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The following articles, listed alphabetically by subject, have appeared in NRCS This Week
from 2004
through 2006:
Agency 70th
NRCS
Celebrates 70th Anniversary (April 27, 2005)
Agricultural Management Assistance
USDA Provides $14 Million for Agricultural
Management Assistance (February 25,
2004)
Air Quality
"Good Incentive" for Protecting Air Quality in
California (January 6, 2004)
Veneman Announces First Air
Quality Awards (March 17, 2004)
NRCS Helps Farmers Comply With New Air Standards
(California, June 30, 2004)
Air
Quality (October 27, 2004)
Alternative Enterprises
< color="#000080">
Alternative
Enterprises and Agritourism Resources
<>(May 12, 2004)
Anaerobic Digesters
California
Dairy Runs on Manure Power (June
2, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Idaho
Dairies to Get EQIP Funds for Anaerobic Digesters
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 24, 2004)
Animal Agriculture
Documenting Permeability of Soils for an Animal Waste Storage Pond
(January 21, 2004)
Web Version of Nutbal PRO Tested
(March 3, 2004)
Marketing Poultry Litter: Alabama Program to
Distribute, Clean, Profit
(March
10, 2004)
Iowa State University Offers
CAFO Fact Sheets, NRCS Collaborates
(March 31, 2004)
California
Dairy Runs on Manure Power (June
2, 2004)
Massachusetts
Goat Producer Gets Pasture-ized!
(August 4, 2004)
Awards
Employees Honored at Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) Award Ceremony
(February 10, 2004)
NRCS Federal Engineer of the Year Winner Recognized
(Feb. 10, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
NRCS National Small Farm of Year Award
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(Feb. 18, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Society for Range Management Meeting Provides
Setting for Awards< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(Feb. 18, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">< Outreach Community Hmong>
2004
National Wetland Award Winners Announced< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(May 5, 2004)
NRCS
State Conservationist Wins Major Award
(Alabama, June 16, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
State
Historical Society Recognizes NRCS (June 23, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Gary
A. Margheim Named Presidential Award
of Rank Executive Service Meritorious Executive (June 23, 2004)
Californian Wins NRCS Excellence in Conservation
Award
(June 23, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS Employees Receive USDA Honor Awards
(June 23, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Heard to Receive 2004 Award for Sustained Achievement (September 1,
2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Peterson Nominated for Service to America Medal (September 1, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Conservation Technology Information Center to Award
Four Educational Watershed Models (November 10, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Dale Bruce Wins 2004 Super Supervisor Award (November 24, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
New
England Small Farm Institute Awarded USDA Grant (December 8, 2004)
Boy
Scouts Bestow Dual Honors on NRCS (March 16, 2005)
Illinois
Soil Conservationist Named No. 1 in His Field (March 23, 2005)
NRCS
Employees Receive Society for Range Management (SRM) Awards (April 6,
2005)
Ross
Braun Receives Prestigious Award (April 27, 2005)
Chief
Knight Presents the NRCS Excellence in Conservation Award to the Partnership for
Turtle Creek (April 27, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Backyard Conservation
Audubon, NRCS Launch Backyard Conservation
Website
(March 3, 2004)
For
Missouri Soil Specialist, Conservation Begins at Home
(May 19, 2004)
Progressive
Farmer Idea House and Farmstead (Tennessee, June 2, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Earth Team
Artists Create Backyard “Masterpiece”
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 23, 2004)
Biomass
Bio-combustion Project Will Provide Heat at New Mexico Hospital (January
21, 2004)
ISU, State of Iowa Receives NRCS Funding for Biomass Research Effort
(March 17, 2004)
DOE and USDA Award $25
Million in Joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative
(July 21, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Montana RC&D's Fuels Reduction Projects Get Huge Boost from Grant
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 4, 2004)
USDA and DOE Announce Up to $15 Million in Grants for Biomass Research and
Development Projects (December
22, 2004)
USDA and DOE Announce Up to $15 Million in Grants for Biomass Research and
Development Projects--Pre-Applications Due February 15, 2005 (December
29, 2004)<>< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
Bobwhite Quail Restoration Project
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
USDA Awards $1.2 Million for Bobwhite Quail Habitat Restoration
<>
(August 24, 2004)
Buffers
Progress Toward Two Million-Mile Buffer Goal (January 14, 2004)
Kansas Buffer Award Winners Praise NRCS, District
(February 25, 2004)
Progress Toward Two Million-Mile Buffer Goal
(March 10, 2004)
Buffer
Streams
(Tennessee, August 4, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>Chesapeake
Bay
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Grants
Aim to Improve Chesapeake Bay Watershed< Outreach Community Hmong> (November 3, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Climate Change
< color="#000080">
Chief
Knight Discusses Climate Change in South America
<>(December
15, 2004)<>
Colorado River
USDA Provides $19.8 Million to Control Salinity in the Colorado River Basin
(April 14, 2004)
NRCS
Provides $19.5 Million for Salinity Control
(November 3, 2004)
Competitive Sourcing
National
Cartography and Geospatial Center (NCGC) Restructure
(August 4, 2004)
Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(Jan. 27, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Mapleline
Farm Celebrates New Milk Facility and Conservation Work with Open House
<>< Outreach Community Hmong>(July
7, 2004)
Confined Animal Feeding Operations
Iowa State University Offers
CAFO Fact Sheets, NRCS Collaborates
(March 31, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Grants
USDA Announces Conservation Effects Assessment
Project Grant Recipients (October 6,
2004)
Conservation Districts
Weeding Out the Problem (< Outreach Community Hmong Event<>January
6, 2004)
Conservation Officials Tour Isle Projects (February 3, 2004)
While Weather’s Cold, District's West Nile
Prevention Plan in Works (Feb.
10, 2004)
California District to Keep Habitat "Out of Circulation Forever" (Feb.
