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<div>Last April, Secretary Vilsack announced the USDA's Building
Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry. This implementation
plan and progress report gives an update on the building blocks
framework.</div>
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<div>It outlines the goals for each building block, describes recent
USDA actions to help farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners respond
to climate change, and gives details of the implementation plans for
each of the building blocks.<font size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
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The report can be found at </font><font size="-1"
color="#0040C2"><b
>http://www.usda.gov/documents/building-blocks-implementation-plan-pr<span
></span>ogress-report.pdf</b></font><font size="-1"
color="#000000">.</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">More information on the building
blocks, including the case studies, can be found here:</font><font
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color="#0040C2"><b>http://usda.gov/climate-smart.html</b></font><font
size="-1" color="#000000">.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"Once we finally
reach a decision we are relieved to have the uncertainly of decision
making behind us. And now somebody turns up and tells us things that
call the wisdom of that decision into question again." (pp.
99-100)<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dietrich
Dorner.</font><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000"><i> The
Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex
Situations</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i>.</i><br>
1989 in German by Rowolt Verlag GMBH.<br>
1996 in English by Metropolitan Books, Perseus Books.</font></div>
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