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Alabama

(from left) Billy Smith, Elder with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Manager of Magnolia Branch, a recreational facility owned by the Tribe; Dick Coombe, NRCS Regional Conservationist, East; and Gary Kobylski, Alabama NRCS State Conservationist view stabilization of side ditches along roads that run through the Tribal land (NRCS photo)Pre-Post Hurricane EWP Work in the Yellowhammer State
NRCS Regional Assistant Chief — East Dick Coombe was in Alabama recently to view Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program sites there including those on the Poarch Band of Creek Indian reservation.

 

Minnesota

a good brushland landscape adjacent to one of the landowners participating in the cooperative sharp-tailed grouse management projects — a combination of shearing and prescribed burning is used to keep the landscape open (NRCS photo)Cooperative Brushland Conservation: Keeping the Sharptails Dancing
Thanks to a cooperative effort involving NRCS and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), conservation management of brushland habitat under both public and private ownership is making remarkable progress towards restoring habitat for the sharp-tailed grouse. 
 

Mississippi

(from left) NRCS Hattiesburg Area Conservationist Wesley Kerr, NRCS Special Assistant to Chief Peter Fullerton, Merlyn Carlson, City of Pass Christian Public Works Department Mike Pavlisick, and Mississippi NRCS State Conservationist Homer L. Wilkes (NRCS photo)Mississippi Spells Cars: N-R-C-S
NRCS and The Irrigation Association recently welcomed USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Merlyn Carlson to Mississippi for an event proclaiming July as Smart Irrigation Month.  The Byron Seward farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi, was the site for the proclamation issued by Carlson on behalf of Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns.

Smart Irrigation Month in the Magnolia State

Texas

Lynnette Payne, NRCS district conservationist in Levelland presented the cotton stripping safety program at the 2006 Farm Safety Day Camp.Agricultural Safety For Kids
Farm safety is always a concern for the families and the people who live in the farming communities.  It’s also a vital concern among laborers and their children working in the fields and around farming equipment.  Farm Safety Day in Texas links to these issues and makes learning fun.
 

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Secretary Johanns Declares July as Smart Irrigation Month
 

 

 

the NRCS exhibit highlighted cutting-edge technology used for conducting soil surveys (NRCS photo)NRCS Booth a Hit at World Congress of Soil Science
A unique exhibit, Soils - the Foundation of Life was produced especially for the 18th World Congress of Soil Science and highlighted NRCS technologies and data resources used for soil survey and resource assessment.  See images of NRCS activities during the event.

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Windows Media Player logoUSDA Video News Release Highlights the World Congress of Soil Science

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this U.S. map is unique in that it represents statewide average annual temperatures and precipitation for the period 1971-2000 that has been derived from the new high resolution (800m) PRISM datasetPRISM Reveals Statewide Climate Averages
Have you ever been asked “What’s the average precipitation or temperature for your state or county?"  In today’s world of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology, the Parameter-elevation Regression on Independent Slopes Model’s (PRISM) spatial data is well-suited to performing calculations that would normally have been impossible only a generation ago.
 

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