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How Do You Like Your Shrimp: Steamed, Fried, Arctic-Deep Frozen?

May 09, 2023 Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications

Americans love their shrimp. No matter how you eat them, by pounds consumed, the popularity of these delectable little morsels ranks well ahead of salmon and more than doubles that of canned tuna.

Research and Science

Firefighting Cattle: Targeted Grazing Makes Firebreaks in Cheatgrass

October 01, 2020 Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service

Cattle grazing on a nearly half mile wide targeted strip of cheatgrass near Beowawe, Nevada, created a firebreak that helped limit a rangeland fire to just 54 acres this past August compared to rangeland fires that more commonly race across thousands of acres of the Great Basin.

Research and Science

Transparent Wood Could Be the Window of the Future

October 01, 2020 Amy Androff, Forest Products Laboratory and posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, USDA Forest Service

Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future? Trees replacing the clear pane glass in your windows is not a work of science fiction. It’s happening now.

Forestry