25, 2004)
NRCS Georgia, District Get Head Start on Arbor Day (Feb. 25, 2004)
Virginia's First Dam Rehabilitation Project
Begins
(March 3,
2004)
District to Restore Stream Bank, Improve Water Quality in Pennsylvania Scenic
River (March 3, 2004)
Florida District Shows Homeowners How to Reduce Water Usage
(March 24, 2004)
New
Jersey District Leads Pilot Program to Replace Trees Lost to Storm
(March 31, 2004)
Contest is Good Dirty
Fun (Nebraska, March 31, 2004)
Lake George Shoreland Restoration Project--St. Cloud, Minnesota
(April 7, 2004)
California
District's "Growth Spurt" Boosts Projects for Fish, Forests
(April 7, 2004)
District, NRCS Improve Water
Quality, Quantity in Idaho County (April 7, 2004)
New York Districts
Get Grants for Ag Runoff Control Projects
(April 14, 2004)
District Grant to
Improve Water Quality Near Pennsylvania Dirt Roads
(May 19, 2004)
District to
Remove Invasives, Restore New Mexico Creek (June 2, 2004)
Conservation District
“Partner and Friend” to Farmers Says North Carolina Newspaper (June 9,
2004)
Massachusetts
Cranberry Farm Tour Marks 10 Years of Conservation Planning (June 30,
2004)
District,
NRCS Work on Restoration Plan for Mine Drainage Sites in Pennsylvania Watershed
(July 14, 2004)
District
Helps Homeowners Create Lakescape on Minnesota Property (July 14,
2004)
Lush
Landfill Brings Life to North Carolina Trash Pile
(August 11, 2004)
Pennsylvania District Funds Road Improvement Projects
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 11, 2004)
New Mexico
District is Out to get the "Guzzler"
(September 8, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
California District Oversees $3 Million Pacific Flyway Project
(September 15, 2004)
California
District Helps Watershed Look Like Its Old Self Again (November 24,
2004)
Hawaii
District Marks 50 Years of Protecting Land
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(November 24, 2004)
Alaska
District, Volunteers Build Bridges for Salmon
(December 1, 2004)
NRCS,
District Help Montana School Shore Up River Bank (December 1, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS,
Alabama Partners Protect Wildlife Near Power Lines
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>(December 22, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Wyoming
District's Beetles Battle Invasive Weed
(December 29, 2004)
Conservation Education
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
Management Intensity Workshops to be Held
(February 10, 2004)
Soil Science Institute II Course (February 18, 2004)
NRCS Helps to Develop Boy Scout Fieldbook, 4th
Edition (March 10, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS Makes Nebraska Kids "Coo-Coo" for No-till
(March 24, 2004)
Contest is Good Dirty
Fun (Nebraska, March 31, 2004)
Wyoming College Inks
Land Deal for Agriculture Program (May 26, 2004)
< color="#000080">
If You Dig It, Will It Fill? Pond Construction Detailed at Texas Field Day
<>(June 2, 2004)
Trice Calls Arkansas
Outdoor Classroom Habitat "Special"
(July 21, 2004)
NRCS Creates Asian Pacific Islander Pilot Scholarship Program
(August 4, 2004)
NRCS Helps
Louisiana Dairy Producers Boost Stewardship
(August 11, 2004)
NRCS
Assists Girl Scouts in Linking Girls to the Land Eco-Expo IV (October 6,
2004)
Living
Soil Tunnel a Success in Southern Minnesota (October 13, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
Secretary Veneman Announces $162,500 In Education Grants to FFA
Accepts Distinguished Service Citation for USDA's Contribution to Agricultural
Education
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(November 3, 2004)
This Clod's No Bore for
Lincoln Park Zoo Visitors (November 10, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS,
District Help Montana School Shore Up River Bank
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 1, 2004)
NRCS
Helps Virginia Scouts Grow Respect for Nature (March 30, 2005)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Conservation Effects Assessment Project
NRCS
Unveils Web Site on Conservation Effects Assessment Project
(April 21, 2004)
USDA to Assess Environmental
Benefits of Conservation Programs
<> (July
28, 2004)
Conservation Partnership Initiative
USDA Provides Up to $1 Million in New Conservation Partnership
Initiative Grants (July 28,
2004)
Grants
Aim to Improve Chesapeake Bay Watershed (November 3, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Conservation
Partnership
Innovation Grants< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
USDA Releases $15 Million
and Interim Final Rule for Conservation Innovation Grants
(March 31, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
USDA
Helps Fund Conservation Technologies and Approaches
(September 15, 2004)
NRCS Awards New Conservation Partnership
Initiative Grants (November 3, 2004)
Up to $1 Million Available for Conservation Partnership Initiative
Grants—Proposals Due Feb. 17, 2005
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 22, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong>Conservation Planning
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
NRCS
Assistance for Andrew Jackson’s Historic Hermitage Farm
< Outreach Community Hmong>(February 3, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>< Outreach Community Hmong>
Grazing
System Makes a Colorado Ranch Family National Winners (October 27, 2004)<>
Arizona Farmers and
Rancher Practice Conservation Work Ethic<>
(April 6, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Conservation Security Program
Special Assistant Margheim Talks CSP at Beltwide Cotton Conferences
(<>January
14, 2004)
Chief Knight Tours Mississippi, Talks CSP
(<>January 27, 2004)
Conservation
Security Program Comments (April 7, 2004)
Conservation Security Program:
The Watershed Approach (May 5, 2004)
Umatilla:
Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
(June 9, 2004)
Secretary Veneman Announces Interim Final Rule for Conservation Security
Program -- Sign Up to Begin July 6 < Outreach Community Hmong Event
(June 9, 2004)
Moses
Coulee: Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
(June 16, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Lemhi:
Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
(June 23, 2004)
Conservation
Security Program Self-Assessment Workbook Released< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(June 23, 2004)
Conservation
Security Program Sign-Up Announced — July 6-30, 2004 — and Interim Final Rule
Released< Outreach Community Hmong Event
< Outreach Community Hmong Event(June 23, 2004)
Lower
Little Blue and Lower Salt Fork Watersheds:
Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile < Outreach Community Hmong Event< Outreach Community Hmong Event(June
30, 2004)
East
Nishnabotna and Blue Earth Watersheds: Conservation Security Program Watershed
Profile (July 7, 2004)
Lower
Chippewa and Kishwaukee Watersheds:
Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(July 14, 2004)
St. Joseph
and Auglaize Watersheds: Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
< Outreach Community Hmong Event(July
21, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Raystown
Watershed: Conservation Security Program Watershed Profile
< Outreach Community Hmong Event(July
28, 2004)
More than 200
Wisconsin Farmers Apply for CSP
(August 11, 2004)
USDA Announces First Conservation Security Program Contract Signings
(August 24, 2004)
Conservation
Security Program Contract Signings
(September 1, 2004)
USDA Selects Watersheds for CSP 2005 Sign-Up
(November 3, 2004)
USDA Announces Efforts to Enhance Ohio River Basin
(November 3, 2004)
CSP Pilot Program in South Carolina: Alfalfa Producer Rewarded for Conservation
Excellence (December 22, 2004)
USDA
Announces Sign-Up for 2005 Conservation Security Program (March 23, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
CSP
2004 Contract Holders Set to Receive Second-Year Payment (April 13, 2005)
Conservation Tillage
National Survey Shows More Farmers Choose Conservation
(December 1, 2004)
Coral Reefs
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS to Participate in U.S. Coral Reef Task Force
Meeting (Feb. 10, 2004)
Hanalei
Bay Reefs are Focus of Federal Study
(April 14, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Cultural Resources
A
Grave Situation (Connecticut,
August 11, 2004)
NRCS
Goes Hi-Tech Sleuthing at Connecticut’s Stowe House (October 20, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Dams
Virginia's First Dam Rehabilitation Project
Begins (March 3, 2004)
Watershed Dams Save Millions
(Oklahoma, March 24, 2004)
Hackberry
Dam Holds Back Deluge
(New Mexico, April 21, 2004)
First
Dam in Georgia to be Rehabilitated with Federal Funds (May 5, 2004)
Nebraska
Watershed Dams Did What They’re Supposed to Do
(June 9, 2004)
Disaster Prevention and Recovery
NRCS Project to Bring Flood Prevention, Irrigation Water to Saipan
(February 25, 2004)
Protecting
Flood-Prone Houses (March 10, 2004)
New
Jersey District Leads Pilot Program to Replace Trees Lost to Storm
(March 31, 2004)
Drought
Pasture Grasses Increase Forage Production
