Publications

Publications Available from LANDCARE

NRCS National Publications and Agency Forms are available from LANDCARE. To request these, e-mail landcare@usda.gov or phone 1-888-526-3227.

Publications Available from the Montana State Office

The following lists of publications, posters, videos, and CDs/DVDs include those currently available. To request these, contact publications. Please include your name, phone number, e-mail address and mailing address, as well as the name of the publication and the quantity you would like.

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Publications

• After the Fire: A Landowner's Guide to Programs and Services for Assistance in Montana
• America’s Private Land: Geography of Hope
• At Work on the Range Workbook (electronic format only)
• Avoid the Disaster After the Disaster - EWP
• Backyard Conservation
• Bioswales
• Bird Conservation Along the Madison – Missouri River Corridor
• Calibrating Manure Spreader Application Rates
• Celebrate Agriculture. Celebrate Earth (electronic format only)
• Challenging Careers in the NRCS
• COMET-VR: USDA Voluntary Reporting Carbon Management Tool
• Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans
• Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years
• Conservation Plan Folders
• Conservation Planning Brochure
• Conservation Planning Workbook (scroll to bottom)
• Conservation Trees and Shrubs for Montana and Wyoming
• Conservation Trees for Your Farm, Family, and Future
• Creating Native Landscapes
• Do Something "Wild"
• Drought Management on Range and Pasturelands: A Handbook for Nebraska and South Dakota
• Ecology and Management of Canada Thistle
• Ecology and Management of Dalmatian Toadflax
• Ecology and Management of Dyer’s Woad
• Ecology and Management of Field Bindweed
• Ecology and Management of Houndstongue
• Ecology and Management of Leafy Spurge
• Ecology and Management of Perennial Pepperweed
• Ecology and Management of Russian Knapweed
• Ecology and Management of Spotted Knapweed
• Ecology and Management of Yellow Toadflax
• Emergency Watershed Protection Program
• Energy Tools Information Packet
• Estimating Soil Moisture by Feel and Appearance
• Everyday is Earth Day on the Farm or Ranch Workbook (electronic format only)
• Favored Food and Cover: A Guide to Basic Habitat Needs of 15 Popular Wildlife Species
• Field Guide to Montana's Wetland Vascular Plants
• Field Indicators of Hydric Soils
• Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a World of Change (National Grazing Lands Team)
• Forest Management and Bats
• For the Good of the People
• From the Surface Down: An Introduction to Soil Surveys for Agronomic Uses
• Grass Makes Its Own Food
• Grass: The Stockman’s Crop
• Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
• Growing Carbon and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• A Guidebook for Montana Ponds
• A Measure of Snow
• Guide to Streamside Management Zone Law & Rules
• Hand-Planting Guidelines for Bareroot Trees & Shrubs
• Hands on the Earth Workbook (electronic format only)
• Helping People Help the Land in Montana: Working For NRCS (scroll to bottom)
• Helping You Help Your Land
• How to Become an Energy Superhero (electronic format only)
• How Windbreaks Work
• Human Capital Strategic Plan
• I Dig Dirt Workbook (electronic format only)
• Improving Sage Grouse Habitat through Revegetation and Rangeland Management
• In Partnership with People and a Healthy Land
• Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health (National Grazing Lands Team)
• Irrigation Diversion Structures
• Join the Earth Team
• A Landowner’s Guide to Montana Wetlands
• Landowner’s Responsibility for Installing Conservation Projects with USDA Assistance
• A Land Use Planning Map (transparency)
• Livestock Production and Water Quality in Montana: A Guide to meeting Montana's water quality regulations and achieving agricultural production goals.
• Living with Fire: A Guide for the Homeowner
• Low Impact Development
• A Measure of Snow: A Report Based on Case Studies
• Montana 2007 Agricultural Statistics
• Montana Native Plants for Pollinator-Friendly Plantings
• Montana Soils: The Color Palette
• Native Landscaping
• Natural Resources Conservation Service American Indian Outreach Brochure
• Non-Federal Grazing Lands in the United States
• NRCS Blank Cards with Envelopes
• NRCS Folders
• NRCS Identity Stickers
• NRCS Pins
• On-the-Farm Conservation
• Our Living Land
• Pervious Paving
• Planting Guidelines for Containerized and Balled and Burlapped Stock
• Plant Materials Center: Bridger Montana
• Plants for Riparian Buffers
• Ponds: Planning, Design, Construction
• Prairie Dogs and the Prairie Ecosystem
• Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan
• Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan Summary Brochure
• Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan Folder
• Rain Gardens
• Rain Gardens: Capturing and using the Rains of the Great Plains
• Restoring America's Wetlands
• Resource Conservation and Development Partnerships Serving America’s Communities
• Sampling Manure for Nutrient Management
• Sampling Soils for Nutrient Management
• Save Energy Save Money
• Sharing your Land with Shortgrass Prairie Birds
• Shoreline Protection
• Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting
• Soil and Vegetative Inventory of Near-Pristine Sites
• Soil Ecosystem Transparency
• Soil Erosion by Wind
• Soil Is Alive Activity Booklet
• Soil Profile Transparency
• Soil Quality
• Soil Quality Information Sheets for Rangeland
• Soil Quality Scorecard
• Soils of Montana
• State Technical Committees and Local Working Groups
• Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices
• Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Horses
• Technical Service Providers: Expanding Conservation Technical Assistance Capacity on Private Lands
• Technical Support for the NIRS/NUTBAL Nutritional Management System (National Grazing Lands Team)
• Urban Soil Primer
• Using Manure Analysis Results
• Voluntary Wildlife Guidelines for Streamside Management Zone
• Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program
• Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) Montana State Plan
• Web Soil Survey
• Wildfire Rehabilitation Assistance. What can you do to protect your home and property after a wildfire?
• Windbreak Establishment
• Windbreak Management
• Windbreak Renovation
• Windbreaks and Wildlife
• WRP: Restoring America’s Wetlands

