Browse our Introductory Articles In November of 2009, Secretary Vilsack announced a commitment of $320 million over the next four years for a Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative to address water quality, wildlife habitat and natural resource conservation concerns in the Basin.& ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/NRCS-Mississippi-River-Basin-Healthy-Watersheds-Initiative-/67/
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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers The Backcountry Hunters and Anglers' Report on the Greater-Sage Grouse shows how Wyoming got Sage-Grouse conservation right by getting everyone around the table.& ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conserving-Greater-SageGrouse--A-Sportsmens-Priority/2242/
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service This booklet provides information for citizen stewards and landowners, who embody President Bush’s vision of cooperative conservation—a vision built upon innovation, local ideas, inspiration and incentives, and on-the-ground action.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Tools-for-Helping-Imperiled-Wildlife-on-Private-Lands/1892/
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Allison Jones, Wild Utah Project, Salt Lake City, UT, Emanuel Vasquez, Wild Utah Project, Salt Lake City, UT, Amy O'Connor, Wild Utah Project, Salt Lake City, UT Best Management Practices provide science-based criteria and standards that land managers and conservation planners follow in making and implementing decisions about human uses and projects that affect our natural resources.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Best-Management-Practices-for-Solar-and-Wind-Energy-Development--A-Conservationists-Guide/2824/
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USDA NRCS The conservation efforts taken by farmers and ranchers have helped decrease the water withdrawn from the Ogallala Aquifer by more than 280 billion gallons over the past four years and are expected to continue contributing to the aquifer's health in the future.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Farmers-ranchers-work-to-conserve-biggest-aquifer-in-the-US/1009/
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Resources First Foundation - RFF The 2002 Farm Bill. authorized USDA to use Technical Service Providers (TSPs) The premise behind Technical Service Providers is that the demand for assistance to do conservation work is increasing and will exceed the current staffing capacity of the NRCS.
https://www.landcan.org/article/USDA-Technical-Service-Providers/136/
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service This booklet provides information for citizen stewards and landowners, who embody President Bush’s vision of cooperative conservation—a vision built upon innovation, local ideas, inspiration and incentives, and on-the-ground action.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Working-Together--Tools-for-Helping-Imperiled-Wildlife-on-Private-Lands/1980/
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By Adam T. Rohnke and James L. Cummins A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ENCOURAGING FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, LAND MANAGEMENT, AND MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT OF RESOURCES Featuring over five hundred illustrations and forty tables, this book is a collection of in-depth discussions by a tremendous range of experts on topics related to wildlife and fisheries management in Mississippi.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Fish-and-Wildlife-Management-A-Handbook-for-Mississippi-Landowners/2535/
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USDA NRCS USDA’s NRCS is helping to mitigate impacts of drought across the nation. With good drought plans and conservation systems, farmers and ranchers are better equipped to manage dry and other extreme weather.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Farmers-Ranchers-Mitigate-Impacts-of-Drought-with-Good-Planning/900/
This 14-pager from the Univ. of Arkansas Div. of Agriculture summarizes the Arkansas P Index, or API, adopted by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission effective Jan.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Using-the-2010-Arkansas-Phosphorus-Index/330/
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Bruce Vincent Rural America and the rest of the nation are experiencing a collision of visions. Rural Americans seek the conservation of their natural resources in combination with economic stability, while urban American visitors to these lands use political pressure to keep these lands pristine.
https://www.landcan.org/article/A-Collsion-of-Visions-The-truth-about-the-woods/843/
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Carl Wiedemann If you’re interested in long-term woodlot management, this article investigates the benefits of silviculture and the idea that forest management considers the trees that are left growing after a timber sale are just as important as the trees that are cut.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Unlocking-the-Economic-Potential-of-Your-Woodlot-/206/
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William E. Jensen As a product of the Waterbirds on Working Lands Audubon-Monsanto partnership, this report summarizes the interface between wetland and waterbird conservation and agriculture in Missouri, with special emphasis on Audubon Missouri's (AM) Important Bird Areas (IBA) program.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Missouri-Waterbirds-and-Working-Lands/2706/
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Reed Watson Water is a scarce and contentious resource in California. Its allocation frequently breeds conflicts over endangered species, land use, and public health.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Water-From-the-Desert--Entrepreneurs-Tap-into-Unlikely-Water-Sources/1971/
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USDA National Agroforestry Center Putting trees to work in conservation and production systems for farms, ranches, and nearby communities means planting the right trees, in the right places and in the correct design to achieve desired objectives.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Working-Trees-for-Agriculture/2027/
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WAFWA This updated Executive Summary of WAFWA's Range-wide Conservation Plan for the Lesser Prairie Chicken outlines the WAFWA Mitigation System, the Plan Administration (including committee composition), and current implementation status.
https://www.landcan.org/article/RWP-Executive-Summary-March-2014/2087/
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Steve Werblow and Chad Watts The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has published the results of a nationwide survey that assesses the benefits, challenges, yield impacts, and scale of adoption of cover crops.
https://www.landcan.org/article/20122013-Cover-Crop-Survey/1374/
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David R. Foster, Brian M. Donahue, David B. Kittredge, Kathleen F. Lambert, Malcolm L. Hunter, Brian R. Hall, Lloyd C. Irland, Robert J. Lilieholm, David A. Orwig, Anthony W. D’Amato, Elizabeth A. Colburn, Jonathan R. Thompson, James N. Levitt, Aaron M. Ellison, William S. Keeton, John D. Aber, Charles V. Cogbill, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Clarisse M. Hart New England’s distinctive landscape is a testament to the resiliency of the land and the conservation ethic of its people. The remarkable return of the region’s forests following an early history of forest clearing and intensive logging offers an unprecedented opportunity to secure a more sustainable future.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Wildlands-and-Woodland--A-vision-for-the-New-England-landscape/874/
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National Honey Bee Health Stakeholder Conference Steering Committee After news broke in November 2006 about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a potentially new phenomenon described by sudden and widespread disappearances of adult honey bees from beehives in the U.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Report-on-the-National-Stakeholders-Conference-on-Honey-Bee-Health/1045/
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Western Landowners Alliance This guide has been produced by and for landowners and practitioners constructively engaged in one of the greatest conservation challenges of our time—how to share and manage a wild, working landscape that sustains both people and wildlife.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Reducing-Conflict-with-Grizzly-Bears-Wolves-and-Elk-A-Western-Landowners-Guide/3459/
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