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Agricultural Weather and Drought Update – 7/26/12

July 26, 2012 Brad Rippey, USDA Meteorologist, Office of the Chief Economist

During the week ending July 24, 2012, the portion of the contiguous United States in drought inched upward to 64%, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The Drought of 2012 continues to hit some of the nation’s most important agricultural regions especially hard, with more than seven-eighths of the...

Conservation

Prescribed Burning and Mechanical Thinning Pose Little Risk to Forest Ecology

July 26, 2012 Sherri Eng, Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

There’s hot debate over whether or not to conduct prescribed burning and mechanical thinning (the manual removal of trees) in our nation’s forests. Supporters of these fuels reduction methods, which remove highly flammable undergrowth, argue that they help lower the severity of wildfires. Meanwhile...

Conservation Forestry