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Water Quality Initiatives and Agriculture: An Electronic Bibliography

48 selected citations
Web-Available --- February 2002

Joe Makuch
Water Quality Information Center

This electronic bibliography is intended primarily to provide awareness of recent investigations and discussions of a topic and is not intended to be in-depth and exhaustive. The inclusion or omission of a particular publication or citation should not be construed as endorsement or disapproval.

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  1. 1997 Nutrient Reduction Reevaluation Summary Report
    http://www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/97.pdf

  2. Adoption of Agricultural Production Practices: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Area Studies Project
    http://http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer792/AER792.PDF

  3. Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 1994
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/AREI/

  4. Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 1996-97
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/AH712/

  5. Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2003
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/arei/ah722/

  6. Agriculture and the Environment: Information on and Characteristics of Selected Watershed Projects
    http://www.gao.gov/archive/1995/rc95218.pdf

  7. Agriculture and Water Quality
    http://www.aftresearch.org/researchresource/wp/wp00-2.pdf

  8. Allocating Land to New York's Conservation Reserve Program to Maximize Net Environmental Benefits
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=2086

  9. America's Private Land: A Geography of Hope
    http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/pub/GHopeHit.html

  10. Animal Agriculture: Information on Waste Management and Water Quality Issues
    http://www.gao.gov/archive/1995/rc95200b.pdf

  11. Animal Agriculture, Waste Management Practices
    http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/rc99205.pdf

  12. Animal Waste Management and the Environment: Background for Current Issues
    http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-48.cfm

  13. Assessment of U.S. Agricultural Policy and Linkages to Trade and Environmental Issues
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=956

  14. AWRA 1998 Specialty Conference on Rangeland Management and Water Resources: Proceedings
    http://www.awra.org/proceedings/reno98/

  15. Clean Water Initiative: Restoring and Protecting America's Waters
    http://water.usgs.gov/owq/cleanwater/action/toc.html

  16. Conservation Reserve Program: Status and Policy Issues
    http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Natural/nrgen-21.cfm

  17. Conservation Spending in Agriculture: Trends and Implications
    http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-89.cfm

  18. Control of Water Pollution from Agriculture
    ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/aglw/docs/idp55e.pdf

  19. Crops and Drops: Making the Best Use of Water for Agriculture
    ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/aglw/docs/cropsdrops_e.pdf

  20. Data and Information About Natural Resources on Agricultural Land: No Rules, Just Rights
    http://www.arborday.org/programs/papers/PrivacyWpaper.html

  21. Designing Green Support: Incentive Compatibility and the Commodity Programs
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=125

  22. Designing Nonpoint Source Pollution Policies with Limited Information About Both Risk Attitudes and Production Technology
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=2698

  23. Evaluating Extension-Based Water Resource Outreach Programs: Are We Meeting the Challenge?
    http://http://www.joe.org/joe/2002february/a3.html

  24. Evaluation of the Experimental Rural Clean Water Program
    http://www.water.ncsu.edu/watershedss/info/rcwp/

  25. Final Report of the National Watershed Forum, Building Partnerships for Healthy Watersheds
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/forum/finalrpt.pdf

  26. Forest & Riparian Buffer Conservation: Local Case Studies From the Chesapeake Bay Program
    http://www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/158.pdf

  27. Laws Governing Use and Impact of Agricultural Chemicals: Agricultural Chemicals and Water Pollution
    http://agecon.uwyo.edu/RiskMgt/legalrisk/AgChem&H2Opollpdf.pdf

  28. Legal Issues Related to Livestock Watering in Federal Grazing Districts
    http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/water/h2o-14.cfm

  29. Local Economic Impacts of Conservation Reserve Program Enrollments: A Sub-County Analysis
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=1041

  30. Location of Production and Endogenous Water Quality Regulation: A Look at the U.S. Hog Industry
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=1504

  31. Mission Possible II: State Progress Controlling Runoff Under the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program
    http://ca.mycontent.org/Runoff/mpii

  32. National Watershed Water Quality Project Symposium: Proceedings
    http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/pubs/625r97008/625r97008.htm

  33. Nitrogen Sources and Gulf Hypoxia: Potential for Point-Nonpoint Trading
    http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=807

  34. NWQEP Notes
    http://www5.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/issues/Default.htm

  35. Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds: Status, Trends, and Initiatives in Watershed Management
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/protecting/restore725.pdf

  36. Review of Phosphorus Control Measures in the United States and Their Effects on Water Quality
    http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/nutrients/pubs/wri99-4007/wri99-4007.pdf

  37. Section 319 Nonpoint Source National Monitoring Program: Successes and Recommendations
    http://www5.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/section319/NMP%20Lessons%20Learned%2011_00.pdf

  38. Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success Stories
    http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/Success319/

  39. Section 319 Success Stories: Volume II, Highlights of State and Tribal Nonpoint Source Programs
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/Section319II/

  40. Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success Stories: Volume III
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/Section319III/

  41. Unleashing the Clean Water Act: The Promise and Challenge of the TMDL Approach to Water Quality
    http://www.rff.org/rff/Documents/RFF-Resources-139-unleashing.pdf

  42. Voluntary Incentives for Reducing Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib716/AIB716.PDF

  43. Water Quality: A Report of Progress
    http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/wgwq/progress.html

  44. Water Quality and Agriculture: Status, Conditions, and Trends
    http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/pubs/wq.html

  45. Water Quality Initiatives and Agriculture
    http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/water/h2o-38.cfm

  46. Watershed Success Stories: Applying the Principles and Spirit of the Clean Water Action Plan
    http://water.usgs.gov/owq/cleanwater/success/


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