Journal of Soil and Water Conservation back issues from May 2005:
Conservation intelligence: a viewpoint from the Soil and Water Conservation Society's executive director.(HOMEFRONT)
May 01, 2005; ... Intelligence--the process of assembling facts and turning them into knowledge of what might happen and what we are able to do about it--has been in the news a lot. We have learned a great deal about how critical good intelligence is to our national security. Lately, I've been thinking ...
You get what you pay for.(RAISE YOUR VOICE)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... Recent years have seen growing support for easement programs such as the Farm and Ranchlands Protection Program, Wetlands Reserve Program, and Grassland Reserve Program, which would lead one to believe that they have proven to be effective for conserving at-risk agricultural resources and ...
Soil loss tolerance--Fact or Myth?(RAISE YOUR VOICE)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... Recent contributor Jerry Crew is to be commended for his cogent insight regarding the non acceptability of soil loss, and the possibility of achieving virtually zero soil erosion through minimal tillage. The late University of Wisconsin Professor Francis Hole, opined some 20 years ago that ...
Grassland reserve--not a grassland preserve.(RAISE YOUR VOICE)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... The guest editorial by Clay Ogg in the March/April 2005 Journal is a stunning disappointment. The article misrepresented the goals and environmental performance of current U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation efforts. In general, the piece provided few useful suggestions for ...
Use erosion control blankets with care.(RAISE YOUR VOICE)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... In your March/April issue of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, you ran an article entitled "Do Erosion Control and Snakes Mesh?" In this article, authors Christopher Barton and Karen Kinkead talk about snakes becoming trapped in netting used on erosion control blankets. Members ...
Erosion control blankets are not created equal.(RAISE YOUR VOICE)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... In your March/April issue of the Journal, you ran an article entitled, "Do Erosion Control and Snakes Mesh?" In this article, the authors write about snakes becoming trapped in netting used in rolled erosion control products. There was reference in the article to both temporary erosion ...
Better balance through decision-making: a guest editorial written by a leading conservation professional.(VIEWPOINT)
May 01, 2005; ... Decision-making to achieve a balance between the economic goals of producers and environmental quality benefits is complex. Most of the time we consider that the balance is skewed to one side or the other, and that there are winners and losers. From the production perspective, the loser is ...
Fifty-year renewal for lower Colorado River.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... U.S. Interior Secretary announced in early April that a $626-million, 50-year program is being launched to create 8,130 acres of habitat and maintain sections of a 400-mile stretch along the Colorado River system. The lower Colorado supplies millions of residents in Southern California, ...
Motes aren't just for dust anymore.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(forests)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... One hundred tiny sensors, robots, cameras, and wireless computers--many the size of a deck of cards and called motes (after dust motes)--are studying the forest in the San Jacinto Mountains in California. The Center for Embedded Network Sensing at UCLA is assisting biologists to receive ...
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake but it will still be a river.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> "Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for ...
Factoids.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(endangered rivers)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
May 01, 2005 ... Most endangered rivers of 2005. 1. Susquhanna River (NY, PA, MD)--Shown below. 2. McCrystal (NM) 3. Fraser River (CO) 4. Skykomish River (WA) 5. Roan Creek (TN) ...
Susquhanna River.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... Susquhanna River (NY, PA,MD)--Number 1 on the ...
Wind erosion model transferred from ARS to NRCS.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)
May 01, 2005 ... A computer model that is the latest cutting-edge tool for forecasting wind erosion damage is a step closer to reaching growers and landowners in wind-prone regions of the country, with the transfer on April 4 of the Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS) model from U.S. Department of ...
Stephen L. Johnson: New EPA administrator.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... May 2, 2005, Stephen L. Johnson was sworn in as the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
Capturing carbon a key benefit of no-till soil management.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... No-till soil management can play an important role in keeping carbon in the soil, rather than allowing it to escape into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, according to a cooperative study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Brazilian scientists at Beltsville, Maryland. Capturing ...
