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Chairman Brady, Republican Leaders Lay Out a #BetterWay to Fight Poverty (US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means) ... WASHINGTON, D.C ... .. ... Because at the end of the day, for a government that measures how many red-cockaded woodpeckers we have, how many toilets are in homes, how much beer content is in ale - why aren't we measuring the lives of families who want to escape poverty? Why aren't we measuring how well we do that? And so we're going to change that as well ... Thank you.' ... U.S....

Celebrate July 4th at the National Archives in DC and Across the Nation (NARA - National Archives and Records Administration)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
Collect autographs Make cockades Listen to stories of our patriotic past Make colonial-style wigs and dress in period clothing Sign the Declaration of Independence Write with a quill pen Set your name in type Taste American Heritage® Chocolate in the Visitor Orientation Plaza Meet Revolutionary figures Abigail and John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Ned Hector, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington between noon and 4 p.m....

When conservation planning goes awry, species in danger

Edit Naples Daily News 02 Jun 2016
Recently, nine landowners in eastern Collier County's Rural Lands Stewardship Area (RLSA) submitted a draft multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to the U.S ... The permit will allow the landowners, in the process of developing 45,000 acres in the RLSA, to "take" nine endangered or threatened species, including the Florida panther, crested Caracara, red-cockaded woodpecker, scrub jay, Florida bonneted bat and wood stork ... ....

Best Kept Secrets: Day Trip Edition | Asheville

Edit The News & Observer 29 May 2016
There are times when you head out into the woods, hoping for a little one-on-one time with nature, that you find yourself bumping into lots of people ... http.//nando.com/wharrie ... 150 ... The Neusiok Trail in Croatan National Forest passes through cypress swamps, hardwood forests, longleaf pine savannahs and shrubby bogs, and offers the chance to see wild turkeys, black bears, bald eagles, alligators and red-cockaded woodpeckers ... Information ... ....

Secretary Jewell Announces $10 Million for Projects to Increase Wildfire Resilience Across America and Calls on Congress to Fix Wildfire Suppression Fund (US Department of the Interior)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. US Department of the Interior). Date. May 24, 2016. Contact ... Longleaf Pine - South Atlantic ($980,000) - Located in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina and Virginia, the project uses prescribed burning to help restore resiliency in the fire-adapted Longleaf Pine ecosystem, benefitting the red-cockaded woodpecker and other species listed as threatened or endangered under state and federally preservation laws ... Forest Service....

10 magical places saved by endangered species

Edit Treehugger 20 May 2016
In our efforts to save animals at risk of extinction, we've saved some extraordinary places as well ... 10 Extraordinary Places Saved by the Endangered Species Act ... 1 ... 3 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... There are 29 species that depend on longleaf pine forests that have been granted Endangered Species Act protections, including endangered red cockaded woodpecker and gopher tortoise are keystone species that are essential to the survival of dozens of other species. 8....

Conservationists consider legal options to fight seismic testing for oil in Big Cypress National Preserve

Edit Naples Daily News 08 May 2016
Burnett Oil Co ... Before it can start seismic testing, the company must formally agree to follow various measures meant to lessen environmental damage. They include working around colonies of wading birds and nests of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers, using existing trails and roads when possible and sending monitors ahead of the seismic testing trucks to look for gopher tortoises, Eastern indigo snakes and burrowing owls ... ....

Eglin’s environmental team named best in DOD (USAF - United States Air Force)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
(Source. USAF - United States Air Force) EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) --. Eglin's environmental team won the Defense Department's top environmental prize, earning the 2016 Secretary of Defense Environmental Quality Team award ... Gen. Chris Azzano, the 96th TW commander ... The team consists of four separate sections ... They also successfully amended Eglin's red-cockaded woodpecker programmatic biological assessment and obtained U.S ... (noodl....

Environmental Team named Best in DoD (Eglin Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
(Source. Eglin Air Force Base) Environmental Team named Best in DoD. Posted 5/3/2016 Updated 5/3/2016Email story Print story. by Mike Spaits. Team Eglin Public Affairs ... Gen ... They also successfully amended Eglin's red-cockaded woodpecker Programmatic Biological Assessment and obtained USFWS concurrence on a reduced requirement for the labor-intense manual preparation of active cavity-nesting trees before prescribed fire is applied ... (noodl....

Army Museum honors women at war

Edit Stars and Stripes 27 Apr 2016
FORT LEE, Va. — It reads like a John le Carré novel. A young woman dresses as a man, enlists in the Army and engages in combat. Later, she becomes a spy, repeatedly crossing enemy lines disguised as an Irish peddler and a black laundress, among other identities. Sarah Emma Edmonds fought for the Union during the Civil War. Her fascinating story is one of many I discovered at the U.S ...   U.S ... 2100 A ... 407-409 Cockade Alley, Petersburg ... ....

U.S. Army Women's Museum honors women at war

Edit Stars and Stripes 27 Apr 2016
FORT LEE, Va. — It reads like a John le Carré novel. A young woman dresses as a man, enlists in the Army and engages in combat. Later, she becomes a spy, repeatedly crossing enemy lines disguised as an Irish peddler and a black laundress, among other identities. Sarah Emma Edmonds fought for the Union during the Civil War. Her fascinating story is one of many I discovered at the U.S ...   U.S ... 2100 A ... 407-409 Cockade Alley, Petersburg ... ....

Help plan the future of Platt Branch Wildlife and Environmental Area (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). News Release. Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Media contact. Diane Hirth, 850-410-5291; Gary Morse, 863-648-3852. A 10-year plan for the Platt Branch Wildlife and Environmental Area will be presented at a public hearing in Highlands County on Thursday, May 5 ... The WEA is home to threatened and endangered species such as the gopher tortoise, Florida scrub jay and red-cockaded woodpecker....

Kansas City Royals players pose for 3D pictures for MLB video game

Edit The News & Observer 25 Apr 2016
Only nine percent of bird species are cooperative breeders, including the American crow and the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker of the Sandhills/Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune areas ... very chatty ... Red-cockaded woodpeckers “treat as kin anybody that was there in the (family) territory when they were hatched out.” said Jeff Walters, a Virginia Institute of Technology ornithologist who has studied them for more than 30 years ... i ... ....
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