(April 7, 2004)
Four-legged
Firefighters on Display in Southern California (November 24, 2004)
NRCS
Provides $3.2 Million for Natural Disaster Recovery in Utah (March 23, 2005)
Drought
Colorado
Hay Growers' First Crop of Season Makes the Cut
(June 9, 2004)
Earth
Day 2005 (April 13, 2005)
Earth Day 2005 Photo
Features (May 4, 2005)
eGovernment
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with
New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(<>January 27, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Veneman Announces Availability Of Electronic
"Customer Statement" (March 10,
2004)
USDA Supports New Conservation Planning Software
(March 10, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Earth Day 2004
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
President Announces Wetlands Initiative on Earth Day
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong Event< Outreach Community Hmong>
Rey Presents
Conservation Award to Washington Children's Settlement
(April 28, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000" Event
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Chief Knight Celebrates Earth Day at Minnesota Wetlands Project
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000" Event
NRCS,
Conservation District and Town Officials Work to Restore Vegetation along
Sawmill River in Western Massachusetts
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Earth Team Joins America’s Clean Water Foundation for 2004 World Water
Monitoring Day (May 26,
2004)
Montana
Earth Team Volunteers Help Complete Tree
Planting Project (July 14, 2004)
< color="#000080">
Earth
Team and First State RC&D Project Make Things Happen
<>
(August 19, 2004)<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Earth Team Volunteer Program
2003 Earth Team Award Winners Announced (<>January< Outreach Community Hmong>
27, 2004)
NRCS Arizona All-Star Volunteer Effort
(February 3, 2004)
Chief
Presents Earth Team National Volunteer Service Award
(March 31, 2004)
Arkansas High FFA
Students Win Earth Team Group Award
(April 14, 2004)
Brain Food for Thought –
About Watershed Health
(June 2, 2004)
Vic
Ruhland (Still) Making a Difference in Minnesota (June 9, 2004)
Earth
Team Volunteers Serious about Water Quality
(June 16, 2004)
Earth Team
Artists Create Backyard “Masterpiece”
(June 23, 2004)
Hay Lake Makeover (Arizona, June
30, 2004)
South
Carolina Nursing Students Volunteer to Make a Difference
(July 7, 2004)
Earth
Team and RC&D Partner for Successful Scrap Tire Recycling
(July 28, 2004)
New Earth Team Fact Sheets Available
(July 28, 2004)
“Stream Team” Volunteers Take to the Field
(August 4, 2004)
Community Gardens
Get Earth Team Assistance
(August 24, 2004)
Outdoor Classroom Gets Earth Team Help
(September 1, 2004)
Double
Honors for Indiana Earth Team Volunteers (September
8, 2004)
U.S.
Army Joins the Earth Team (September 15, 2004)
Volunteering for
Just About Everything
(September 29, 2004)
Earth
Team Student Volunteers Donate Nearly 800 Hours of Service (October 6,
2004)
R.E. Gallman:
Just Keeps on Going (October 13, 2004)
< color="#000080">
Southern
Maryland Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) Board Receives Award
<>
(October 20, 2004)
True
Volunteer (October 27, 2004)
Volunteer
Students Contribute to Mapping Work (November 3, 2004)
Louisiana
Volunteers Treat Agricultural Runoff (November 10, 2004)
Tour
des Farms II (Connecticut,
November 17, 2004)
Connecticut
Earth Team “Ramping-Up”
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 1, 2004)
Earth Team Volunteer “Lights-up” Lawrence County,
Illinois (December 15, 2004)
Maine
Earth Team Volunteer Builds Boxes for Wetland Birds
(December 29, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Emergency Watershed Protection Program
NRCS Arizona All-Star Volunteer Effort
(February 3, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
USDA Provides $150 Million for Wildfire Recovery
Efforts in California (February 18,
2004)
EWP Projects Save Homes in Utah
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
USDA Applies
Mulch to Prevent Erosion of Colorado Fire Area
(May 19, 2004)
NRCS
Funds Canal Repairs in Hurricane-struck Louisiana Parish (July 14,
2004)
Southern
California Tree Removal Effort Goes into High Gear (August 19, 2004)
Secretary
Veneman Tours Agriculture Areas Hit By Hurricane Charley; USDA Provides Wide
Ranging Assistance (August 25, 2004)
NRCS Provides $500,000 for
Wildfire Recovery Efforts in Alaska (September 8, 2004)
USDA Provides Additional $1
Million for Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Florida (September 15, 2004)
NRCS Supports
Washington Flood Control Effort (October 6, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Minnesota
Flood Control Project Offers Lessons to Future Engineers< color="#000080">
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(October 6, 2004)
Florida
Hurricane Cleanup Making a Difference
(December 15, 2004)
Florida Hurricane
Canal Cleanup about Halfway Done in Cape Coral (January 26, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Florida
Hurricane Victims Cheer NRCS-funded Debris Removal Project (April 27, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Employee Profiles
NRCS Engineer Doing Good Work in the Tradition of
Her American Indian Heritage
(February 18, 2004)
NRCS
Conservationist Returns from Afghanistan (March 31, 2004)
Max
Schnepf Retires After 40-Year Career in Natural Resources (March 31,
2004)
Stan
Fox Packs It In (April 14, 2004)
NRCS
Is a Winning Family (June 2,
2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Sam
and the Seven Baby Groundhogs
(June 9, 2004)
Smoking
Chain (Virginia, August 4, 2004)
NRCS Soil Artist to Exhibit in South Dakota
(August 11, 2004)
Dana
York Selected Associate Chief <>
(August 11, 2004)
Minnesota Retiree
Chronicles Conservation (August
24, 2004)
Area
Food Drive Fights Hunger (Minnesota, September 29, 2004)
Remembering D. Keith Parlette (November 24, 2004)
Late NRCS
Employee's Conservation Photo Collection Donated to New Jersey District
(December 29, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Endangered Species
Montana
Ranchers Recruited to Aid Arctic Grayling
(March 30, 2005)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Energy Production< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Farm Bill-funded
Wind Turbine Cranks Out Voltage for Idaho Farm (June 16, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Environmental Quality Incentives Program
EQIP Calms Wind Erosion in North Central Montana
(<>January< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
6, 2004)
A Close Call For Bobwhite Quail
(Southeastern
U.S.,
<>
January< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
6, 2004)
Rangeland Sports Knee-High Grass in Drought of
2003 (New Mexico, Jan. 21, 2004)
Brothers Enhance Farm with EQIP
(Montana, Jan. 21, 2004)
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with
New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(Jan. 27, 2004)
EQIP Helps California Farmers Avoid Nematode
Infestations
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Utah River Clearing, with Help of Farmer
(Feb. 10, 2004)
NRCS Customer, EQIP Refresh San Joaquin River (Feb. 18, 2004)
Marketing Poultry Litter: Alabama Program to
Distribute, Clean, Profit (March
10, 2004)
EQIP Helps Alabama Landowner with Small Acreage
Accomplish Goals
(April 7, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
USDA Provided $32 Million
For Limited Resource Producers Through The Environmental Quality Incentives
Program (April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Partnership Saves Historical Idaho Site
< Outreach Community Hmong> < Outreach Community Hmong>(May
5, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Laotian
Farmers Learn about EQIP (May
19, 2004)
NRCS Helps Montana
Couple Deal with Wetland Violations (May 26, 2004)
EQIP Helps Iowan Meet Future Feedlot Regulations
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong>(May 26, 2004)
A
West Virginia Farm Bill Success Story
(June 2, 2004)
"High-tech Watering Hole" Part of California Rancher's Stewardship
(June 9, 2004)
EQIP
Program Scores Well in Customer Satisfaction
(June 16, 2004)
EQIP a "Pipeline" to Solving Idaho Irrigation Problem
(June 30, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Montana Irrigators and NRCS to Save Water and Save Species
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 30, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
High Tech for Texas EQIP
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 30, 2004)
Labor
of Love: Rancher Uses EQIP to Improve Idaho Ranch
(July 7, 2004)
Mapleline
Farm Celebrates New Milk Facility and Conservation Work with Open House
(July 7, 2004)
Chief
Knight Views Federal Projects at California Cattle Ranch
(July 14, 2004)
USDA Awards $12 Million in
Environmental Quality Incentives Program Funds to 14 States (July 21,
2004)
EQIP Helps
Producers Cut Cows' Impacts on Minnesota Creek (July 28, 2004)