Going green in the Iron Curtain.(CONSERVATION NEWS YOU CAN USE)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... The Iron Curtain--the no man's land that gashed Europe in two--has been 'going green.' The land that makes up the Iron Curtain fluctuates from 30 to 4,000 yards wide, along a 4,000-mile strip with several countries on its' borders. A coalition of environmental and community development ...
Going retro: celebrating 60 years of the JSWC.(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... "The Society Comes of Age" authored by the SWCS executive director at the time, H. Wayne Pritchard in 1965. [Originally published in Volume 20, Issue 4: July/August 1965] There exists in America a multitude of organizations that have as their basic objective the conservation of ...
Soil conservation and SWCS: a forty-year retrospective.
May 01, 2005; ... The year was 1941. Hugh Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and a small group of conservationists met to talk about the need for a new professional society to accommodate the interests of men and women who were joining the fight to control soil erosion and protect the ...
Farmland preservation: innovative approaches in Ontario.
May 01, 2005; ... Policy to protect farmland is based on the premise that it is in the public interest to protect land, farmers, and the farm economy. Within Ontario, high capability farmland is a finite resource. Ontario contains 52 percent of Canada's Class 1 land even though only 6.8 percent of the ...
Enclosing surface drains: what's the story?
May 01, 2005; ... The enclosure of small surface watercourses in agricultural landscapes is a practice that has not received much scientific assessment. Typically, water quality concerns and issues regarding fishery resources are realized in larger rivers and lakes. There is a tendency to overlook the ...
Professional development through workshops and conferences.(SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY IN ACTION)(Calendar)
May 01, 2005 ... June 15 2005 SWCS Virginia Chapter: Groundwater Connections Dorey Park, Henrico County, VA -- The Virginia Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society invites you to an informative and useful technical workshop: Groundwater Connections: Nonpoint Source ...
Position available.(SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY IN ACTION)
May 01, 2005 ... The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)--a nonprof-it professional society dedicated to advancing the science and art of natural resource management--invites applications for the position of Professional Development Director. We have created this new position to expand the number ...
Connecting the conservation professional.(SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY IN ACTION)
May 01, 2005 ... 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 fisheries, wildlifers, forestry, soil science, water quality, climate change, planning, ...
The effect of socioeconomic factors on the adoption of best management practices in beef cattle production.(RESEARCH)
May 01, 2005; ... Large U.S. livestock and poultry production facilities are regulated using concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) and animal feeding operation (AFO) rules and are considered point sources of pollution. These operations are assigned permits under the National Pollution Discharge and ...
Challenges in conducting hydrologic and water quality research in drastically disturbed watersheds.
May 01, 2005; ... Investigations into the effects of drastic disturbance of watersheds by coal-surface mining and reclamation operations on the hydrology and water quality of watersheds were practically nonexistent before enactment of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (PL 95-87.) The ...
Irrigation return flow sourcing of sediment and flow augmentation in receiving streams: a case study.
May 01, 2005; ... Since passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act, biological, physical, and chemical integrity of U.S. streams, rivers, and lakes has become the center of much research and attention. The Water Quality Act of 1987 legislated states to set their own water quality standards, with Section 303(d) ...
Variable rainfall intensity effects on carbon characteristics of eroded sediments from two coastal plain ultisols in Georgia.
May 01, 2005; ... Carbon loss by erosive, natural rainfall events contributes to facilitated transport of chemicals and inhibits soil organic carbon build up in surface soils used for agricultural production. In the Southeast, the majority of carbon loss during an erosion event is in the solid or ...
Testing a spatially distributed sediment delivery model (SEDD) in a forested basin by cesium-137 technique.
May 01, 2005; ... Soil erosion research has established that sources of sediment are not necessarily areas involved in intense soil erosion because of the capacity of different parts of a basin to transport sediment. Identifying sediment sources and optimal allocation of soil conservation practice have ...