Conservation Clip List for Friday, October 1st, 2021
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Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is launching a Firewise program with the goal of educating landowners on defensible space and forest management in Minnesota.
“The National Association of Conservation Districts welcomes the Save Our Forests Act, which is aimed to ensure the U.S. Forest Service is well staffed and able to conduct critical work, especially in highly visited and high-risk areas, while continuing to promote the benefits of recreation on public lands,” said Michael Crowder, President of the National Association of Conservation Districts.
The Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District’s annual milkweed seed pod collection — which helps to create and enhance monarch butterfly habitat — runs through Oct. 31.
As the House and Senate Democrats continue to formulate their priorities for their $3.5 trillion spending bill, details finally were unveiled on the $28 billion in conservation spending.
(Subscriber Only) The Agriculture Department is putting $75 million into 15 conservation projects around the country that have funding from private organizations or state governments and are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide other environmental benefits.
University of New Hampshire scientists have received three grants totaling $1 million that will support research addressing urgent questions in soil sustainability and, ultimately, resilient food production in New Hampshire and beyond.
While the use of biological products remains relatively low in cotton, the discussions about the importance of soil health and biology are ramping up in recent years.
Regenerative agriculture and regenerative ranching are becoming increasingly popular topics of conversation, both in industry circles and in the media. This might lead you to believe that regenerative agriculture is a new management philosophy. However, this is not the case.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is currently accepting new enrollments for the H2Ohio Program. Producers in the original 14-county targeted area of the Maumee River Watershed can sign up for the years 2022 and 2023.
(Subscriber Only) “America’s forests are in a state of emergency, and it’s time to treat them like one,” said Moore in his opening remarks. “This should be a call to action.”
A team led by Iowa State University researchers will expand and revamp an electronic toolbox designed to help farmers and landowners identify the conservation practices best suited for their land.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid recovery efforts for farmers, ranchers and residents affected by Hurricane Ida. USDA staff in offices across the country are ready to respond with a variety of program flexibilities and other assistance to producers and communities in need.
“Wildfires can occur any month in Oklahoma. They are wind driven by high wind events during extreme, dry conditions,” said John Weir, an Oklahoma State University Extension specialist in fire ecology with decades of experience in fire training nationwide.
While the White House has yet to detail how it will tally land for its “America the Beautiful” initiative — the Biden version of what is commonly known as “30×30,” the goal of conserving 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030 — two top officials said today that the count should include active grazing lands used by ranchers for cattle, horses, goats and sheep.
(Subscriber Only) Collectively, these farmers and others in Baltimore plan to build the city’s first “AgriHood” — a marketplace and community-shared agriculture and training resource institute.
Scientists say the health of a terrestrial ecosystem can be largely determined by three variables: vegetations’ ability to uptake carbon, its efficiency in using carbon and its efficiency in using water.
Today’s wildfires in overstocked forests burn so hot and on such vast acreages that reforestation becomes difficult or next to impossible in some areas. Soil damage and erosion become extreme.
(Subscriber Only) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced plans Wednesday to finance a series of large-scale projects aimed at developing markets for climate-smart farming and forestry practices.
If you are finding tiny caterpillars on your plants, hold on for the ride! Be prepared for butterflies to be cavorting around your garden in about a month.
In a stark new report, a team of NOAA and independent researchers found the 2020-2021 drought across the Southwest is the worst in the instrumental record, which dates to 1895.
(Subscriber Only) A private-lands project that aims to improve conditions for threatened coho salmon in California is getting an $8 million boost from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).
The American bumble bee may need to be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday.
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