Journal of Soil and Water Conservation back issues from July 2003:
Soil information for a changing world: a viewpoint from the soil and water conservation society's executive director.(Home Front)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Earlier this summer I was asked to address the National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference on the topic of soil information for a changing world. Clearly, our world is changing and those changes are rapid, multidirectional, and complex. How to provide natural resource and conservation ...
Policy: snack when we need a feast? A guest editorial written by a leading conservation professional.(View Point)(Letter to the Editor)
Jul 01, 2003; ... For the public policy process to successfully address resource conservation issues, it needs timely and accurate information about resource conservation on privately owned "working lands." Since the 1985 farm bill was enacted, the overall need has exponentially increased. Why? Because new ...
Don't underestimate executive director position.(Raise Your Voice)(Letter to the Editor)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Steve Lovejoy (March/April 2003) has outlined quite thoroughly the marks of an effective Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and its governing body (i.e., supervisors, directors). It cannot be doubted that dedicated, highly motivated, and well-informed leaders are essential. ...
Crack or chasm.(Raise Your Voice)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Craig Cox's editorial on 'Closing the Conservation Gap' (January/February 2003) clearly explained that despite billions of dollars expended, countless hours of dedicated conservation professionalism, and thousands of innovative efforts by conservation-minded landowners, we simply do not ...
Impetus for research and education.(Raise Your Voice)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Each Spring I begin my environmental soil science course with an overview of the numerous domestic regulatory agencies, laws, and legislative acts that govern our interactions with the environment in this country. Most of my students, even with a reasonable familiarity with these laws and ...
ISCO 2004.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The 13th International Soil Conservation Organization Conference (ISCO) is being held in Brisbane, Australia July 4-9, 2004. The conference, held every other year, has a theme of "Conserving Soil and Water for Society: Sharing Solutions." The program agenda continues to be ...
Great Lakes is out of shape says report.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada have released the joint State of the Great Lakes 2003 report that gives a flabby view of the progress to clean up the lakes. The Great Lakes is the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. In 1998, in an attempt to better ...
Bush goes to Utah Governor for EPA leadership.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Utah Governor, Mike Leavitt (R) has been chosen by President George W. Bush to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Leavitt will replace the former administrator, Christie Todd Whitman, who resigned in May. ...
Climate change may mean wet grasslands.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... A two-year experiment by researchers at Stanford and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has found that wetter grasslands could result from warmer temperatures. These findings contradict many climate models that forecast drier natural landscapes including grasslands. The researchers ...
Topic areas set for 2004 SWCS conference.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) will soon invite individuals to submit abstracts to contribute to the program of the 2004 annual conference being held in St. Paul, Minnesota July 23-28. By September 30, the SWCS website and call for papers brochure will have complete ...
Factoid.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... * The United States is home to one-quarter of all cars in the world at 128 million cars. * Americans emitted 302 million tons of carbon in those automobiles. * The average automobile in the United States ...
House sets USEPA FY budget.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The House Appropriations Subcommittee acted on the USEPA FY04 budget. Their bill provides for FY04: * $8 billion for the USEPA overall. ($375 million above the President's request and $74 million below FY03). * S1.2 billion for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund ...
Earth observation system: world committed to sharing ecology data.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... An August 1 New York Times article says that officials from more than 30 countries agreed to expand monitoring of the Earth's natural resources and to create a system for sharing the resulting data. The effort is hoped to fill in gaps from faulty or lacking instruments to record data ...
Four-year crop rotation improves soil health--and boosts profits.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Soil Scientist Deborah Allan is part of a long-term project to compare a four-year rotation with the more traditional two-year crop rotation in the Midwest. The four-year rotation consists of corn the first year, followed by soybeans, then oats and alfalfa, and then an alfalfa stand. The ...
NRI switches to an annual reporting.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The National Resources Inventory (NRI) has been conducted every five years since 1977, but as of mid-July, the NRI will begin transition to an annual inventory. On July 11 the newest inventory was released. This 2001 NRI is the first of the annual NRI releases and presents national-level ...
NCBA and FWS: "Walk a mile in my boots!".(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The National Cattleman's Beef Association (NCBA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have entered into a new exchange program where ranchers and FWS employees will swap positions for 2 to 10 days in order to foster the understanding each other's lifestyles. The program, called ...
States welcome tax incentives for conservation.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Eighteen states have adopted tax incentives to promote conservation practices. The Conservation Fund reports that this spring Mississippi and New Mexico have joined other states that support conservation programs with dollars collected through a tax credit. For more information, ...
Assessment of nutrient management cost and benefits.(Notebook: conservation news you can use)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The first phase of a joint U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) strategy to protect water quality and public health associated with animal feeding operations (AFOs). The result of the first phase is a new report, Costs Associated with ...
The best buildings can't be seen: while his neighbors mow their lawns, Malcolm Wells just watches the wild grass grow tall--his lawn happens to be his roof.
Jul 01, 2003; ... A conventional architect gone green, Malcom Wells designs buildings that literally blend into the landscape. Installing buildings into the earth instead of on top of it, he says offers advantages of natural insulation, fire- and sound-proofing, exteriors that need little maintenance, and ...
Far out environmental monitoring: from the heavens to the seas, NASA and conservation are intertwined to the benefit of Earth's water bodies.
