2004 News Releases

October 13, 2004
USDA Releases Revised Payment Rates for Technical Service Providers

October 5, 2004
USDA Releases $2.1 Million to Restore and Protect Wetlands in 12 States

October 1, 2004
USDA Announces Conservation Effects Assessment Project Grant Recipients; Benefits of Environmental Programs Being Studied Through Federal Partnership

September 30, 2004
USDA Provides More Than $1.9 Million Additional Funding for Grasslands’ Conservation

September 30, 2004
USDA Signs Technical Service Provider Agreement with the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists

September 21, 2004
Private Working Lands Enhanced Through Funding; Additional $1 Million to Ohio for Environmental Quality Incentives Program

September 20, 2004
USDA Creates New Technology Centers and Laboratories to Strengthen Science-based Conservation

September 15, 2004
USDA Helps Fund Conservation Technologies and Approaches

September 10, 2004
USDA Provides Additional $1 Million for Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Florida

September 1, 2004
USDA Provides $500,000 for Wildfire Recovery Efforts for Alaska Native and Rural Communities

August 26, 2004
USDA Announces First Conservation Security Program Contract Signings

USDA Provides $2 Million for Sage Grouse Conservation and Recovery in Four Western States

USDA Provides Additional $600,000 to Improve Fish and Wildlife Habitat on Private Lands in 21 States

August 24, 2004
USDA Awards $1.2 Million for Bobwhite Quail Habitat Restoration

August 13, 2004
USDA Names New NRCS Officials

August 4, 2004
USDA Provides $350,000 for Sage Grouse Habitat in Utah

August 4, 2004
NRCS Notes 50 Years of Watershed Protection

July 30, 2004
USDA and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences Release Bilingual Conservation Publication

July 30, 2004
NRCS Provides Nearly $6 Million of Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Funds

July 30, 2004
USDA Provides $8.5 Million to 13 States for Animal Agriculture Conservation

July 27, 2004
USDA Signs Agreement with Ducks Unlimited

July 27, 2004
USDA Provides up to $1 Million in New Conservation Partnership Initiative Grants

July 22, 2004
USDA to Assess Environmental Benefits of Conservation Programs

July 16, 2004
DOE and USDA Award $25 Million in Joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative

July 16, 2004
USDA Awards $12 Million of Environmental Quality Incentives Program Funds to 14 States

June 29, 2004
USDA Announces First Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program Partnership

June 25, 2004
California Rancher Receives Excellence in Conservation Award

June 15, 2004
USDA Releases Self-Assessment Workbook for New Conservation Security Program

May 19, 2004
USDA Announces Watersheds for 2004 Sign-Up in the Conservation Security Program

May 4, 2004
USDA Establishes Watershed Approach for Conservation Security Program

April 29, 2004
USDA Provided $32 Million for Limited Resource Producers Through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program

April 29, 2004
USDA Seeks Nominations for Agricultural Air Quality Task Force

April 22, 2004
Veneman Releases Report Showing Net Gains in Wetlands on Agricultural Land

April 5, 2004
USDA Provides $19.8 Million to Control Salinity in the Colorado River Basin

April 2, 2004
USDA Signs Agreement with the American Seed Trade Association

March 22, 2004
USDA Releases $15 Million and the Interim Final Rule for Conservation Innovation Grants

March 17, 2004
Delmarva Peninsula to Receive $5 Million for Natural Resources Improvements

March 16, 2004
USDA to Provide $84 Million to Protect Farm and Ranch Land

March 3, 2004
USDA Supports New Conservation Planning Software

February 23, 2004
USDA Announces Funding for Agricultural Management Assistance

February 18, 2004
USDA Provides $150 Million for Wildfire Recovery Efforts in California

February 3, 2004
USDA Provides $3 Million for Conservation Projects that Benefit Coral Reefs

February 3, 2004
USDA Announces New Minority Scholarship Programs

January 28, 2004
USDA Announces Release of $1.5 Billion for Voluntary Conservation Programs in FY 2004

January 9, 2004
USDA to Hold 10 National Public Listening Sessions on the Conservation Security Program