Posters

• An Inch of Soil
• Backyard Conservation (Summer or Winter)
• Colors of Soil
• Conservation Can be Habitat Forming
• Sage Grouse
• Cinnamon Teal
• I Dig Dirt
• Invitation to a Healthy School Yard
• Invitation to a Healthy Country Home
• Invitation to a Healthy Yard
• Noxious Weed Treatment Quick Reference
• Our Future Flies on the Wings of Pollinators
• Wanted Poster: Insects to Improve Soil Quality
• Water Cycle: Nature’s Recycling System

Videos

• Backyard Conservation: One Yard at a Time
• Be a Volunteer
• A Better Way – Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Bitterroot Valley-Fire 2001 & EWP
• The Blackfoot Challenge
• A Clear Reflection: Forestry BMP’s
• Closing the Sale
• Communication Skills for Managers
• Tape One – Lessons 1-3
• Tape Two – Lessons 4-6
• Conservation on Your Own
• Controlling Interruptions
• Dealing With Conflict & Confrontation
• Volume One – Causes, Kinds, & Effects of Conflict
• Volume Two – Conflict Resolution Strategies: Your Options
• Volume Three – Problem-Solving in Action
• Desert Soils
• Documenting Discipline
• Door to the Future
• Driver Training/Question of Attitude
• Driver Training/Preventable: Yes or No
• Driver Training/Surviving Winter Driving
• EWP: Healing the Land
• Faces
• Farmland Protection Policy Act (CD-Based Training Program)
• The Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program
• Educational Meeting Video
• Long-Term Care Insurance #1
• Long-Term Care Insurance #2
• Long-Term Care Insurance #3
• Fish Sticks: Keeping the Vision Alive
• Go for the Gold: Reaching for the Finishing Line
• The Good Earth
• High Impact Leadership Vol. 1 & 2
• History of Buffalo Rapids
• How Chemicals Move Through the Soil
• How to Lead a Team
• Volume One – Where to Begin
• Volume Two – Building a Strong Foundation
• Volume Three – The Facilitation Toolkit
• Volume Four – A Problem-Solving & Decision-Making Toolkit
• Volume Five – Ensuring Accountability
• Volume Six – Dealing With Conflict
• Volume Seven – Leadership
• How Water Moves Through the Soil
• Identifying and Protecting Human Burial Sites
• Identifying and Protecting Traditional Cultural Places
• Improving Water Quality at Godfrey Creek
• Irrigation Flow Measurement in Piped Systems
• Keepers of the Flame
• Land for Life
• Landscape
• Linking Girls to the Land
• Listening to the Living Land: Outreach
• Making a Difference
• Meetings, Bloody Meetings
• The Milk River
• More Bloody Meetings
• NRCS: A Great Place to Work
• PEAK Performance
• The Place of the Falling Waters: 1-Before the Dam
• The Place of the Falling Waters: 2-The Road to the Dam
• The Place of the Falling Waters: 3-The Dam and the Future
• Plant Solutions for Conservation Needs
• The Prairie Pothole Region
• Protecting Surface Water with Vegetative Filter Strips
• Production Agriculture: Feeding People While Protecting the Environment
• Riparian Ranching Successes in Montana
• Roots of Stewardship: Protecting America’s Private Grazing lands
• Simple Justice – Program Discrimination Complaints at USDA (Video & Audio Cassette)
• Teampac – Avoiding Group Think
• Techniques for Restoring Wetland Topography
• The TSP Video
• Undaunted Stewardship
• USDA – Introduction to Civil Rights
• USDA Section 508 Seminar 2002 (3 Parts)
• Wealth in Wetlands
• Wildlife in Agricultural Ecosystems (A series of 28 different programs on 14 different video tapes.)
• Course Introduction & History of Agriculture
• History & Future of Agriculture
• Effects of Farm Policy on Fish & Wildlife
• Effects of Pesticides on Fish & Wildlife
• Mitigating Pesticide Effects
• Effects of Agriculture on Water Quality
• Major Crop Types as Wildlife Habitat
• Upland Crop management Systems
• Role of Private Ag Lands in Water Bird Conservation
• Edges & Ecological Traps
• Landscape Ecology & Ag Ecosystems
• Effects of Changing Ag Landscapes on Biodiversity
• Wetlands in Agricultural Ecosystems
• Riparian Reserves in Agricultural Ecosystems
• Field Borders, Fence Rows, & Shelterbelts
• Roadsides, Odd Areas, & Food Plots
• Pasture Management
• Habitat Assessment on Farmlands
• Developing a Farm Plan I
• Developing a Farm Plan II
• Federal Assistance Programs
• State Agency Assistance to Landowners
• Animal Damage in Agricultural Areas
• Managing Wildlife – Agricultural Conflicts
• Wildlife-Related Recreational Opportunities in Agricultural Areas
• Game Farming
• A Global Context to Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems
• Workplace Violence

CDs/DVDs

CDs

• Dust in the Wind
• Helping People Understand Soils: Tools for Educators
• NRCS Clipart Catalog
• Putting Yourself Out to Pasture
• Stewardship for Small Acreages
• Stream Restoration Design - National Engineering Handbook Part 654

DVDs

• Cultivating Conservation with the Bridger Plant Materials Center
• Dust in the Wind
• Land of Life: A Celebration of Wildlife Habitat on Private Lands
• Listening to the Living Land: Outreach
• Save the Sage

Publications Available On-Line

Fact Sheets
Successful Conservation Projects