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 1071 - 1080 of 1760 projects
Montana State University
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MT
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to foster the adoption of innovative conservation approaches to invasive riparian plant management by monitoring herbicide treatment and control sites for short and long-term ecological changes, riparian system health and function, environmental protection, and natural resource enhancement; demonstrate the use of innovative biofuel technologies that promote the utilization of invasive plant biomass as a fuel source; and utilize the MRWC’s management and communications infrastructure and network to coordinate all components of the project, and transfer project findings, products and technologies to a broad range of regional stakeholders, including the private sector and NRCS.
National Center for Appropriate Technology
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MT
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to work with eleven leading sustainable and organic agriculture organizations, six consulting experts, EQIP eligible producers to integrate sustainable —including organic— production systems into NRCS programs and procedures, and to make NRCS programs more accessible to sustainable and organic farmers.
Wild Farm Alliance
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CA
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to strengthen the capacity of NRCS to assist specialty crop growers in the integration of new food safety requirements with resource conservation efforts.
Meridian Institute
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CO
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to develop a comprehensive standard and national certification program for sustainable production of cellulosic biomass to address the full complement of natural resource and sustainability concerns.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
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CA
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to: Provide outreach activities and new educational materials and technology, demonstrating innovative conservation practices that can be easily adopted by beginning, limited resource and small-farmers in California’s Central Coast region.
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals dba The Wilds
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OH
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to demonstrate three replicable options, based on life cycle analysis of carbon balance, of growing high diversity prairie in reclaimed coal mined land in order to initiate the process of improving soil, sequestration carbon and generating feedstock for Energy production of high quality food, thus transitioning from carbon-extracting past to a CO2 sequestering economy of the future.
Washington State University
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WA
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to demonstrate a novel, integrated nutrient recovery, Class-A biosolids and H2S scrubbing technology that works in concert with dairy anaerobic digesters.
Agrinetix LLC
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NY
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2010
This project aims to demonstrate the benefits of using variable rate and recording technologies to apply manure such that they help reduce environmental risks caused by leaching and runoff of improperly field applied manure.
Farmland Environmental
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NY
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2010
Demonstrating the benefits of of using Real Time Kinematics guidance systems in conjunction with Continuously Operating reference Station Network to precisely place seed in the planting zone so as to increase the adoption of zone tillage.
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center
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HI
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2010
This project will focus on Dsease Resistant Koa Plantings on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii Islands.