Environment

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture helps break ground for new USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Building

Officials, legislators, and university leaders broke ground for the new USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Building on the Pullman campus

USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Building Groundbreaking

Award honors Forester Kevin Zobrist and team’s stewardship impact

In classrooms or deep in the woods, Forester Kevin Zobrist helps Washingtonians protect the woodland environment.

Zobrist wide crop forest

Field tour looks at hard-working grasses for the future, June 8

See experimental grasses and meet the scientists testing how they stand up to heavy wear, pollution, and extreme conditions.

Michael Neff- grass field day

WSU sentinel plantings to guard against invasive pests, diseases at Washington ports

TACOMA, Wash.—Aiming to catch and identify invasive pests and diseases before they impact Washington farms and forests, scientists at Washington State University will plant trees and shrubs as sentinels at the Port of Tacoma. Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s Office of International Programs and drawing on the involvement of community scientists, […]

Tacoma port