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 Conserving Natural Resources in the Chesapeake Bay
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2008 — U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Natural Resources Conservation Service recently released a
report highlighting its activities in the Chesapeake Bay
watershed for fiscal year 2007.
For example, NRCS
provided more than $76 million in financial and technical
assistance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to help farmers
protect water quality, recycle nutrients, preserve open spaces
and improve wildlife habitat. The agency used existing Farm Bill
programs such as Environmental Quality Incentives Program,
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, Farm and Ranch Lands
Protection Program and Wetlands Reserve Program to help farmers
carry out conservation practices such as riparian buffers,
prescribed grazing systems, irrigation water management,
nutrient management systems, waste storage and manure composting
facilities and wetland creation, restoration
and enhancement.
These documents require
Adobe
Acrobat.
Conserving Natural Resources in the Chesapeake Bay: NRCS 2007
Conservation Activities (PDF; 535 KB)
New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest
Stewardship Information Sheet (PDF; 256 KB)
Learn about financial and technical assistance available through
the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to enhance
conservation practices on wooded land in the Chesapeake Bay
watershed.
Technical
Service Providers (TSP brochure) (PDF; 7.6 MB)
Contact Information
If you encounter any problems with files provided on this page, have questions, suggestions, or find a broken link, please contact Gary Vandawalker
at 315-477-6546.
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