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for USDA NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife One out of every three acres in the U.S. is rangeland. Two-thirds of these are privately owned, mainly by ranchers who graze their livestock in the open country of the American West. Our rangelands produce premium beef, wool and dairy. But it’s the plants that feed these livestock that are the foundation for profitable agriculture in the West. But ranchers haven’t had a good way to measure how their grass is faring — until now. The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP), developed in partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Bu...

RAP is an online resource that provides data on vegetation trends across the West from the mid-1980s to the present.

UPPER GWYNEDD — The start of 2021 has brought a change to Upper Gwynedd's volunteer firefighter incentive program. The township commissioners voted unanimously on Jan. 19 to modify the township's incentive program to give the local fire department more control. "During this year's budget process, the board of commissioners changed the Upper Gwynedd Fire Department's stipend program, to a volunteer program retention allocation of $60,000," said commissioner Katherine Carter. - Advertisement - In 2018 the then-commissioners adopted a local incentive program creating an earned income tax...

A dismissal hearing that was scheduled for next week in the 2015 Pembroke triple homicide case was postponed in Christian Circuit Court Wednesday morning after a request was made by the defense to reschedule. Christian Martin, 52, appeared in Judge John Atkins’ court via Zoom while at the Christian County Jail while one of defense attorneys, Olivia Adams also appeared via Zoom. Adams, who spoke on behalf of Martin’s two other defense attorneys Tim Griffiths and Doug Moore, asked the judge to vacate the hearing that was scheduled for Dec. 14. The hearing was intended for the defense ...