Jul 01, 2003; ... The waters of the Mississippi River, rife with fertilizers, sediment and other runoff, flow through the heartland of the United States and empty into the Gulf of Mexico. The influx of these nutrified waters stimulate algae blooms that suck oxygen from the biologically diverse waters of the ...
Assuring accountability.
Jul 01, 2003; ... Success, not just beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Our perception of the success of government conservation programs depends upon trust--that government managers execute these programs in the public interest. But trust alone has its limits. We also want proof that the programs ...
Is a Conservation Trust Fund viable?(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society released a report, Sharing, the Cost: Creating a Working Land Conservation Trust Fund Through a Tax on Agricultural Inputs?, that explores the feasibility of a tax on agricultural products to fund a trust fund for conservation programs. The Society ...
Make a note of the upcoming board of directors meetings.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Fall 2003 meeting: November 13-14, 2003, St. Paul MN Teleconference: January 7, 2004 Spring 2004 meeting: ...
Soil and Water Conservation Society comments on CRP interim rule.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) believes four changes in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) interim rule and guidance manual could help the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and producers capitalize on opportunities at hand ....
The importance of networking.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003; ... It's who you meet that counts. The people you meet should excite you, inspire you, make you grow. That's why you should try to constantly add to the number and variety of people you meet. Each one will polish a different facet of your mind and stimulate you in ways you may not anticipate. ...
Professional development through workshops and conferences.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... September 16-18, 2003 Native Plant Summit VII--North Dakota Chapter Soil and Water Conservation Society Fargo, ND--"Planning Native Landscapes--Urban and Rural" is the theme of this year's summit held at the Best Western Doublewood Inn in Fargo. Participants will have the ...
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... What do the research editor and associate editors do? Any scientific journal is held to high standards. The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is no exception. Before any research article is published in the Journal, it goes through a rigorous peer-reviewed process. Every author ...
What do the advisory members on the editorial board do?(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Research articles are only a portion of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. There are three advisory members on the editorial board that can help with the Journal's mission to communicate with the conservation community and specialized audiences. <Pre> Lynn Betts...
Connecting the conservation professional.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society is connecting today's conservation professional. The Society provides members with opportunities to connect with natural resource professionals in the study of forestry, soil science, water quality, climate change, planning, landscape architecture, ...
Conservation bloopers.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... We know you know what you're doing! But as in everything there are times when things just don't work out they way you planned. We want to find the humor in conservation. Let us know the humorous things that have happened to you over the years--your ...
New procedure for selecting locations for annual conferences.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Society has adopted a new approach to select sites for the Society's annual conference. The Board of Director's approved process at the summer meeting and distributed it to those present. If you ...
Society weighs in on farm bill implementation.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society signed on to a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Secretary, Ann M. Veneman. The letter stressed the importance of the successful implementation of two new ...
Executive Director on Heinz Center panel.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society's Executive Director, Craig Cox, is serving on the design committee for the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment's project on the State of the Nation's ...
Sites of future Society international conferences.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)
Jul 01, 2003 ... 2005--July 29-August 4, Rochester, New York ...
Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference wrap-up.(Conservogram: soil and water conservation society in action)(Brief Article)
Jul 01, 2003 ... The 58th annual conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society--held in Spokane, Washington--was a great success. The Inland Empire chapter did a superb job hosting the event. Attendance numbers were comparable to Indianapolis last year. The dignitaries opening up the ...
Soil quality: similar goals but different pathways.(Introduction)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Population growth and growing concerns about environmental quality and ecological health will increase demands on soil and water resources. Implementation of the best soil and water conservation practices will be essential for simultaneously sustaining agricultural production improving ...
Soil quality: humankind's foundation for survival.(Research Editorial)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Many of our current soil management decisions are not sustainable and lead to environmental degradation (e.g.; salinization, compaction, erosion, contamination of ground and surface waters with nitrate, phosphorus, pesticides, or other materials). The concept of soil quality, defined as ...
Deficiencies in the soil quality concept and its application.(Research Editorial)
Jul 01, 2003; ... The term "soil quality" came into vogue in the 1990's following a 1993 National Research Council Committee (NRCC) report on long-range soil and water conservation entitled "Soil and water quality: An agenda for agriculture" (National Research Council, 1993). The development of the concept ...
Watershed-lake water quality modeling: verification and application.(Research)
Jul 01, 2003; ... Water quality is a major concern, especially in the U.S. Midwest, which are agricultural states. Several common water quality problems have been noted in reservoirs of the Central Plains. There have been reports of elevated plant nutrient levels, with concurrent elevations in plant biomass ...
Optimizing the placement of riparian practices in a watershed using terrain analysis.
Jul 01, 2003; ... There is an increasing need to design and implement best management practices (BMPs) that will effectively protect water resources. One key to achieving water quality improvements is to target sensitive areas for BMP installation (Maas et al., 1985; Norris, 1993). Planning tools that can ...
Ammonia volatilization trends following liquid hog manure application to forage land.
Jul 01, 2003; ... Comparative ammonia (N[H.sub.3]) losses were assessed using static sorber traps on semiarid tame pastures and native rangelands following the application of liquid hog manure using either surface banding or coulter injection at varying rates. Historical changes ill livestock production ...
Fifty years of crop evapotranspiration studies in Puerto Rico.
Jul 01, 2003; ... The countries within the humid tropics contain almost one-third of the total world population (Bonell et al., 1993). Within this region there are many small islands that rely on agriculture to feed their populations and whose water resources are subject to an ever-increasing ...