USDA to Provide $8.5 Million to 13 States for Nutrient Management
Practices (August 4, 2004)
Montana Ranchers Join EQIP to Protect Arctic Grayling
(August 11, 2004)
Idaho
Dairies to Get EQIP Funds for Anaerobic Digesters (August 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Reservation Benefits
from Farm Bill Programs
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(September 8, 2004)
USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean
Area (November 3, 2004)
NRCS Provides Up to $4 Million for Livestock Producers in Arizona and
New Mexico <>(November
3, 2004)
NRCS
Kansas' EQIP Self-Assessment Tool Helps Producers, Cuts Costs
(December 29, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">Events
NRCS to Participate in Agricultural Outlook Forum 2004 (January 14,
2004)
NRCS to Exhibit at Public Service Recognition
Week Mall Activities (April 28,
2004)
Agricultural
Outlook Forum 2005 on Feb. 24 and 25, 2005 (November 24, 2004)
USDA
Agricultural Outlook Forum Set For Feb. 24-25, 2005
(December 22, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Stewardship
Week 2005: Celebrate Conservation (April 27, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
Montana’s Largest Farmland Protection Easement Purchased (February 18,
2004)
Easement Protects Precious
Montana Farmland (March
3, 2004)
Web Site Offers Farmland Preservation Resources
(March 10, 2004)
Pennsylvania Battlefield Saved from Development
(March 17, 2004)
USDA to Provide $84 Million
to Protect Farm and Ranch Land (March 17, 2004)
A Rhode Island Farm will
Remain (April 14, 2004)
Musical Great Skitch
Henderson Preserves Connecticut Farmland (April 21, 2004)
NRCS Funds Preserves
Historic Farm in New Hampshire
(May 12, 2004)
Georgia Farmland Land Will Stay Green Forever
(June 2, 2004)
North Dakota Land,
"Prime Piece for Development," Now Under Easement (June 9,
2004)
"Checking"
Development in Northwest Wisconsin
(July 28, 2004)
USDA to Provide Nearly $6
Million to Protect Farmlands in 32 States
(August 4, 2004)
Tennessee Farmer
Becomes First in State to Join Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
< color="#000080">
(September
15, 2004)
Keeping
the Green Mountain State Green (September 29, 2004)
Massachusetts Dairy Producer Relieved to See Farm Protected
(October 6, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
< color="#000080">
USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean
Area <>
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
(November 3, 2004)
USDA
Provides More than $78 Million to Protect Farm and Ranch Land (November
24, 2004)
FRPP Funds Go to
Montana County's Largest Easement
(December 15, 2004)
Largest
Conservation Easement Ever Funded in Montana County Protects More Than 16 Square
Miles from Development (December 22, 2004)
Farm and Ranch Lands
Protection Program Helps Preserve Washington Town's Last Dairy Farm (March
30, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Maine Family Farm
Expands and Thrives with Help from Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
(April 27, 2005)
Funding for Programs
Secretary Veneman Announces the Release of $1.6 Billion for Voluntary
Conservation Programs on Working Lands (October 27, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Grassland Reserve Program
Grasslands Bill Appeals to Montana Rancher (<>January< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
6, 2004)
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with
New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(January 27, 2004)
USDA Announces Interim Final
Rule and Public Comment Period for the Grassland Reserve Program
(May 12, 2004)
NRCS
and FSA Conduct Joint GRP Teleconference (May 26, 2004)
USDA Provides $2 Million for Sage Grouse Conservation and Recovery in Four
Western States (August 24, 2004)
Idaho Ranchers Balance Smart Grazing and
Wildlife Habitat (September 1,
2004)
NRCS Provides Additional $1.9 Million for Grasslands
Conservation in 11 States (October 6, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean
Area <>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(November 3, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Grasslands
Songs
of the Sky: Partnership Pilot Program, Fire Aim to Restore Grasslands, Migratory
Songbirds
(March 17, 2004)
NRCS,
Extension Book Offers Data on Seeding Pastures in Montana and Wyoming
(March 31, 2004)
Gray, R. Mack, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural
Resources and Environment
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Massachusetts Cranberry Growers Honor Deputy
Under Secretary R. Mack Gray
(March 10, 2004)
Under
Secretary Gray Presents Learning Center Designation to Iowa Museum and Aquarium
(June 30, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
International
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS Assists Ghana in Agriculture and
Rural Development
(February 18, 2004)
Ukrainians Look at No-till Farm Practices
(April 21, 2004)
NRCS
Assists El Salvador with Horizontal Wells Project
(April 20, 2004)
SWCS and
NRCS Go International (May 12,
2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS
Soil Scientists Conduct Soils/GIS Workshop in Ghana
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 23, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
USDA
and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences to Release Bilingual
Conservation Publication
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 4, 2004)
European
Visitors Tour South Carolina Farms
(November 17, 2004)
Global Experience Program Available to NRCS
(December 15, 2004)
NRCS
China Technology Exchange (March 23, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
Irrigation
NRCS Project to Bring Flood Prevention,
Irrigation Water to Saipan (Feb.
25, 2004)
Invasive Species
Weeding Out the Problem (California, Jan. 6, 2004)
Partnering Provides Assistance for Phragmites Control in Delaware
(Jan. 14, 2004)
Salt
Cedar Removal Project Already Showing Change in New Mexico
(April 21, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
District to
Remove Invasives, Restore New Mexico Creek
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 2, 2004)
Invasives Out,
Good Grasses In at Connecticut WHIP Site (June 9, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
California
District Helps Watershed Look Like Its Old Self Again
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(November 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Wyoming
District's Beetles Battle Invasive Weed
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 29, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Invasive
Species Control Highlighted in PMC Document (April 13, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
Johanns,
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Mike,
USDA Secretary
Secretary
Johanns Visits USDA/NRCS Service Center March 16, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS
Transfers Wetlands to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (April 13, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">< Outreach Community Hmong>
Klamath Basin
USDA
Releases Additional $7.3 Million for the Klamath Basin and a Report on
Partnership Conservation Accomplishments
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Knight, Bruce I. Chief, Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Winter is a Busy Season for NRCS
(<>January< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">< Outreach Community Hmong> 21, 2004)
Chief Knight Tours Mississippi, Talks CSP
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with
New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Chief Knight, Deputy Chief Clark to Moderate Ag
Outlook Forum Sessions
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Conservation Officials Tour Isle Projects (Feb. 3, 2004)
Chief
Presents Earth Team National Volunteer Service Award
(March 31, 2004)
Chief
Knight's 2004 Earth Day Message
(April 21, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Chief Knight Celebrates Earth Day at Minnesota Wetlands Project
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(April 28, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000000" Event
Chief Knight Tours Nation's First
First Ag Wetland Mitigation Bank
(April 28, 2004)
Chief
Knight Discusses Drought in New Mexico
(June 2, 2004)
Chief
Knight Tours Conservation Work on California Ranch (June 30, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Chief
Knight Views Federal Projects at California Cattle Ranch
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(July 14, 2004)
Chief
Knight Discusses Climate Change in South America
(December 15, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Limited Resource Farmers
USDA
Provided $32 Million For Limited Resource Producers Through The Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (April 28, 2004)
USDA
Announces $6 Million for New Initiative for Limited Resource Farmers
(March 16, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
my.NRCS
Have
You Seen the my.NRCS Lately?
