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Bee It Known: Biodiversity Is Critical to Ecosystems

Bee It Known: Biodiversity Is Critical to Ecosystems

Rutgers has conducted the first study showing how many more species of bees are needed to maintain crop yields when a longer-term time frame is considered. In the paper, which...

Purdue to boost climate-smart forestry practices among private landowners

Purdue to boost climate-smart forestry practices among private landowners

Purdue University has received $12 million of a $35 million project led by the American Forest Foundation and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnership for...

Report: USDA conservation programs need to focus more on climate change mitigation

Report: USDA conservation programs need to focus more on climate change mitigation

Farmers received billions of dollars from two of the largest federal agricultural conservation programs between 2017 and 2020, but only a small proportion of the money funded...

$8 million USDA investment to expand soil carbon monitoring

$8 million USDA investment to expand soil carbon monitoring

The USDA plans to invest $8 million to support and expand monitoring of carbon in soil on working agricultural lands as well as assess how climate-smart practices are affecting...

New Federal Guidance Aims to Strengthen Indigenous Land Management

New Federal Guidance Aims to Strengthen Indigenous Land Management

New Federal Guidance Aims to Strengthen Indigenous Land Management Tribal governments will now have a say in how 620 million acres of federal lands are managed. Brett Marsh...

This Land is Your Land

This Land is Your Land

Public lands made me a duck hunter, there’s no question about that. Over the years, I’ve hunted ducks on public lands in my native North Carolina, and on public lands in...

The Value of Urban Waterways

The Value of Urban Waterways

The Value of Urban Waterways Posted Wed, 07/28/2021 - 13:27 By Megan Ewald, Office of Response and Restoration This week, we’re taking a look at the different types of urban...

"That's a lot of water..."

American Rivers recently had the pleasure of co-hosting a whitewater rafting trip with a local nonprofit organization called the Vamos Outdoors Project — a group, based in...

10 Facts about U.S. Sustainable Agriculture - The U.S. Sustainability Alliance

10 Facts about U.S. Sustainable Agriculture - The U.S. Sustainability Alliance

10 Facts about U.S. Sustainable Agriculture The United States has been practicing conservation and sustainability long before they became the issues they are today. Here are 10...

Aquaculture Project To Restore Oyster Beds

Aquaculture Project To Restore Oyster Beds

  OCEAN COUNTY – Members of the Ocean County Soil Conservation District (OCSCD) and their partners were recently awarded $961,227 for a New Jersey Coastal Aquaculture...

New player shifts dynamic in slaughterhouse debate in Sioux Falls

New player shifts dynamic in slaughterhouse debate in Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A new group joined the debate over animal processing plants in Sioux Falls this week, potentially changing the financial dynamics of the citywide election in...

What Is a Carbon Tax?

What Is a Carbon Tax?

Simply put, a carbon tax is a fee levied by a government on the production, distribution, or use of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and methane (natural gas). Typically, the...