The Trump administration has filed a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a regulation that restricts road construction, road reconstruction and timber harvesting on roughly 45 million acres of National Forest System land across the country, including approximately 6.4 million acres in Montana.
The United States Department of Agriculture is nearing a full repeal of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects millions of acres of virgin forestland nationwide. In Virginia, if the rule is repealed it would open up an estimated 400,000 acres of forest, largely across the Shenandoah Valley region, to development. The Trump Administration […]
While no new cases of New World screwworm have been detected in New Mexico for more than a month, the parasitic fly “definitely is headed this way,” and a widespread infection would quickly exhaust the state’s resources, the state’s top veterinarian told state lawmakers Tuesday.
State health officials announced Thursday that federal disaster-related food assistance is now available for Louisiana residents in areas affected by last month’s Tropical Storm Arthur. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or D-SNAP, benefits for eligible households affected by Arthur, a short-lived storm that spawned tornadoes and heavy rainfall […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana WIC participants will need to pick up a new electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card at their local WIC clinic before a statewide technology upgrade takes effect Aug. 1.
(The Center Square) – Taxpayers from North Carolina will be on the hook for a 5% benefit match of SNAP payment errors, according to the rate release from the USDA.
