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Forest Service begins revision of Chugach plan

...guesses and try to be accommodating to what we think are the interests of the public." Related links: http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/chugach/home/?cid=stelprdb5410263 ? ? ? Rashah McChesney can be reached at rashah.mcchesney...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-02-24
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USDA funded program stitches bond between local farms and restaurants

Cyndi and Craig Ramm opened the Corner Cafe in Soldotna not long ago. They said they want to use more than 75 percent organic ingredients and, when possible, buy local produce. "We don't want to support a big company out of Seattle," Cyndi Ramm said.

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-01-21/from-plow-to-plate
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New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools

...foods around campus a "loophole" that undermines the taxpayer money that helps pay for the healthier subsidized lunches."USDA's proposed nutrition standards are a critical step in closing that loophole and in ensuring that our schools are places that...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/community/schools/2013-02-03/new-rules-aim-to-get-ri
Schools
KPBSD leading the state with school meals

...Eason said. "His program is leading the USDA meal programs in Alaska." Hamburg said...mission to properly deliver the millions of USDA school meals each year to eager Alaska students," Hamburg said. In January, the USDA released new regulations for school meal...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-02-06/kpbsd-leading-the-state-with-school-
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Blade Runner

...Department of Agriculture grant program that aided the purchases. The USDA's Renewable Energy for America Program targets small businesses...operations manager at AWI, said her firm has helped with about 20 USDA applications over the past few years for wind and solar projects...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2011-12-04/blade-runner
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Plot your best spring break by garden guide

...Fortunately, experts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have those answers, determined, in part, through use of a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone). The map, which divides North America into...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/032311/foo_804225569.shtml
Food
A 'Rosa Parks' for our generation

...Shirley Sherrod. This African American woman lost her job with the USDA Monday after a TV network showed video of her describing how...air and praised Ms. Sherrod as helping to save his farm. * USDA chief Tom Vilsack apologized and asked Ms. Sherrod to come back...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/072510/ope_683114759.shtml
Opinion
Conservation service helps buy high tunnel garden enclosures

...to go for Alaska food growers. But the Alaska branch of the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service offers a cost share program...It's like a green house, without the electricity," said USDA Alaska state agronomist Helen Denniston. "It's just a frame...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/081010/new_693151829.shtml
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Cuts to food stamps could leave thousands hungry

...millions of acres of land, according to the USDA. SNAP makes up about 80 percent of the...received food stamps, according to the USDA. The elderly, disabled adults and single...43 percent on housing, according to the USDA. This may be why North Star Methodist...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-06-29/cuts-to-food-stamps-could-leave-thou
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Nikiski Clubhouse grateful for successful summer

...tutor we were able to offer 10 weeks of reading and math to our members, along with a variety of enrichment programs. Through a USDA grant members were provided a free healthy breakfast and lunch. I would like to thank our dedicated and caring staff that is...

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