Conservation Clip List for Friday, August 6th, 2022
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This blog post is part of a nine-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 76th Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. This post’s author, Steven Meeks of Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District in VA, attended the meeting as a TA speaker.
On July 29, the Massachusetts Envirothon team from Lexington, MA, was named the champion of the 2022 National Conservation Foundation (NCF)-Envirothon, an international environmental and natural resources education competition for high school students.
(Subscribers Only) Senate Democrats don’t have a vote to spare this week as they try to pass their historic climate package, including more than $20 billion aimed at helping farmers adopt practices that reduce greenhouse emissions.
Carbon offset startup AgriCapture hit a milestone earlier this year when it completed a 4,000-acre cover crop program after harvest 2021. The company says it’s the largest cover cropping project of its kind in the Mississippi River Valley.
Budget bill includes more than $20 billion for programs including conservation, biofuels and wildfire prevention. The NationalAssociationofConservationDistricts said the potential investments in agriculture conservation programs is needed.
The climate deal reached last week by Senate Democrats could reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that American farmers produce by expanding programs that help accumulate carbon in soil, fund climate-focused research and lower the abundant methane emissions that come from cows.
In this blog, FAC Net member Amanda Milici shares how communities around Lake Tahoe came together in response to the Caldor Fire and through Firewise organizing.
A relentless heat wave is piling on the difficulties faced by ranchers and farmers who’ve endured up to two years of drought in the Western U.S., causing some to sell off cattle at an increasingly rapid pace.
The VanBurenConservationDistrict will hold Healthy Water Week this week. The district’s Kyle Mead tells WSJM News county residents can stop by the office in Paw Paw all week to have water from their home screened for nitrates and to learn about what they can do to protect the water.
There are two things you need to farm: soil and water. For the David Felumlee family in east-central Ohio, protecting those two resources has been a decades-long process that has paid dividends both to their bottom line and to the environment.
Minimizing soil disturbance is one of the key tenets promoted to build soil health in agricultural systems. Many farmers across the country have adopted reduced and no-till systems to build soil carbon, a central component to healthy soils. The Soil Science Society of America’s (SSSA) August 1st Soils Matter blog explores options to improve soil health for crops that grow underground – like potatoes.
As important as this work in the forests has been, its impact on salmon health relies on the work of other collaborative partners. Rivers and streams pass through a variety of landscapes – forests, agricultural land and urban areas – connecting these diverse uses as the water flows toward the Sound.
(Opinion) The flowers are attractive to butterflies, bees and other insect pollinators, making it a great choice when planting gardens with pollinators in mind. It’s also an excellent choice when combined with other natives to benefit wildlife and pollinators.
Staff from the community’s Division of Fish and Wildlife have been combing the beaches and waters around Metlakatla for the five-spined crabs, which federal officials have called one of the most invasive marine species around.
The NY Farm Girls weren’t sure how influential they would be when they started an Instagram account in 2015, but today their voice his heard by more than 100,000 followers.
Wild horses hold a special place in the mythos of the American West, with images of free-roaming herds of mustangs grazing on vast public rangelands. But for some communities in New Mexico, the reality tragically differs.
