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Landowners may seek additional funding in wake of wildfires
Landowners affected by wildfires in the West Texas region may apply for financial assistance through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program for range deferment of all livestock grazing throughout the growing season, plant health concerns and cross-fencing assistance.
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USDA EQIP assistance available for landowners hit by recent wildfires
Landowners affected by wildfires can apply for financial assistance through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program for range deferment of all livestock grazing throughout the growing season, plant health concerns and cross fencing assistance.
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Study tracks effects of declining predator numbers
The shift in the food chain carries steep consequences for many ecosystems, including humans
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Time is right to address food security
LANDSCAPE regeneration and food security issues need to be addressed now for the world to be able to meet demand for food production in the future, according to General Michael Jeffery.
The former Governor-General was speaking about regenerative culture at a Designing Resilient Farming Systems conference last Friday.
General Jeffery said without action now the world would not be able to feed a projected increase in population from six billion to 10b by 2050.
There would be less available agricultural land, an aridifying landscape and increasingly degraded soils along with all its associated problems like salinity and erosion.
Longer droughts also increased the risk of wildfires and severe flooding.
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Global climate change: Permaculture works with, not against, ecosystems
The climate is trying to tell us something. From one of the worst droughts in Texas history, stoking unprecedented wildfires, to record precipitation in the Midwest, fueling historic flooding along the Mississippi River, to Portland's second wettest and third coldest spring on record that's delayed the growing season, extreme weather events have gotten our attention in the past year.
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Judge blocks Rock Creek Mine construction
HELENA — A decision by a Montana judge on Thursday has provoked hand-wringing from Rock Creek Mine advocates and celebration from opponents.
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New ditch design
Iberia Parish Public Works last week began implementing another new, cutting edge technology called Deltalok technique to combat erosion along roadside ditches, officials said.
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Fingerprinting fugitive dust
Each community of soil microbes has a unique fingerprint that can potentially be used to track soil back to its source, right down to whether it came from dust from a rural road or from a farm field, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture soil scientist.
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Discussion with Nepal to Reduce Flood in Bihar
The schemes for flood and erosion control are planned, funded and executed by the State Governments, as per their own priorities, out of their State plan funds which are made available to them through Planning Commission. In order to provide financial support to the State Governments, the Government of India also assisted the flood prone States in flood Management and anti-erosion works for critical reaches.
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USDA adds 2500 products to BioPreferred program
In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the designation of 14 additional biobased product categories which are eligible for federal procurement preference, adding 2,500 biobased products. The new categories include animal repellent, bath products, bioremediation materials, compost activators and accelerators, concrete and asphalt cleaners, cuts, burns and abrasions ointments, dishwashing products, erosion control materials,
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EPA finds deficiencies in Wisconsin's oversight of water pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pinpointed numerous deficiencies in Wisconsin's management of water pollution and has directed the state Department of Natural Resources to fix the problems in the next two years.
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Killer shrimp 'worst alien invader'
According to the Environment Agency, invasive species cost the UK economy around £1.7 billion a year, causing damage to riverbanks and buildings, increasing flood risk and hitting native wildlife. They can even become so prolific that anglers, fishermen and boaters cannot use the waterways.
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