Soil Data Goes Global: It's a partnership between the Natural Resources Conversation Service and West Virginia University. One of the primary goals of the Center is to research and develop technologies that will enable the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) to take full advantage of the potentials of geospatial technology to provide the most advanced and relevant soil information. 

[Newly Published Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Ecoregions of Utah (EPA) - Encyclopedia of Earth: The potential natural vegetation is, in order of increasing elevation and ruggedness, saltbush-greasewood, Great Basin sagebrush, juniper-pinyon woodland, and scattered western spruce-fir forest. In addition, tule marshes occur locally, especially along the Great Salt Lake shoreline.

[All Publications Available] Forest Peak Research Natural Area: Guidebook Supplement 33: Salem District Office, 1717 Fabry Road SE, Salem, OR 97306. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. . 2006. Soil maps from Benton County, Oregon. http:// websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/. ...

[Oregon Weather] Oregon snowpack drifts a bit below the average - Oregon Weather ...: According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.

[Colorado Radio - 94 KIX - Real Country KUBC - The Blast!] Colorado Radio - 94 KIX - Real Country KUBC - The Blast! » Blog ...: The statewide snowpack on May 1 had decreased to 90 percent of average after reaching a high of 109 percent of average on April 19th. Although temperatures have not been notably warmer than average during late April, there has been speculation that this year’s snow cover, which has been coated with numerous dust storms, will melt quicker than usual as solar radiation is absorbed into the snowpack rather than reflected back into the atmosphere.

[Watts Up With That?] California Proclaims Drought - Governator demands action « Watts ...: I remember seeing on the Climate Audit site a rather long time ago a reference to a paper that used carbon dating of now-swamped tree stumps in Lake Tahoe and possibly other Sierra lakes to document extremely long periods of drought in California in the past that have dropped the lake levels considerably and by considerably, I mean by tens of feet. If you have ever seen Lake Tahoe, that represents a huge amount of water.

[NewWest.Net All Headlines] Northern Rockies Wilderness Bill Back in Congress | Bill Schneider ...: If you have an inkling of what Tesla taught about creating electrical grids, you know how limiting and senseless such a restriction would be in the real world of multiple sources of electrical power to grids, and how much conservation occurs by creating those grids to shuttle excess power from many sources to where it can be used instead of shutting down hydro power generation or other renewables.

[The Swamp] The Swamp: Land of Lincoln's earmarks: Our lawmakers go shopping: IPHCA will use these funds to modernize the health record systems of its members in order to promote efficiency, improve patient care, and prevent medical errors. This effort will be based on the highly successful I-Net system implemented by IPHCA that has provided a cost-effective method for Illinois health centers to implement a state-of-the-art electronic practice management system that includes standardized billing and accounting systems to promote management efficiencies while enhancing the experience of the patient.

[NewWest Columbia Gorge] Northern Rockies Wilderness Bill Back in Congress | Bill Schneider ...: When you start at the Canadian border and go to the south end of Hells Canyon and further, in a one size fits all Big Dubbya Wilderness, surrounded by litigating lawyers riding herd on the hoi poloi, the agencies, inflicting their legalese and cats o' nine lawsuits on the masses, you know the mad ones will want to WFU the whole of it just because they can.

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[Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News] Scientist says jackrabbits are gone from the greater Yellowstone ...: A little bit away from Yellowstone but about 1 year ago while driving to Grand Canyon and driving at night thru Nevada the Jackrabbits were so thick It was literally like playing jack rabbit pin ball, fortunately I lost and did not actually hit any but not thru their lack of trying. Anyway this was in the middle of March and none of the rabbits were white phase or do I ever recall seeing such in all my life of living in the west.

[Woodworking Blogs at LumberJocks.com] What do you do for a living? - by Zuki | LumberJocks.com ...: Holmes) and so”¦traveled all over Alaska, Washington and Oregon for five years, the best years of my career for sure, bears, bison, salmon so thick you could literally walk across the stream on their back”¦it was great! Not generally gonna get rich in Forestry, but I like what I do, and it gives me time to work in the wood shop which I LOVE to do!~so it all works out in the end.

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