(March 31, 2004)
Another Good
Reason to Check my.NRCS (August
4, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
No-till
NRCS Makes Nebraska Kids "Coo-Coo" for No-till
(March 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
National Survey Shows More Farmers Choose Conservation
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(December 1, 2004)
Nutrient Management
< color="#000080">
USDA to Provide $8.5 Million to 13 States for Nutrient Management
Practices
<>
(August 4, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Organic Agriculture
Going Organic? Go Here First! (Jan. 21, 2004)
<>Outreach
New
Old Computers or Old New Computers?
(May 12, 2004)
Lights!
Cameras! Conservation!< Outreach Community Hmong><>
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(May 12, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Laotian
Farmers Learn about EQIP
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(May
19, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Virginia RC&D Opens 300-Mile Historic Civil Rights Trail
< Outreach Community Hmong> (May 19, 2004)
Thriving Navajo Rug
Business “Looms” on the Horizon
(June 16, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS North Carolina Gets Taste of Lumbee Life
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 4, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS Creates Asian Pacific Islander Pilot Scholarship Program
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 4, 2004)
Canby Creek Project Completed
(October 27, 2004)
Illinois
Food Resources Bank Growing Project (November 17, 2004)
NRCS,
Partners to Make New Hampshire Trails Accessible to Handicapped Persons
(November 17, 2004)
Outreach
to Our Constituents (November 24, 2004)
Conservation
Partnerships Diversity Conference (December 8, 2004)
Nominations
for the 2004 Diversity Awards Ends December 10
(December 8, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Partnerships
Partnering Provides Assistance for Phragmites Control in Delaware
(January 14, 2004)
Texas Lake Removed From Impaired List; NRCS and Partners Reduce Atrazine
(Jan. 14, 2004)
Largest Tall Grass Prairie Restoration Project
(Minnesota, Jan. 27, 2004)
NRCS, Corps Sign Agreement to Improve
Conservation Services in Arkansas
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Partnership Formed to Protect Michigan Watersheds
(Feb. 10, 2004)
Partnership Brings Sweet Smell of Cooperation (Maine, Feb. 10, 2004)
Habitat to Benefit from New NRCS Liaison
(Feb. 18, 2004)
Easement Protects Precious
Montana Farmland (March
3, 2004)
Audubon, NRCS Launch Backyard Conservation
Website (March 3, 2004)
Partners in Protecting Minnesota's
Waterfowl (March
3, 2004)
Web Site Offers Farmland Preservation Resources
(March 10, 2004)
Missouri
Forms Partnership with Rehabilitation Institute (March 31,
2004)
NRCS,
Audubon Conserve Nearly 1,500 Acres of Wisconsin Habitat
(April 7, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Partnership Saves Historical Idaho Site
< Outreach Community Hmong> < Outreach Community Hmong>(May
5, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Environmentalism
that Works (May 5, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Goat
Island Restoration Celebrated in Texas
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(May 26, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited to
Convert Arkansas Property to Wetlands
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>(June
9, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited Break Ground on Illinois Wetland Project
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 16, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
New
Ohio Wetland Preserves Plants and Wildlife, Site for Education and Recreation< color="#000080">
<>
(June 16, 2004)
USDA
Signs Agreement with Ducks Unlimited
(July 28, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Partnership
Brings Minnesota Wetland Back "Full Circle"
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 4, 2004)
USDA Signs
Agreement with Association of Consulting Foresters of America
(October 20, 2004)
NRCS,
Alabama Partners Protect Wildlife Near Power Lines (December 22, 2004)
USDA Signs
Agreement with American Fisheries Society <>
(December 22, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS
Helps Virginia Scouts Grow Respect for Nature
(March 30, 2005)
Alabama
Partnership Works to Improve Water Quality (April 20, 2005)
Pastureland
NRCS,
Extension Book Offers Data on Seeding Pastures in Montana and Wyoming
(March 31, 2004)
Performance Measurement
Finding Common Ground (Feb. 3, 2004)
Plant Materials
PLANTS
Usage Increases in FY 2003
(Jan. 6, 2004)
NRCS Arizona All-Star Volunteer Effort
(Feb. 3, 2004)
NRCS PLANTS Website Among "Top 50" Government
Innovations In America (Feb. 10,
2004)
New Plant Materials Center to Rehabilitate Nevada Rangelands
(March 24, 2004)
New NRCS California
Pubs Feature Foothills, Culturally Significant Plants
(April 7, 2004)
Drought
Pasture Grasses Increase Forage Production
(April 7, 2004)
Highlander
Eastern Gamagrass Released
(April 7, 2004)
Symbols
for Unknown Plants Developed
(April 28, 2004)
PLANTS
Database Usage Continues to Increase
(June 2, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Culturally
Significant Plants Presentation
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 9, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
New
Features in PLANTS Plant Profiles
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(July 7, 2004)
Hawaiian Island Restoration
(September 8, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>< Outreach Community Hmong>
Woody
Plants Highlight Minnesota Forestry Tour
(September 15, 2004)
Plant
Materials Program (October 20, 2004)
Cowpea
Cover Crops Benefit Citrus Producers in California’s Coachella Valley
(December 29, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Seeding
Out the Weeds in Nevada (April 20, 2005)
Ponds
If You Dig It, Will It Fill? Pond Construction Detailed at Texas Field Day
(June 2, 2004)
Bass-rearing Ponds
Planned by NRCS to Draw Attention to Eroding Louisiana Wetlands
<>
(June 2, 2004)
Program Information
Where Conservation Dollars are Working and Much More
(March 17, 2004)
Publications
New NRCS California
Pubs Feature Foothills, Culturally Significant Plants
(April 7, 2004)
Idaho
District Conservationist Pens Book on Stockmanship
(July 21, 2004)
USDA
and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences to Release Bilingual
Conservation Publication (August
4, 2004)
NRCS
Worker Preaches Stockmanship in New Book
(August 19, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Minnesota Retiree
Chronicles Conservation
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Rangeland
Rangeland Sports Knee-High Grass in Drought of
2003 (New Mexico, January 21, 2004)
New Plant Materials Center to Rehabilitate Nevada Rangelands
(March 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
NRCS
Worker Preaches Stockmanship in New Book
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 19, 2004)
Reorganization
NRCS
Approved Reorganization Web
Page (May 12, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Recycling
KDA
Recycling Programs Near Milestones
(April 20, 2005)
Resource Conservation and Development
Fayette
County, TN, Included In Chickasaw-Shiloh RC&D Council (Feb. 3, 2004)
Before and After ̀a
la RC&D (March 3, 2004)
Iowa RC&D's Proposed 7-county Trail Picks Up Resources (March 24, 2004)
New
Mexico Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council Marks 40th
Anniversary (April 7, 2004)
Nebraska
RC&D Honors Corps of Discovery Member
(April 14, 2004)
Pilgrim RC&D Offers Ag
Commission Toolkit on CD-ROM (April 21, 2004)
