Posted: Wednesday, May 1
MOSCOW, Idaho – A new website is taking root to help forest owners and others comply with Idaho forestry best management practices designed to protect water quality and the environment.
University of Idaho Extension Forestry and the Idaho Department of Lands developed the website, www.idahoforestrybmps.org. It explains the importance of best management practices or BMPs toprotecting watersh...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Natural Resources | Extension | Forestry
Posted: Friday, April 19
McCall Outdoor Science School is hosting summer courses. Spend a week of exploring the rivers, lakes and mountains of the northern Rocky Mountains that surround McCall, Idaho. Residential and field science expeditions for middle and high school students as well as fun, adventure-filled day camps for younger students are available. For more information: www.uidaho.edu/cnr/moss/k-12program/summerpro...
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Natural Resources | Faculty and Staff Announcement
Posted: Thursday, March 7
MOSCOW, Idaho — With the market for green products on the rise, the need for employees with skills and experiences in developing and marketing green products is becoming critical. The University of Idaho’s recently renamed College of Natural Resources Renewable Materials program is uniquely suited to develop future professionals to meet this need.
“This is an exciting, new oppo...
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Natural Resources | Forest Products | Renewable Materials | Forest Products | News Release | Forest Products | Renewable Materials | Forestry | environment | Tom Gorman | Renewable Materials | Renewable Materials | CNR
Posted: Wednesday, February 13
The University of Idaho Range students, faculty and alumni garnered numerous awards at the annual International Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City last week.
Karen Launchbaugh, professor of rangeland ecology and management and director of the U-Idaho Rangeland Center, was honored with the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Range Science Education Council an...
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Natural Resources | Acknowledgements
Posted: Friday, February 1
MOSCOW, Idaho – A Seattle couple has donated $3.3 million to the University of Idaho to benefit faculty, students and facilities. The gift, from husband and wife Tom Alberg and Judi Beck, will establish the university’s first fully funded endowed chair, a pair of graduate student fellowships, establish a separate faculty excellence fund and pay for costs associated with the constructio...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Natural Resources | Anthony S. Davis | Research | News Release | Donor | Funding | Fellowships | Duane Nellis | Kurt Pregitzer | Advancement | CNR
Posted: Wednesday, January 23
By Jill Maxwell
The protected areas network within the continental United States is often viewed as one of the country’s best tools for securing vegetation communities and the species they support into the future.
Yet, the current network of protected U.S. lands does not fully capture the entire range of the country’s vegetation communities or ecological systems. The failure to ade...
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Natural Resources | Research | News Release | Soil