Articles Index

Earth Team Volunteer Program
2003 Earth Team Award Winners Announced  (January 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)
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”  (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)

Emergency Watershed Protection Program
NRCS Arizona All-Star Volunteer Effort  (February 3, 2004)
USDA Provides $150 Million for Wildfire Recovery Efforts in California  (February 18, 2004)
EWP Projects Save Homes in Utah  (April 28, 2004)
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)
Minnesota Flood Control Project Offers Lessons to Future Engineers (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)
Florida Hurricane Victims Cheer NRCS-funded Debris Removal Project (April 27, 2005)


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)
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)

Endangered Species
Montana Ranchers Recruited to Aid Arctic Grayling (March 30, 2005)

Energy Production
Farm Bill-funded Wind Turbine Cranks Out Voltage for Idaho Farm  (June 16, 2004)

Environmental Quality Incentives Program
EQIP Calms Wind Erosion in North Central Montana  (January 6, 2004)
A Close Call For Bobwhite Quail  (Southeastern U.S., January 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)
USDA Provided $32 Million For Limited Resource Producers Through The Environmental Quality Incentives Program  (April 28, 2004)
Partnership Saves Historical Idaho Site  (May 5, 2004)
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   (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)
Montana Irrigators and NRCS to Save Water and Save Species  (June 30, 2004)
High Tech for Texas EQIP  (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)
Reservation Benefits from Farm Bill Programs  (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)

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)
Stewardship Week 2005: Celebrate Conservation (April 27, 2005)
 

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  (September 15, 2004)
Keeping the Green Mountain State Green  (September 29, 2004)
Massachusetts Dairy Producer Relieved to See Farm Protected (October 6, 2004)
USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean Area  (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)
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)

Grassland Reserve Program
Grasslands Bill Appeals to Montana Rancher  (January 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)
USDA Expands Conservation Opportunities for 13 States and the Caribbean Area  (November 3, 2004)

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
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)

International
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)
NRCS Soil Scientists Conduct Soils/GIS Workshop in Ghana  (June 23, 2004)
USDA and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences to Release Bilingual Conservation Publication  (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)

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)
District to Remove Invasives, Restore New Mexico Creek  (June 2, 2004)
Invasives Out, Good Grasses In at Connecticut WHIP Site  (June 9, 2004)
California District Helps Watershed Look Like Its Old Self Again  (November 24, 2004)
Wyoming District's Beetles Battle Invasive Weed  (December 29, 2004)
Invasive Species Control Highlighted in PMC Document (April 13, 2005)

Klamath Basin
USDA Releases Additional $7.3 Million for the Klamath Basin and a Report on Partnership Conservation Accomplishments  (April 28, 2004)

Knight, Bruce I. Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Winter is a Busy Season for NRCS  (January 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)
Chief Knight Celebrates Earth Day at Minnesota Wetlands Project  (April 28, 2004)
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)
Chief Knight Views Federal Projects at California Cattle Ranch  (July 14, 2004)
Chief Knight Discusses Climate Change in South America  (December 15, 2004)

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)

my.NRCS
Have You Seen the my.NRCS Lately?  (March 31, 2004)
Another Good Reason to Check my.NRCS  (August 4, 2004)

No-till
NRCS Makes Nebraska Kids "Coo-Coo" for No-till  (March 24, 2004)
National Survey Shows More Farmers Choose Conservation  (December 1, 2004)

Nutrient Management
USDA to Provide $8.5 Million to 13 States for Nutrient Management Practices  (August 4, 2004)

Organic Agriculture
Going Organic?  Go Here First!  (Jan. 21, 2004)

Outreach
New Old Computers or Old New Computers?  (May 12, 2004)
Lights! Cameras! Conservation!  (May 12, 2004)
Laotian Farmers Learn about EQIP  (May 19, 2004)
Virginia RC&D Opens 300-Mile Historic Civil Rights Trail  (May 19, 2004)
Thriving Navajo Rug Business “Looms” on the Horizon  (June 16, 2004)
NRCS North Carolina Gets Taste of Lumbee Life  (August 4, 2004)
NRCS Creates Asian Pacific Islander Pilot Scholarship Program  (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)

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)
Partnership Saves Historical Idaho Site  (May 5, 2004)
Environmentalism that Works  (May 5, 2004)
Goat Island Restoration Celebrated in Texas  (May 26, 2004)
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited to Convert Arkansas Property to Wetlands  (June 9, 2004)
NRCS, Ducks Unlimited Break Ground on Illinois Wetland Project  (June 16, 2004)
New Ohio Wetland Preserves Plants and Wildlife, Site for Education and Recreation  (June 16, 2004)
USDA Signs Agreement with Ducks Unlimited  (July 28, 2004)
Partnership Brings Minnesota Wetland Back "Full Circle"  (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)
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)
Culturally Significant Plants Presentation  (June 9, 2004)
New Features in PLANTS Plant Profiles  (July 7, 2004)
Hawaiian Island Restoration  (September 8, 2004)
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)
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)