Virginia RC&D Opens 300-Mile Historic Civil Rights Trail
(May 19, 2004)
A Harvest of Goodwill
(May 26, 2004)
RC&D
Helps 'Water Buffalo' Roll into Georgia Community
(May 26, 2004)
< color="#000080">
Thriving Navajo Rug
Business “Looms” on the Horizon
<> (June 16, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
More Wetland Acres Returning in Southeast Wisconsin
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 30, 2004)
Iowa RC&D Has "Passport" to Lewis and Clark Experience< color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana" Event
(June 30, 2004)
NRCS Salutes RC&D 40th
Anniversary (July 14, 2004)
First
RC&D Project Anniversary Observed
(July 21, 2004)
Iowa
RC&D, Partners Purchase Fire Equipment for Controlled Burns
(July 28, 2004)
Montana RC&D's Fuels Reduction Projects Get Huge Boost from Grant
(August 4, 2004)
Kentucky Lake Nears Completion
(August 4, 2004)
Earth
Team and First State RC&D Project Make Things Happen (August
19, 2004)
RC&D Helps Local Firefighters
in Tennessee (October 13, 2004)
Southern
Maryland Resource Conservation & Development Board Receives Award
(October 20, 2004)
Community
Garden Helps Feed Needy Northern Indiana Families (November 3, 2004)
An
Ounce of Prevention… (New Mexico, November 17, 2004)
Pennsylvania
RC&D Project Calls Attention to Streams (December 15, 2004)
Rey, Mark, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment
USDA Announces Release of $1.5 Billion for
Voluntary Conservation Programs in FY 2004
(February 3, 2004)
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Rey Presents
Conservation Award to Washington Children's Settlement
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(April 28, 2004)
CFC
Recognizes NRCS Staff and Under Secretary Rey
(March 2, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>Riparian
Restoration
Riparian
Restoration in New Mexico (March 16, 2005)
Recapturing the Park River (March 30,
2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Salinity Control< Outreach Community Hmong>
USDA
Provides $19.8 Million to Control
Salinity in the Colorado River Basin
(April 14, 2004)
Salmon Habitat
California
District's "Growth Spurt" Boosts Projects for Fish, Forests
(April 7, 2004)
NRCS,
District Effort Speeds Oregon Salmon Recovery Effort
(May 5, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Alaska
District, Volunteers Build Bridges for Salmon
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 1, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Service Centers
Remarks from Secretary
Veneman at the Opening of the Stockton, California, USDA Service Center
(August 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Small Watersheds Protection Program (PL-566)
Providing Lake Access to People with
Disabilities
(Feb. 3, 2004)
Virginia's First Dam Rehabilitation Project
Begins
(March 3,
2004)
Watershed Dams Save Millions
(Oklahoma, March 24, 2004)
Hackberry
Dam Holds Back Deluge (April 21, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
First
Dam in Georgia to be Rehabilitated with Federal Funds
< Outreach Community Hmong> < Outreach Community Hmong>(May
5, 2004)
First
Dam Rehabilitation Project Begins
(Tennessee, June 2, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
Nebraska
Watershed Dams Did What They’re Supposed to Do
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 9, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Wisconsin Dam Project
to Provide Benefits for Next 100 Years
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
(June 9, 2004)
Major Dam Re-hab Underway
(September 29, 2004)
Wisconsin
PL-566 Project Helps Remove River from Degraded Waters List (November
10, 2004)
Workers Close
the Valve on NRCS Mississippi Dam Project (November 17, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Snow Surveys
`Snowman' Logs New Mexico's Snowpack (Jan. 14, 2004)
Measuring Moisture at NRCS’ Annual Snow Survey
School
(Oregon, Jan. 21, 2004)
Measuring Snow is a Science
(Feb. 10, 2004)
Snow Job: Duo Makes Monthly Outing to Measure the
Snowpack (March 10, 2004)
New
SNOTEL Sites Open in Colorado
(December 22, 2004)
Snowpack
Well Below Normal (Oregon,
February 9, 2005)
Snow
Survey
Story (Colorado, February 16, 2005)
Supply
Forecast Program Monitors Mount Saint Helens Snowpack
(March 16, 2005)
Snowpack Surveyors Find
Levels Higher than Normal (April 6, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Soils and Soil Surveys
New Nebraska Soil Survey Has "Something of Use to Everyone" (Jan. 27,
2004)
Soil Data Mart Now Operational
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Soil Science Institute II Course (Feb. 18, 2004)
Iowa County Welcomes New Soil Survey
(Feb. 25, 2004)
Digging Into New Nebraska Soil Survey
(March 10, 2004)
Urban Soil Quality Pub Now on Web
(March 10, 2004)
Ninth Edition of Keys to Soil Taxonomy
Released
(March 17, 2004)
National
Soil Survey Center Tests XRF Meter
(April 14, 2004)
NRCS Begins Soil Survey Work in San Bernardino National Forest
(California, April 21, 2004)
Soil
Survey of Ohio's Second-largest County Ready
(May 26, 2004)
Idaho District, NRCS
Working to Reduce Nitrates in Soil (June 23, 2004)
USDA Software
Helps Save Soil in California Vineyards< color="#000080">
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong face="Verdana">
(June 23, 2004)
< color="#000080">
NRCS
Soil Scientists Conduct Soils/GIS Workshop in Ghana
<>
(June 23, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
New GIS
Course to Boost Production of SSURGO Products
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(July 21, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Data
Mining the NSSC Soil Survey Laboratory Soil Characterization Data
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(September 1, 2004)
New Digital Soil Survey Mapping Course Announced
(September 8, 2004)
NRCS
Helps Bring National Recognition to Mississippi Slough Project
(October 13, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
New
Soil Survey Data
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(October 13, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< color="#000080">
Soil Information Software Updated
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(November 24, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Soil
Data Mart Sees Increasing Demand
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 1, 2004)
Plan Underway to
Evaluate the National Benchmark Soils List
(December 22, 2004)
Florida
Mobile Irrigation Lab Helps Track Water Use, Offers Solutions (March 30,
2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Streambank Restoration
< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS,
District Help Montana School Shore Up River Bank
< Outreach Community Hmong>(December 1, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong>
Sustainable Agriculture
New
Sustainable Agriculture Website (July
28, 2004)
Three Farmers Win National Sustainability Award
(November 24, 2004)
Goats,
Sheep Help Manage Weeds on Western Rangeland (March 16, 2005)
Sustainable
Agriculture Network Seeks Authors (March 30, 2005)
Professional Development Workshop for USDA Southern Region focuses on Managing
Livestock, Natural Resources (April 27, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080">
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Tech Tips
PLANTS
Usage Increases in FY 2003 (Jan. 6, 2004)
Prairie Pothole Wetland Assessment Guidebook Set for Release (Jan. 14,
2004)
Documenting Permeability of Soils for an Animal Waste Storage Pond
(Jan. 21, 2004)
Soil Data Mart Now Operational
(Jan. 27, 2004)
New Soil Tech Note Available
(Feb. 3, 2004)
New Fish and Wildlife Article Series Soon
Available to Field Offices (Feb.
