Technical Resources
Updated:07/14/2008
What's New?
 The
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), as a member of the U.S.
Coral Reef Task Force, endorses “International Year of the Reef (IYOR)
2008”. USDA continues to work together with our local partners to
utilize voluntary conservation practices that demonstrate improved
stewardship of agricultural lands and provide secondary benefits for
near-shore marine environments.
 Farmers
and ranchers can cut input costs, maintain production, protect soil and
water resources, reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels, and
save money by using the conservation practices described on this web
site.
FOTG - The Field Office Technical Guide
( FOTG)
is the primary scientific
reference used by NRCS in conservation activities. The FOTG is available on-line.
 Agricultural Air
Quality Task Force website serves as a repository of information about the task force, and provides public access to Federal Register notices, meeting minutes, reports and documents, and official communiqués from and about the task force.
 Ecosystem Services
- Healthy forest ecosystems are ecological life-support systems. Forests provide a full suite of goods and services that are vital to human health and livelihood – natural assets we call ecosystem services.
 Conservation Resource Briefs - State Technical Committee members, policy makers, and those establishing technical standards and specifications may find the following briefs useful in developing sound conservation decisions and policies. The briefs combine scientific studies, data and status reports from NRCS and other organizations on key resource topics of our time.
Dynamic Bibliographies -
National Agricultural Library provides on-line "dynamic bibliographies," which use a predefined search strategy to search the latest holdings of its
AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database for
the bibliography topics as well as related conservation topics.
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