1 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA 2 USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK 99503, USA; and Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 80271, USA 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4 School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durha...

Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; * Bee Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, BARC-E, Beltsville, MD, USA; † Visual Sciences & ARC Centre for Molecular Genetics of Development, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ‡ Bee Power, L.P., Navasota, TX, USA; § Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylo...

1Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93648; 2formerly Research soil scientist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, currently Extension specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and 3formerly Agricultural engineer, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center...

The USDA’s Food Security program’s goal is to estimate the number of people in the United States who are food secure, and food insecure with or without hungry. In order to estimate the number of individuals in the country who are food insecure, we must first be able to classify individuals into one of the food security levels, or at least be able to find the probabilities of class membership fo...

All inspectors or graders are forbidden during the period of their respective appointments or licenses to take an active part in political management or in political campaigns. Political activities in city, county, State, or national elections, whether primary or regular, or in behalf of any party or candidate, or any measure to be voted upon, is prohibited. This applies to all appointees, incl...

Objective: To examine the prevalence and identify correlates of food insecurity among students attending a rural university in Oregon. Methods: Cross-sectional non-probability survey of 354 students attending a midsize rural university in Oregon during May 2011. Main outcome was food insecurity measured using the USDA Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form. Socioeconomic and...

35 * Based on a report by the author under the title, “Improving Fire Hazard Assessment at the UrbanWildland Interface: Case Study in South Lake Tahoe, CA.” For the full report, see the Website of the Center for Urban Forest Research at . Lisa de Jong is a research forester, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Center for Urban Forest Research, Davi...

Should the mirid, Eccritotarsus catarinensis (Heteroptera: Miridae), be considered for release against water hyacinth in the United States of America? Julie A. Coetzee ab; Marcus J. Byrne a; Martin P. Hill b; Ted D. Center c a School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa b Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, ...

C. JACYN BAKER1*, NORTON MOCK1, KENNETH L. DEAHL2, BRYAN BAILEY3 and DANIEL P. ROBERTS4 Microbiology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, ARS, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, U.S.A., Vegetable Laboratory, ARS, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, U.S.A., Alternate Crops and Systems Laboratory, ARS, United States Department of Agriculture, Belt...