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Louisiana

volunteers place sugar cane bales to help restore dunes on Fourchon Beach Innovative Dune and Beach Restoration
Louisiana’s Lafourche-Terrebonne Soil and Water Conservation District and NRCS Earth Team volunteers are working together to restore beaches, dunes, and wetlands on Fourchon Beach. Recently, local estuary program volunteers gathered to plant native wetland grasses and try some new techniques to protect the beach and build dunes.

Minnesota

Celebrating the completion of a native prairie landscape restoration project on the grounds of the Sherburne County History Center were, from left, Sherburne County Commissioner Rachel Leonard, History Center Director Kurt Kragness and Sherburne County Soil and Water Conservation District vice-chairman Lee Schlosser, Gina Hugo and Chair Deb Seeley. A $4,300 donation from the Mid-Minnesota Mississippi River Resource Conservation and Development Council was a highlight of the gathering. (Photo by David Hannula, Sherburne County Citizen..)Prairie Landscape Project Completed
NRCS RC&D and local officials gathered to observe the completion of a native prairie landscaping project at the Sherburne County, Minnesota, History Center.  The project, which involved a number of State and federal agencies working in partnership, reintroduced native plants, prairie grasses and trees.
 

 

Virginia

NRCS Soil Scientist David Harper is using a soil auger to examine soils in the York RiverVirginia Completes Its First Subaqueous Soil Survey
As part of an effort to restore declining oyster habitat, Chesapeake Bay enthusiast Christine Smith is working with NRCS to construct and seed an oyster reef.  To locate the best site for construction of the new reef in the shallow waters along Christine’s property in Gloucester, Virginia, NRCS — with Technical and financial assistance provided through the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program — undertook its first subaqueous soil survey in the State.

 

 

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2006 NRCS Hispanic Hertiage Month poster (click to see larger image)Hispanic Heritage Month Is September 15-October 15, 2006!
The theme for this year's Hispanic Heritage Month is "Hispanic Americans: Our Rich Culture Contributing to America's Future."  Learn more about the National Association of Professional Hispanic Natural Resources Conservation Service Employees.
 

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See the President's 2006 National Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation.

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Animal Waste Management (AWM) Software
AWM is a planning/design tool for animal feeding operations that can be used to estimate the production of manure, bedding, process water, and determine the size of storage/treatment facilities. The procedures and calculations used in AWM are based on the NRCS Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook.  Follow this link to learn more about NRCS AWM software,  State Databases, and the AWM User Guide.

 

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