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#UselessSusanCollins not so useless! #Protests and #PublicOutcry works!

#UniversityOfMaine’s #USDA funding restored

by WABI News Desk
Published: Mar. 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM EDT

Maine (WABI) - "Senator #SusanCollins announced Wednesday that the University of Maine’s funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been restored.

"On Monday the University received notice that funding from the USDA was paused.

"According to UMS, the notice stated the pause was temporary while the USDA evaluated potential follow-up actions related to prospective Title VI (6) or Title IX (9) violations.

"Collins released at statement saying:

'This USDA funding is critically important not only to the University of Maine, but to our farmers and loggers, as well as to the many people who work in #Maine’s #agriculture, #aquaculture, and #forestry industries. Now that funding has been restored, the work that the University does in partnership with the many people and communities who depend on these programs can continue.'"

wabi.tv/2025/03/13/university-
#ResistDOGE #MaineResists #MaineResistance #District13

WABI · University of Maine’s USDA funding restoredBy WABI News Desk

“It’s easy to understand that when people arrived on this landscape, that it was a landscape that was shaped and maintained by fire and that it was exquisitely beautiful,” White says.

“It’s easy to understand that traditional knowledge of should be integrated into fire management practices today, but, man, that’s hard to achieve.”

rewildingmag.com/indigenous-fo

Rewilding Magazine · Indigenous Forest Management: A Culture of BurningEuropean settlers to North America marvelled at its landscapes – then banned the traditional practices that created them. Now, it's time to bring them back.

“I don’t believe we have the right to control nature. We work with it from a place of responsibility, respect and reciprocity.

"This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air and humans?’

"Humans are in that circle, but we are just one of the spokes in the wheel.”

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rewildingmag.com/learning-how-

Rewilding MagazineLearning How to Garden a ForestAn outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the America West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires.

Have you ever thought about how the trees in an environment got there? Interesting article about the design aspect of how cities select and acquire their .

and supply availability issues make urban forestry programs harder. Didn't realize the Inflation Reduction Act included $1.5b for urban . Hope we can learn more from these efforts about building diverse, healthy, mutually supportive communities--tree and human together.

fastcompany.com/90828197/were-