Conservation Clip List for Friday March 25th, 2022
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The Snyder County Conservation District (SCCD) will host a Soil Health Field Day at the Middlecreek Valley Antique Association grounds on Thursday, April 21. Farmers will learn about how their farm’s “soil herd” can work for them.
The Courier:Regenerating the land
By Vicki Johnson | Findlay, OH | North Central Region
03/20/22
“The word ‘regenerate’ is the important part because it shows an emphasis on doing more than sustaining our agricultural productivity,” said Beth Diesch, team leader at Seneca Conservation District. “It means building it back.”
Committed to supporting local students with a vision for natural resources and conservation, the Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District will offer one $3,000 scholarship to a college student majoring in agriculture, natural resource sciences or a related discipline.
After the CZU fires, the county came up with a five-year wildfire fuel management plan, which includes 32 projects across the county. One of these involves reducing fire fuels and improving forest health at Wunderlich and Huddart parks in Woodside. The project is a partnership between County Parks and the San Mateo Resource Conservation District, with funding from the state’s Climate Investments Program.
The Routt County Conservation District (RCCD) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are looking at the basin from a watershed health perspective and developing programs to improve and protect the private lands that catch the precipitation in much of the basin.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing more than $166.5 million in 108 infrastructure projects as part of implementing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The second round of applications are due March 31.
Between Feb. 17 and March 2, Nebraska high school students competed across the state during regional Envirothon competitions demonstrating natural resources knowledge by identifying trees and animal tracks, calculating the number of steers on rangeland, and determining soil structure.
(Opinion) Forests have taught us far more than we could ever convey. The more we learn, the more we recognize trees as essential partners not only in our survival, but also in our education and socialization.
Regenerative agriculture, which involves building soil health–nature’s reservoir–and using practices that reduce irrigation demands, can help us California farms and ranches be part of a drought mitigation strategy.
To help land managers and the public understand where their water comes from and what affects it, the USDA Forest Service launched an enhanced interactive map called Forests to Faucets 2.0. The map shows that forests are a critical link in providing dependable water for drinking across the country.
“It says on the side of the bottle that it’s a carbon neutral product,” says Tom Oswald, the Cleghorn, Iowa, farmer. “So that means someone thought they would increase the value of this water by putting carbon neutral [on the bottle]. So, if you don’t think they [carbon markets] are real, they’re real.”
The hard truth here, the one that fundamentally shapes the lives of those in the valley, is that water is disappearing. So is a way of life, a core of California economic culture, and a place that provides a nation struggling under the rising rate of inflation with a quarter of its food.
(Subscribers Only) Approximately 16,000 visitors wandered past autonomous planters, robotic milkers and other advanced agricultural equipment as they made their way through the heart of the nation’s capitol on Monday and Tuesday.
A USDA disaster declaration makes farm operators in these counties eligible to be considered for certain assistance from the Farm Service Agency, including emergency loans. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of a USDA disaster declaration to apply for emergency loans.
Gov. Doug Ducey hopes to solve the state’s water woes during his last year in office as decades of drought strain water supplies from the Colorado River.
(Subscriber Only) As we approach the traditional “peak” snowpack date near the end of the month, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is going to end the year just over half of average – around 55 percent, says USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey.
Created in partnership with the Honey Bee Health Coalition, USApple has released its Pollinator Best Management Practices for Apples. This set of practices for U.S. apple production was created to provide guidance for growers and regulators on pollinator protection in orchards, said USApples..