10, 2004)
NRCS Assists Ghana in Agriculture and
Rural Development
(Feb. 18, 2004)
Web Version of Nutbal PRO Tested (March 3, 2004)
Urban Soil Quality Pub Now on Web
(March 10, 2004)
Ninth Edition of Keys to Soil Taxonomy
Released
(March 17, 2004)
Henry's Fork Case
Study Completed (March 24, 2004)
Pressure
Treated Wood Update
(March
31, 2004)
Highlander
Eastern Gamagrass Released
(April 7, 2004)
National
Soil Survey Center Tests XRF Meter
(April 14, 2004)
NRCS
Assists El Salvador with Horizontal Wells Project
(April 20, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
Symbols
for Unknown Plants Developed
< Outreach Community Hmong Event(April 28, 2004)
Discover
Your Strengths! (May 5, 2004)
Alternative
Enterprises and Agritourism Resources
(May 12, 2004)
NRCS
Soil Geochemistry Program Developed
(May 26, 2004)
Situational
Analysis Fact Sheet Released (June 2, 2004)
Culturally
Significant Plants Presentation (June 9, 2004)
New
Economics On-line Network (June 16, 2004)
NRCS
Soil Scientists Conduct Soils/GIS Workshop in Ghana (June 23, 2004)
High Tech for Texas EQIP
(June 30, 2004)
New
Features in PLANTS Plant Profiles
(July 7, 2004)
EconDoc
Exchange: Ahuachapan Irrigation Case Study
(July 14, 2004)
New GIS
Course to Boost Production of SSURGO Products (July 21, 2004)
New
Soil Geochemistry Program Developed (July 28, 2004)
Social
Sciences Institute Releases Strengthening Public Involvement
(August 4, 2004)
New
NRCS Web Site Answers FAQs on Organics
(August 11, 2004)
Tele
Atlas Geospatial Data Now Available for Authorized Users
(August 19, 2004)
New Grazing Management Book Available (August 24, 2004)
Data
Mining the NSSC Soil Survey Laboratory Soil Characterization Data
(September 1, 2004)
< color="#000080">
New Digital Soil Survey Mapping Course Announced
<> (September
8, 2004)
New Soils Software Common Computing Environment Certified (September
15, 2004)
New
NRCS National Geospatial Development Center Proposed
(October 6, 2004)
New
Soil Survey Data (October 13, 2004)
Plant
Materials Program (October 20, 2004)
Air
Quality (October 27, 2004)
Low-Phytate Soybeans (November
17, 2004)
Soil Information Software Updated (November 24, 2004)
Soil
Data Mart Sees Increasing Demand
(December 1, 2004)
Legal
Status Now Explained on PLANTS Database (December 8, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Global Experience Program Available to NRCS
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 15, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Plan Underway to
Evaluate the National Benchmark Soils List
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(December 22, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
< color="#000080">
NRCS
Kansas' EQIP Self-Assessment Tool Helps Producers, Cuts Costs
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(December 29, 2004)
USDA
Announces New Tool for Estimating Soil Carbon Sequestration (March 30, 2005)
Collecting Ecological Site Information for Forestland (April 27, 2005)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
Technical Service Providers
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>< Outreach Community Hmong>
Wisconsin
TSP Workshop
<>< Outreach Community Hmong>
(March 31, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
TSP Express (March 2004)
TSP Express< Outreach Community Hmong>
(May 2004)
< color="#000080">
TSP Express <>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(August 2004)
Revised
Payment Rates for Technical Service Providers
(October 20, 2004)
< color="#000080">
TSP
Express (November 2004)
< color="#000080">
TSP Express (March 2005)
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TSP Express (July 2005)
USDA
Releases Final Rule For Technical Service Provider Assistance
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Tribes
Closer Ties with New Mexico’s Mescalero Apache
Tribe (Feb. 25, 2004)
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Partnership Saves Historical Idaho Site
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5, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
Historic
Agreement Signed in Michigan for the Protection of Native Cultural Artifacts (May 5, 2004)
NRCS North Carolina Gets Taste of Lumbee Life
(August 4, 2004)
USDA
Offers Tribal and Asian Pacific Islander Scholarships
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Veneman, USDA Secretary Ann M.
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Veneman Announces Availability Of Electronic
"Customer Statement" (March 10,
2004)
Veneman Announces First Air
Quality Awards (March 17, 2004)
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Secretary Veneman Announces Interim Final Rule for Conservation Security
Program -- Sign Up to Begin July 6 < Outreach Community Hmong Event
< Outreach Community Hmong Event<>(June 9, 2004)
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Remarks from Secretary
Veneman at the Opening of the Stockton, California, USDA Service Center
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(August 24, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong color="#000080" Event
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Secretary
Veneman Tours Agriculture Areas Hit By Hurricane Charley; USDA Provides Wide
Ranging Assistance <> (August
25, 2004)
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Secretary Veneman Announces the Release of $1.6 Billion for Voluntary
Conservation Programs on Working Lands
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Secretary
Veneman Speaks at Women in Agriculture Conference (November 3, 2004)
Secretary Veneman Announces $162,500 In Education Grants to FFA
Accepts Distinguished Service Citation for USDA's Contribution to Agricultural
Education (November 3, 2004)
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< Outreach Community Hmong>Water Quality
Texas Lake Removed From Impaired List; NRCS and Partners Reduce Atrazine
(Jan. 14, 2004)
District to Restore Stream Bank, Improve Water Quality in Pennsylvania Scenic
River (March
3, 2004)
Lake
George Shoreland Restoration Project--St. Cloud, Minnesota
(April 7, 2004)
New York Districts
Get Grants for Ag Runoff Control Projects
(April 14, 2004)
NRCS Reaches
Out to Amish Farmers in Pennsylvania (April 21, 2004)
NRCS,
Conservation District and Town Officials Work to Restore Vegetation along
Sawmill River in Western Massachusetts
(April 28, 2004)
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District Grant to
Improve Water Quality Near Pennsylvania Dirt Roads
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Goat
Island Restoration Celebrated in Texas
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(May 26, 2004)
Minnesota
Students Join NRCS, District to Help Landowner Complete Water Quality Project
(May 26, 2004)
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Earth
Team Volunteers Serious about Water Quality
<> (June 16, 2004)
Kentuckian Works to Make His Farm More
Environmentally Friendly (June 23, 2004)
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Idaho District, NRCS
Working to Reduce Nitrates in Soil
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Montana Irrigators and NRCS to Save Water and Save Species
(June 30, 2004)
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District,
NRCS Work on Restoration Plan for Mine Drainage Sites in Pennsylvania Watershed
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(July 14, 2004)
