How soil can help solve our climate problem acs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Melissa Vatterott, food and farm policy director at the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, has issued a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture notice entitled "Request for Comments: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad". The Missouri Coalition for the Environment appreciates the opportunity to comment.
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ENHANCED PRACTICES: A $3.5 million NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program grant will support a five-year project for 20 soil and water conservation districts in northwest Minnesota to help irrigators with protecting groundwater resources and learning more about precision irrigation. The five-year regional project in northwest Minnesota will allow growers to boost their irrigation knowledge while improving water quality management.
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Twenty soil and water conservation districts have been selected to work with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture on a regional irrigation project. The project will provide financial and technical support to farmers who adopt precision irrigation and nitrogen management practices to help address groundwater quality and quantity issues.
6 Ways To Create Jobs and Solve Climate Change Through Nature-Based Infrastructure americanprogress.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from americanprogress.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Federal support for Oregon forests is coming in three forms:
$5 million in new funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Issued under the NRCSâ Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), these will assist individual landowners to treat privately owned, non-industrial forestland.
Up to $75 million that the federal Farm Service Agency is making available through its Emergency Forest Restoration Program. This money is earmarked to aid small woodland owners with cleanup and restoration in the wake of the Labor Day wildfires.
Joint Chiefs projects, which are a partnership between NRCS and the USDA Forest Service to complete treatments on federal lands and adjoining non-industrial private forestlands. Since 2014 ODF has been partner to 10 such forest restoration projects, helping create landscape-scale environmental benefits, such as greater resilience to drought and wildfire. The most recently announced project will treat forestlands in Deschutes and J