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David Coyle, Assistant Professor of Forest Health and Invasive Species at Clemson University at a patch of Bradford pear trees in a field behind a cemetery in Pendleton, Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) was an Extension agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government. The 1994 Department Reorganization Act, passed by Congress, created CSREES by combining the former Cooperative State Research Service and the ...
The Clemson Extension Service’s forestry program is offering a bounty on the stinky trees — complete with an Old West-style “wanted” poster — that encourages property owners to chop ...
Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]
Clemson established an extension center in 1965 at Sumter, only 40 miles (64 km) away from Columbia. Sol Blatt, then the Speaker of the House, wrote President Tom Jones that "the University should build as many two year colleges over the State as rapidly as possible to prevent the expansion of Clemson schools for the Clemson people."
William Williams Long, director of Cooperative Extension Service, 1914–34 Long Hall was originally constructed for the Agriculture department. It was built on the former site of the university's cooperative extension service. It was designed in an Italianate style by Rudolph E. Lee. It is currently the home of the Biology department.
The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to land-grant universities, intended to inform citizens about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues (National Sea Grant College Program), and related subjects.
The Cooperative Extension Service is a legacy to Lever. This helped transform rural America. The Liberty Ship SS A. Frank Lever was named after Lever. [6] Lever Hall, a high-rise dormitory on the Clemson University campus, is named after Lever. [7] The Clemson University Library has Lever's papers. [8]