The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Maryland Department of Natural Resources $32,000 from the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund to support butterfly conservation and habitat restoration projects. “Over the past 20 years, monarch population losses as high as 90 percent have been reported in some parts of the United States,” Natural Resources Invertebrate Ecologist […]
New Livestock Tagging Facility in Hagerstown
Maryland Department of Agriculture Approves New Livestock Tagging Facility in Hagerstown The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has approved the Four States Live Stock Sale in Hagerstown as an official tagging facility, which allows the auctions to apply official identification to animals as required by the USDA Animal Disease Traceability Rule (ADT). The traceability rules […]