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ABC 23: Elk County Conservation District The Elk County Conservation District and local artists are bringing awareness to how storm water affects local waterways by a series of upstream murals.
Radio Results Network: Whitmer Declares Saturday ‘Conservation District Day’
Daily Bulletin: Inland Empire Resource Conservation District awards $10,000 in scholarships The Inland Empire Resource Conservation District, based in Redlands, recently awarded $2,000 scholarships to five Inland Empire students who are looking to pursue higher education in environmental sciences, natural resources management, agriculture and related fields.
AGRINEWS: STAR unveils new web app for 2021 crop year Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources, an initiative developed by farmers for farmers, announced open enrollment for the 2021 crop year with a new web app that provides results from field evaluation forms in real-time.
Scientific American: Western Drought Has Lasted Longer Than the Dust Bowl It has lasted longer than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It’s dropped water levels perilously low at two of the nation’s largest reservoirs, forced ranchers to sell off herds and helped propel scorching wildfires. And worst of all, the drought blanketing the western United States is not going away.
USDA-NRCS: NRCS Idaho state conservationist champions partnerships to benefit conservation When Curtis Elke took over as Idaho state conservationist of the Natural Resources Conservation Service more than five years ago, he noticed that there was an unusual level of cooperation between many state and federal agencies in the state.
Oklahoma Farm Radio: Gaskamp Appointed to Department of Interior Council, Boards
Noble Research Institute Wildlife and Range Consultant Joshua Gaskamp was recently appointed to the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize Advisory Council, the Protection of Endangered Species Board and the Management of Invasive Species Board, all of which are part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The Daily Scoop: Four Questions Farmers are Asking about Carbon Markets
Beyond income, some farmers are interested in the carbon industry as an opportunity to learn practices and benefit from technology that can help them build a strong, more sustainable future.
Deseret News: Fighting wildfires in the West: ‘I don’t think we can overdo anything’
Neguse, Curtis, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., held a press call Thursday detailing the need for more urgent, coordinated responses to wildfires in the West, which have become routine rather than rare.
USDA-NIFA: NIFA Invests Over $7M to Support Research Innovations and Workforce Development at Agricultural Colleges
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced today an investment of over $7 million in research grants to U.S. Non-Land-grant Colleges of Agriculture (NLGCA).
POLITICO: Monster wildfire tests years of forest management efforts
(Subscriber Only) Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to restore the thick stands of ponderosa to a less fire-prone state. This week, the nation’s biggest burning wildfire provided them with an unexpected, real-world experiment.
Progressive Farmer: Getting Through Exceptional Drought
Adam Lee, who farms with his father near Plaza, North Dakota, looks around at area grass and pasture and notes how a few shots of rain in the past few weeks have started to green up the fields again.
USDA: Can Family-Owned Forests Help the U.S. Achieve a Low-Carbon Future? A USDA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) project is trying to reimagine how carbon markets can work with and for small landholders.
Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: Feeling the drought on my family farm
(Opinion) We fell into the trap of believing technology and innovation would rescue us from water scarcity. Today, a reality check greets each season: We can’t make more water or control the forces of nature.
CNN: Wildfire smoke from the West’s massive blazes stretches all the way to the East Coast Extraordinary plumes of wildfire smoke are billowing out of these massive complexes, reaching so far up into the atmosphere that they are being carried thousands of miles east by high-level winds.
CBS News: What the megadrought means to the American West
The Hill: Biden order to strengthen hand of small farmers in legal fights A new executive order from President Biden targeting anti-competitive business practices is expected to give a major boost to sustainability efforts in the agriculture industry.
Wisconsin State Farmer: Creating a stronger beef business with a resilient grazing system A powerful cost-saving tool when tightening the budget is extending the grazing season. Not only does this stretch out homegrown feed resources, but it reduces costs associated to machinery and labor by relying on livestock to harvest their own feed. POLITICO: Court denies greens, leaves Trump WOTUS rule in place
KDVR: Study: Colorado is the 2nd most prepared state for wildfires
There’s new research showing Colorado’s communities have some of the best ratings in the nation when it comes to being prepared for a wildfire.
La Crosse Tribune: Farmers invited to join cover crop survey
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are continuing and expanding a project that started in 2020 to help advance cover crop use in Wisconsin. They are looking for farmers to share information about the use of cover crops on their farms. Participants fill out a survey and participate in a data collection protocol to provide the needed information.
The NM Policy Report: Heinrich, Blunt introduce legislation to fund wildlife conservation
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, which Heinrich is introducing along with Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, would provide $1.3 billion annually in funding to states and $97.5 million to tribes to implement projects identified in the wildlife action plans that will help keep species off of the endangered species list and recover those that are already on the list.
Metrowest Daily News: SVT finalizes three conservation efforts through collaboration, fundraising and grants The Sudbury Valley Trustees, a private nonprofit, protects and stewards more than 5,000 acres of land in 36 communities with more than 60 miles of trails between Boston and Worcester. Collins said it wouldn’t have been possible without the help of donors, and that people said they were especially motivated to donate after a year spent closer to home. CNN: A large red tide has contributed to more than 600 tons of dead marine life in Florida “Red Tide in some parts of Tampa Bay in the past few days tested at ten to 17 times the concentration considered “high,” which can cause significant respiratory issues in people as well as fish kills,” Pinellas County officials said in a red tide update July 13.
Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Landowners weigh how to help ‘dire’ grassland bird populations Grassland bird populations have been in a free-fall for decades, decreasing overall by 57 per cent across the prairies from 1970 to 2016.
Agri-Pulse: Opinion: How NASA technology helps farmers at home and abroad
(Subscriber Only) (Opinion) With the input of American farmers and through relationships with global consortium partners, NASA Harvest – NASA’s Food Security and Agricultural Program – is developing new tools that enhance crop productivity, sustainability, and the understanding of where and how crops are produced around the globe.
Capital Press: Court upholds Trump water rule The U.S. District Court of South Carolina last week dismissed a challenge to the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which in 2020 replaced the Obama administration’s controversial 2015 Waters of the United States rule known by the acronym WOTUS.
News 12: ‘Just destroy it.’ Dept. of Agriculture wants NJ residents to be aware of spotted lanternfly
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