Project Search
Since its inception in 2004, CIG has funded hundreds of projects, boosting natural resource conservation while helping producers improve the health of their operations for the future. Use this tool to search for CIG projects based on any of the criteria listed below.
CIG projects from 2004-2009 may be missing information in the following categories: Resource Concern (specific), Conservation Practice, Production/Use.
Showing 931 - 940 of 1802 projects
Northwest Natural Resource Group
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WA
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2011
The primary beneficiaries of this project will be small tree farmers across the nation. This project will also assist other small landowner groups looking to measure and value their environmental services contributions in a more cost effective, accurate, and efficient manner. While carbon markets have had significant attention in recent year and much work has been done to measure and monetize the sequestration on forestlands, smaller growers (less than 1,000 acres) still have no real way to participate in these emerging markets and few incentives for adapting their management to sequester more carbon (existing aggregation protocols and current carbon prices represent too much risk for little return for smaller projects). This project is designed to address that need by developing scientifically rigorous protocols for the monitoring of a variety of environmental services specifically for small and aggregated landowners. This will lead to increased access to carbon markets and other environmental services market and incentives programs and provide new decision making tools for both foresters and landowners to determine which variables to measure and at what scale and if measurement will be cost effective.
The Texas High Plains Initiative for Strategic and Innovative Irrigation Management and Conservation
North Plains Groundwater Conservation District
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TX
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2011
The purpose of this initiative is to demonstrate strategic irrigation and crop system management technologies and practices which will result not only in water savings across the region but also best practices that are applicable nationwide to regions facing similar resource concerns. The primary objective is to quantify water savings that can be realized from strategic irrigation management.
Ecosystem Management Research Institute
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MT
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2011
This project aims to produce a web-accessible planning tool that will complement on-going sagegrouse and sagebrush conservation efforts by providing descriptions of site specific plant communities adjusted for predicted climate change, as reference conditions for restoration or Habitat improvement objectives. First, development of the planning tool will provide new information in a readily available format. It will build from existing information contained in ecological site descriptions, but will provide a consistent description of optimal potential plant communities as reference information for each site and further make recommendations for adjusting native plant communities so that they will be resilient and sustainable under future predicted climate conditions. Each ecological site will be evaluated for its potential to provide sage-grouse Habitat. The web-based accessibility of this information in a format readily usable by technical service providers, wildlife biologists, and interested producers will also be new. The project will provide demonstrations of the use of the planning tool to provide benefits to sage-grouse and sagebrush ecosystems.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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DC
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2011
The project will result in a number of benefits that will substantially increase the achievement of longleaf pine ecosystem restoration goals and objectives. Namely, this program will leverage private financing to increase the number of technical assistance providers on the ground and to establish a sustainable network of assistance providers that will advance private landowner stewardship initiatives that greatly benefit the Longleaf ecosystem. The network will provide a continuous loop of information from the field to policy makers and funders and back to the field at lessons, policies and investment strategies evolve based on progress on the ground.
Furthermore, the protocol for monitoring and evaluation will serve as a key foundational element to the long-term restoration and protection of the longleaf ecosystem. The protocol will serve as the long-term means by which progress of the restoration effort, at the parcel, landscape and regional scale, will be measured. A tool of this kind, and the knowledge developed to build it, has tremendous transferability to other large-scale restoration and protection initiatives that require significant involvement of private landowners. As such, it can be adapted to meet the needs of other ecosystems of similar scale.
Furthermore, the protocol for monitoring and evaluation will serve as a key foundational element to the long-term restoration and protection of the longleaf ecosystem. The protocol will serve as the long-term means by which progress of the restoration effort, at the parcel, landscape and regional scale, will be measured. A tool of this kind, and the knowledge developed to build it, has tremendous transferability to other large-scale restoration and protection initiatives that require significant involvement of private landowners. As such, it can be adapted to meet the needs of other ecosystems of similar scale.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
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WI
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2011
This proposed three-state project will test, demonstrate, and promote a promising new system to obtain low-cost, good-quality edge-of-field monitoring data in production agricultural settings within a three-state region that can be used in tiered efforts to develop local knowledge and expertise in water quality management. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneer Farm, in collaboration with UW-Platteville Engineering, has developed an innovative, low-cost monitoring system that will meet the criteria of interim Code 799 and enable widely-deployed, coordinated edge-of-field monitoring. By eliminating unnecessary features and assembling components in-house, the prototype monitoring system derives the majority of cost savings with minimal sacrifice in accuracy. Despite costing less than one third of conventional systems, features are included to reduce failure rate and maintenance costs, which include a tail-water sensor, backup stage sensors datalogger, power supply, and passive sampler, a flume heater (for accurate snowmelt monitoring), and a larger enclosure for ease of access and use.
University of Idaho
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ID
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2011
This project will demonstrate, evaluate, and encourage the widespread adoption of the vacuum/scraper dairy manure collection, proper composting, and land application via injection in Southern Idaho for mitigating odors and managing nutrients. Cost associated with these demonstrated manure management techniques and currently used methods will be analyzed to provide economic information.
University of Idaho
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ID
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2011
This project will demonstrate, evaluate and encourage the widespread adoption of biofiltration systems to document benefits and increase awareness among producers.
Iowa Soybean Association
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IA
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2011
The Iowa Soybean Association’s Environmental Programs and Services (ISA EPS) group proposes to partner with conservation drainage experts in the Upper Midwest to accelerate farmer awareness and implementation of denitrifying bioreactors and other conservation drainage systems. Drawing from the experiences of researchers who have developed the bioreactor programs in Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; this work will focus on refining operational recommendations for bioreactors to maximize their life expectancy and nitrate removal and to minimize the generation of possible environmentally undesirable byproducts during the denitrification process. Lessons learned about management of bioreactors from this CIG proposal will then be transferred to producers, watershed coordinators, NRCS personnel, and drainage contractors in the form of i) new interim EQIP standards in Illinois and Minnesota, ii) refinements to the current interim standard in Iowa, iii) a bioreactor management guide, iv) a conservation drainage tool, and v) informational meetings.
University of Georgia
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GA
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2011
This project aims at taking the use of solar a little further. This project will expand on the use of solar power to demonstrate a few systems in these cases as well as find answers to the feasibility of using these types of solar systems. The project will use solar systems in the following ways: cooling and water heating, pond aeration, water pumping in high head situations, livestock watering and drip irrigation.
Fiscalini Farms, LP
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CA
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2011
This project will develop information for a detailed technical, environmental and economic evaluation on the performance of an enclosed aerobic manure drying (EAMD) system as a new and innovative way of managing dairy manure year round. The project will demonstrate EAMD can improve air quality: decreasing the emissions of ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and particulate matter from current traditional manure drying process; decease nitrous oxides, reactive organic gases, and particulate matter of 10 microns in diameter emissions from the equipment necessary for moving and processing manure.