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Forest Service Features</h1><div style="text-align: center;">
Early March - 2024<br>
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<em>Woodsy Owl’s six eclipse tips are to know before you go, be considerate of others, prevent wildfires, wear eye protection, look around you, and give a hoot – don’t pollute! (USDA Forest Service illustration)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
Woodsy Owl’s Solar Eclipse Tips: For a fun, safe, and environmentally friendly viewing experience on public lands</h1><p>
Are you excited, too? A total solar eclipse will cross the United States on April 8, 2024, in a path from Texas through Maine and passing through five national forests. The path of totality – the area where the moon will completely block out the sunlight – will draw millions of people to experience it.<br>
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<em>The Antelope Fire strikes northeastern Calif. in 2021 (USDA Forest Service photo by Troy Parrish, Operations Section Chief, Klamath National Forest)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
Mechanical thinning, prescribed fire or both? Study shows fuel treatments improve wildfire outcomes</h1><p>
Sometimes out of adversity comes wisdom. That was a lesson Pacific Southwest Research Station Ecologist Eric Knapp learned after the 2021 Antelope Fire burned through long-term research plots in northeastern California.<br>
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<em>Matthew Rau and his mother, Marcia Andre, share a special bond that includes their love of natural resources and dedication to public service. (Photo courtesy of Matthew Rau)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
A family fire legacy: Work, life and the evolution of firefighter culture</h1><p>
Matthew Rau was five years old when his family moved into government housing at a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service ranger station. Some of his earliest memories are waking up in the mornings and seeing wildland firefighters exercising around the compound. He studied their work ethic and camaraderie and knew from that young age he wanted to be part of it. It was his path.<br>
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Now, amidst the adrenaline-fueled rush of managing wildfires, Rau acknowledges a quieter struggle—a struggle against the mental toll of the job. For him and countless other firefighters, the rapid transitions inherent in their work can create unique challenges. <a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs=0fd27b87dc2f059772dc24477b1795f5340f6d2df1851b2f10a627fecdf6a792a8c829f4bf261a10426c10c3f81f45c859adbcd5ee113620" style="color:#0176d3;text-decoration:none;" title="Read more...">Read more...</a><br>
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<em>Black salamander with a yellow back sits on a leaf. (USDA Forest Service photo.)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
Extreme wildfires take a toll on California wildlife</h1><p>
Extreme wildfires tore through California, burning more than 4.2 million acres from 2020 through 2021. The fires were like none ever recorded in modern history. Their devastation of human communities was well-documented, but their toll on wildlife was largely unknown.<br>
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Forest Service scientists made it their mission to find out. Their efforts focused on how wildlife contended with extreme wildfires in the Sierra Nevada, southern Cascades, and Klamath Mountains. <a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs=0fd27b87dc2f05977f445544f123315c77dfb4841d6c07771eb13be2c36001199fa23db5f65c98e83ae23adf104b4c5342120039125ad36a" style="color:#0176d3;text-decoration:none;" title="Read more...">Read more...</a><br>
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<em>Ramshorn Basin in full “green up” during the spring. (Photo Credit: USDA Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
The Shoshone National Forest is a first among forests</h1><p>
The heart of Wyoming has a special and sacred place called the Shoshone National Forest. Boasting a rich tapestry of history and an array of breathtaking sites the Shoshone beckons sightseers from all over the country and the world. This pristine wilderness, established as one of the first national forest in the United States was actually designated as public lands many years before the US Forest Service was even established in 1905. <a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs=0fd27b87dc2f059733db767c2c70307ea908ad423a932b1e739f285d5ea0584cc2a3ac68769480e6c8307fdd34f8c6a230e1dcec13162342" style="color:#0176d3;text-decoration:none;" title="Read more...">Read more...</a><br>
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<em>Avalanche debris on the Boise National Forest near Yellow Pine, Idaho on April 16, 2019. (USDA Forest Service photo by Todd Leeds)</em></p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
Forecasting avalanches: Forest Service avalanche specialists help keep us informed and safe</h1><p>
You know about weather forecasters. What about avalanche forecasters?</p><p>
As the number of new people in backcountry continues to grow, the need for Avalanche Centers around the country to increase avalanche awareness, provide avalanche forecasts, education, and data, and reduce avalanche impacts has become more important than ever. This is especially important in the transition from winter to spring – when avalanches are more likely to occur. <a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs=0fd27b87dc2f05976c6f30bf8782f41dc9596f17a3f9498ec7a747391a6669f6e016077f15dc07f90bd9307c9799362b28ab74a3a2701ca8" style="color:#0176d3;text-decoration:none;" title="Read more...">Read more...</a><br>
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Left: A miner using harmful chemicals without adequate personal protective equipment. Right: A small scale mine near Lake Chivero, outside Harare (<em>USDA Forest Service photos</em>)</p></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper"><tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px; " class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner"><h1 style="color:#1C4A19;font-size:16px;text-align:center;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">
There’s an app for that! Community monitoring for responsible mining in Zimbabwe</h1><p>
In biodiversity-rich areas of Zimbabwe, women, men, and even children venture into national parks and other protected areas to dig and sluice for gold, platinum, and diamonds. The work is associated with unsafe working conditions; the illegal use of mercury and cyanide, unrehabilitated pits, and environmental damage. Miners can fall sick, communities can lose drinking water, and the precious metals they unearth can contribute to and fund conflicts and corruption.<br>
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