Conservation Clip List for Friday, August 13, 2021
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Worcester County Conservation District (WCCD) is providing forestry and conservation information and assistance to hundreds of people across Massachusetts through a Neighborhood Outreach Project.
The Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (LPSNRD) based out of Lincoln, Nebraska, first received an NACD Technical Assistance (TA) Grant in 2018 to hire an additional resources technician on staff to help get more conservation on the ground.
To implement an agricultural carbon marketplace nationwide, a public-private partnership would need to be reached, said Tim Palmer, a farmer in southern Iowa and past president of the National Association of Conservation Districts.
During this first organizational meeting, six national organizations agreed to sponsor the GLCI. They were the Kansas Farm Bureau’s national affiliate, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Kansas Forage and Grassland Council’s national affiliate, American Forage and Grassland Council, American Sheep Industry, National Association of Conservation Districts, the Kansas Livestock Association’s national affiliate, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Society for Range Management.
From soil conservation to scholarships, the Berks County Conservation District celebrates its 75th anniversary pursuing its mission to protect the county’s soil and water.
The next farm bill is only two years away. A cross section of experts at Minnesota Farmfest covered everything from conservation and sustainability to crop insurance and ag concentration.
Phragmites — or reed grass — and Japanese knotweed form large clones that “are essentially immortal and will continue to spread until they reach some absolute barrier.”
(Subscriber Only) The Senate passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill Tuesday that would provide $550 billion in new funding to repair America’s rural roads, ports and waterways, while dramatically increasing high-speed internet access.
After learning about his stewardship objectives, we discussed the options to establish a native pollinator prairie through the Improving Working Lands for Wildlife Program, which is federally financed through EQIP, or the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, through the USDA -NRCS.
(Subscriber Only) Time is growing short to address global climate change, whose impacts are being seen in more extreme weather events such as drought and heavier precipitation, and changes to agricultural practices could take decades to have an impact on carbon emissions, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded an Urban Forestry Grant to The Trust for Governors Island that will be used to effectively manage the island’s historic trees and new plantings. This includes the completion of an island-wide tree inventory and the installation of a community forest management plan led by a dedicated arborist.
(Subscriber Only) In a recent survey, Californians identified water supply and drought as their top environmental concern, and the number of respondents who said they believe climate change is contributing to drought increased.
Weston Dittmer, district conservationist for the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in western Iowa, likened the consultation they do with farmers to the assistance they get at a local tractor dealer.
Soils recycle nutrients, regulate our water supply and, importantly for this moment in history: they store more carbon than plants, animals and the atmosphere combined.
A newly published study by Colorado State University and partners found that Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing – which involves grazing small areas with a high density of livestock for a short period of time, followed by long rest periods – can help capture carbon and boost nitrogen soil retention.
(Subscriber Only) Senate Democrats released a fiscal 2022 budget resolution on Monday that calls for $3.5 trillion in new spending, including as much as $135 billion for agriculture and child nutrition programs.
The nonprofit group Practical Farmers of Iowa is launching a new smartphone application designed to make it easy for farmers to make decisions about cover crops in time for fall planting.
The Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center in Twain Harte and 14 other conservation groups are urging Randy Moore, the former Pacific Southwest regional forester who is now chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to increase prescribed burning, thinning of surface and ladder fuels, and biomass removal in the face of unnaturally severe megablazes and climate change.
Regenerative agriculture is drawing attention in business circles because it removes carbon from the atmosphere. But the business case for Mark is resilience.
Climate change, drought and high demand are expected to force the first-ever mandatory cuts to a water supply that 40 million people across the American West depend on — the Colorado River.
Researchers are concerned that the Dixie fire’s record won’t hold for long. The parched landscapes and increased temperatures that set the stage for bigger blazes this year are not anomalies – they are trends. And the conditions are going to get worse.
In the same crop year as the ground groans from extreme drought in the Great Plains and West, farmers in southeast Arkansas are drowning in the aftermath of water world. In a matter of days, freakish summer rains devastated many operations, and the financial blow may push some young producers permanently out of business.
With climate change and vast lands dominated by invasive grass species, experts say Hawaii needs to fund its own wildfire fuel reduction program to lessen the threat of wildfires.
For the first time in 20 years, botanists have identified a new carnivorous plant on the Pacific coast of North America, but what’s good news for science is bad news for insects.
Blooms of Florida’s red tide, the algae that floats to the state’s shores and is fatal for the surrounding marine life, continue to linger along the Gulf Coast near Tampa.
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