NRCS
Phosphorus Index Helps Iowa Farmers Protect Water Quality (July 21,
2004)
Celebrating
World Water Monitoring Day in Hawaii (October 20, 2004)
Wetlands Mitigation Banks
Chief Knight Tours Nation's First
First Ag Wetland Mitigation Bank
(April 28, 2004)
Wetlands Reserve Program
Tennessee Landowners, Communities Pleased with
New "Golden Age of Conservation"
(Jan. 27, 2004)
Largest Tall Grass Prairie Restoration Project
(Minnesota, Jan. 27, 2004)
Partners in Protecting Minnesota's
Waterfowl (March
3, 2004)
NRCS, Izaak Walton League to Create Wildlife Sanctuary in New York (March 17, 2004)
Wetlands Reserve Program Protects Rare Florida Fern (March 24, 2004)
NRCS,
Audubon Conserve Nearly 1,500 Acres of Wisconsin Habitat
(April 7, 2004)
Wetlands Reserve Program
to Benefit Family Farm in Texas (April
14, 2004)
President Announces Wetlands Initiative on Earth Day
(April 28, 2004)
Chief Knight Celebrates Earth Day at Minnesota Wetlands Project
(April 28, 2004)
And to Hardwood Mississippi Bottomland will Return
(April 28, 2004)
Former
Indiana Farm to be Restored to Wetland (May 19, 2004)
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited to
Convert Arkansas Property to Wetlands (June 9, 2004)
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Invasives Out,
Good Grasses In at Connecticut WHIP Site
<>(June 9, 2004)
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited Break Ground on Illinois Wetland Project
(June 16, 2004)
More Wetland Acres Returning in Southeast Wisconsin
(June 30, 2004)
In Oregon, Raptors and
Birds Now Gather Where Onions Once Grew
(July 21, 2004)
Oklahoma
WRP Project Offers Slew of Sights (July 28, 2004)
WRP Brings Wisconsin Marsh "Back to Nature"
(August 4, 2004)
Spotted Frogs Make a Big Splash at Utah WRP Project
(August 11, 2004)
Illinois WRP
Project to Prevent Floods, Protect Wildlife (August 19, 2004)
WRP
Turns Idaho Pasture into Wetland (September 1, 2004)
WRP
Helps Preserve Major Indiana Waterfowl Area
(October 6, 2004)
NRCS
Provides $2.1 Million to Restore and Protect Wetlands in 12 States (October
13, 2004)
Salt
Marsh Dedicated in Maine's Cascade Brook
(October 20, 2004)
USDA
Provides $7 Million to Restore and Protect Wetlands in Arkansas
(November 3, 2004)
The
Nature Conservancy and WRP Restore Alabama River (November 10, 2004)
Wetlands Reserve Program
Creates "200-acre Bird Feeder" on Iowa Farm
(January 26, 2005)
North Carolina
Wetlands Restoration Project Turns Corner (March 23, 2005)
Partners Break Ground on Project To Save Louisiana Marshes (May 2, 2005)
NRCS Helps Kentucky Farmer Save Wetlands
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(May 2, 2005)
NRCS Illinois Soil Scientist Restores Wetland Habitat
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(May 2, 2005)
Wetlands Reserve
Enhancement Program
USDA Announces First
Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program Partnership
(June 30, 2004)
$24
Million from USDA to Help Restore Nebraska Wetlands (July 7, 2004)
Wildlife Habitat
Kentucky Farmer Growing Grasses for Wildlife
(Feb. 18, 2004)
California District to Keep Habitat "Out of Circulation Forever" (Feb.
25, 2004)
Songs
of the Sky: Partnership Pilot Program, Fire Aim to Restore Grasslands, Migratory
Songbirds (March 17, 2004)
Iowa
Project Could become "a Model for Restoration"
(May 5, 2004)
Goat
Island Restoration Celebrated in Texas
(May 26, 2004)
If
I Were a Pheasant, What Would I Want?: Tree Planting for Wildlife
(June 16, 2004)
Oklahoma
Farm Becomes Tern Nesting Ground (July 14, 2004)
Partnership
Brings Minnesota Wetland Back "Full Circle" (August 4, 2004)
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Lush
Landfill Brings Life to North Carolina Trash Pile
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Illinois WRP
Project to Prevent Floods, Protect Wildlife
< Outreach Community Hmong Event
(August 19, 2004)
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<>
USDA Provides $2 Million for Sage Grouse Conservation and Recovery in Four
Western States
<>
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(August 24, 2004)
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<>
USDA Provides Additional $600,000 to Improve Fish and Wildlife Habitat on
Private Lands in 21 States <>
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(August 24, 2004)
USDA Awards $1.2 Million for Bobwhite Quail Habitat Restoration
(August 24, 2004)
With NRCS' Help, National Wild Turkey Federation's Operation Oak Grows Stronger
(December 8, 2004)
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8, 2004)
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NRCS,
Alabama Partners Protect Wildlife Near Power Lines
<>
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(December 22, 2004)
North Dakota Partners Create New Wildlife Management Area
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(May 2, 2005)
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Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
A Close Call For Bobwhite Quail
(Southeastern
U.S., Jan.
6, 2004)
Town Recognized for River
Restoration Project in Maine
(Jan. 27, 2004)
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited Fund South Carolina Habitat, Farm Income Project
(March 17, 2004)
Henry's Fork Case
Study Completed (March 24, 2004)
WHIP
Projects, Good Planning Help Wildlife Thrive for Alabama Landowner (March
31, 2004)
USDA Announces $3.5 Million for New Salmon
Habitat Restoration Initiative in Five States
(March
31, 2004)
Wisconsin
Wildlife Home Gets a Remodel (April
21, 2004)
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Rey
Presents Conservation Award to Washington Children's Settlement
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NRCS’s
Commitment to Protecting Sage Grouse Habitat
(April 28, 2004)
"WHIPing" Grazingland into Shape
(May 18, 2004)
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<>
A
West Virginia Farm Bill Success Story
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(June 2, 2004)
< Outreach Community Hmong>
<>
Chief
Knight Views Federal Projects at California Cattle Ranch
<>
< Outreach Community Hmong>
(July 14, 2004)
USDA Provides $350,000 for
Sage Grouse Habitat in Utah
(August 4, 2004)
WHIP
Helps Partners Restore Eelgrass in Rhode Island Bay (August 19, 2004)
USDA Provides Additional $600,000 to Improve Fish and Wildlife Habitat on
Private Lands in 21 States (August 24, 2004)
WHIP Helps New Jersey Battle Invasive Shrub
(September 1, 2004)
Reservation Benefits
from Farm Bill Programs
(September 8, 2004)
From Pit to Pool:
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<>(September 8,
2004)
Iowa
Volunteers Clear Honeysuckle, Prepare for Prairie Plants (September
15, 2004)
“Whipping”
Chester Creek into Shape (Alaska,
October 6, 2004)
WHIP Brings New Jersey Kids Close to Natural World
(<>October
6, 2004)
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USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean
Area <>
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(November 3, 2004)
WHIP Helps Restore Massachusetts Natural Habitat for Several Bird Species
(December 1, 2004)< Outreach Community Hmong>
NRCS
South Carolina Showcases Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Practices
(December 29, 2004)
Wood Products
Pressure
Treated Wood Update
(March 31, 2004)
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