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In 2001 John Johnston of Lambertville, New Jersey, attended a Pasture Walk sponsored by the Grazing Land Conservation Initiative in New Jersey. After the pasture walk, he contacted NRCS to request assistance for his beef operation.
NRCS and the Musconetcong Watershed Association (MWA) reached a major milestone in the effort to restore the Musconetcong River on Thursday November 10, 2011, with the removal of the Finesville Dam.
Mary Stanek owns a 240‐acre farm just upstream from the confluence of the Blue River and Sixmile Branch in the northeast corner of Grant County, Wisconsin. These two river systems represent 15 years of partnership with NRCS, the Harry and Laura Nohr Chapter of Trout Unlimited and numerous local landowners.
With alfalfa in the crop rotation and pastureland in the mix, Stacy Miller’s 350-acre dairy farm near Plainview, Minnesota already played a role in filtering runoff flowing toward the Mississippi River.
Like many of the bridges you will find crossing small rivers and streams across America, the old bridge across Jellison Meadow Brook was built with only the movement of people in mind.
Yellowstone's Cody elk herd makes one of "the longest migrations of elk we know about in the lower 48 states," according to Arthur Middleton, an assistant professor of wildlife management and policy at UC Berkeley and trustee at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, who has studied them extensively for nearly two decades.
Longleaf pine ecosystems are critical habitat for threatened and endangered species such as gopher tortoises and red-cockaded woodpeckers.
Horses are problem grazers. They eat what they like, until it’s gone. Horses can leave pastures with bare spots, root damage, weed growth and soil erosion.
Dodge County, Minnesota brothers Ben and Jay Currier improved their dairy farm’s efficiency, optimized the fertilizer it produces and played a role in protecting the Mississippi River when they installed a new manure pit last fall.
