In a survey released Tuesday, 60 percent of the full-time wildland firefighters responding said they would retire or otherwise cut back their fire management roles for the upcoming fire season.
The two largest groups said they would either make themselves less available for fire assignments (36 percent) or decline to serve as incident commanders (23 percent.)
Former U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth says he largely supports the amount of acreage targeted by a Clinton-era ban on road construction in national forests.
The U.S. has shown less willingness than other WTO members to change its position on agriculture. Now a complicated web of issues and interests is being spun inside the U.S. that could affect the WTO agriculture negotiations.
FRANKLINTON, N.C. -- Enzymes culled from the microbial soups of the earth were mixed with plant scraps inside a laboratory here, fermented into a sugary liquid, dumped into a beaker and presented Thursday morning to the presidential nose.
"Would you like to smell it?" asked Novozymes laboratory technician Erin Quattrini.
This paper lays out some of the ways agricultural policies help shape which, and in what relative quantities, foods are produced and consumed in the United States. It also identifies some important contributing factors to negative trends in overweight and obesity.
Within the past year, an important new debate has taken shape, though it's not likely to be the focus of any forthcoming presidential debates as such. It is likely, however, to distinguish liberal from centrist thinking for decades to come.
