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 1731 - 1740 of 1760 projects
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
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Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) is an approach to invasive species management that focuses on surveying and monitoring at-risk areas to find infestations at their earliest stages of invasion. Along with prevention, this method is the most successful, cost effective, and least environmentally damaging means of control. This cooperative project utilizes EDRR in identified areas of southern Idaho to address management of squarrose knapweed.
Idaho Fish and Game
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Use of thermal imaging technology from a fixed wing airplane to count sharp-tailed grouse leks in Idaho in spring 2013.
Idaho State University
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The project utilizes invasive species inventory maps developed using multispectral (Landsat, Quickbird) and hyperspectral (HyMap, CASI, AISA) remotely sensed imagery, in conjunction with field-based (GPS) data. The mapping tools will be used to help Cooperative Weed Management Areas (CWMAs) and participating producers locate and manage invasive species.
Latah Soil and Water Conservation District
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To help productivity of croplands by demonstrating how precision application of lime can be used to reverse soil acidification.
Latah Soil and Water Conservation District
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This demonstration project will address issues surrounding soil health management by working with a diverse set of land management systems to integrate the USDA-NRCS Soil Health Nutrient Tool (SHNT) into traditional soil nutrient testing.
Lewis Soil and Water Conservation District
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The project will be used to demonstrate the benefits of keeping nutrients in the soil by using cover crops. Five producers will develop & implement cover crop seeding plans using eight different species of seed on approximately 150 acres. At least one tour will be conducted & soil tests will be run before planting & after the cover crops have been in to demonstrate microbial activity.
Minidoka Soil and Water Conservation District
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The purpose of this project is to educate our landowners to the use of direct seed farming, to the use of cover crops and provide access to equipment and seed to implement these practices. This will allow producers to grow crops without disturbing the soil, increase the amount of water and organic matter in the soil, decrease erosion, control weeds and increase nutrients in the soil by using legumes or by using plants with long roots to pull mobile nutrients back up to the surface from lower layers of the soil. This project will help to educate landowners on the benefits that direct seed practices and cover crops have on soil health.
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
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Project will assist producers in assessing, designing & implementing habitat on their farms to enhance pollinators & beneficial insects. The project will also include conducting educational outreach to producers across southern Idaho & on-farm demonstrations will be conducted in the Treasure and Magic Valley areas.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
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The project will conduct field demonstrations of a biological control for Potato Virus Y in seed potato production in eastern Idaho. Use of biological controls will help reduce the use of insecticides for aphid vector control and negative impact on pollinators and other beneficial insects. BmJ (Bacillus mycoides isolate J) is a microbial disease control agent that has proven effective in early blight control, and research shows the product is also effective for control of PVY in organic potato production. Field days will be conducted each year and a technical bulletin will be developed.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
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NCAP has partnered with Montana Microbial Products to conduct commercial scale demonstrations with growers of the biopesticide BmJ, in control of early blight. Microbial control of early blight is a key element in a strategy to develop a complete system of biological and cultural Pest Management Conservation System (IPM) in potatoes. Early blight of potato (caused by Alternaria solani) is a chronic problem in most potato producing regions in North America. Crop yield can be reduced by as much as 15% with early blight. Early blight is currently managed by foliar applications of multiple fungicides including the strobilurin class of fungicides in rotation with older chemistries. The strobilurin fungicides are very effective in managing early blight, but are at high risk for resistance development. Early blight is also a significant problem in the small but growing organic potato production. Organic growers have few alternatives, using primarily copper with limited success. The project will demonstrate early blight control using BmJ as a stand alone product and in combination programs with strobilurin fungicides. The program will include cooperators who now use green manure programs, selected organic growers and key conventional growers. Field demonstrations and outreach will help potato producers become familiar with BmJ as part of an IPM program. The environmental benefit will be determined by recording the reduction in fungicide use.