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 231 - 240 of 1760 projects
California Rice Commission
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CA
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2019
The primary goal of this project is to develop a model economic framework designed to provide long-term, sustained, private sector funding to increase the quality and quantity of waterbird Habitat in California’s ricelands. Each year at least a billion birds migrate along the Pacific Flyway, but these birds are only a fraction of those that used the flyway a century ago. Habitat loss and other factors threaten the birds of the Pacific Flyway. California, which is key to the Flyway, has lost 95% of its natural wetlands. Due to these extensive losses, creating and enhancing Habitat for wetland-dependant species is vital to the continued functioning of the Flyway.
University of Minnesota
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MN
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2019
This project aims to employ cover crop legumes to reduce N pollution in vegetable rotations by taking up excess soil N and providing fixed nitrogen, while also providing flowering Habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects. While farmer interest is high, actual adoption of Cover Crops remains low due to lack of knowledge about optimal management, potential for nitrogen delivery, soil health improvement, and beneficial insect and pollinator services within vegetable rotations. This project takes the innovative approach of introducing flowering summer Cover Crops into vegetable systems, advancing the NRCS National Priority of integration of Pollinator Habitat into agricultural systems.
MAD Agriculture
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MT, NE
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2019
This project is designed to accelerate the adoption of regenerative and organic agriculture using an innovative financing vehicle, the Perennial Fund, to found Carbon Farm Plans that empower producers to access organic crops and carbon markets. Carbon Farm Planning, which builds on NRCS Conservation Planning, is a new and powerful framework for designing agricultural systems that recognize soil health as the foundation on which all agriculture depends. This project uses Carbon Farm Planning to activate financing and markets toward long-term investments in soil health and resource conservation. There are four primary activities: Carbon Farm Planning and agronomy; Carbon Farm Curriculum and Training; Perennial Fund Creation; and Crop and Carbon Market Development.
East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc.
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AR
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2019
This project will use several conservation practices: Cover Crop (340) applied with practices such as Conservation Crop Rotation (328), Residue and tillage management, No Till (329), Residue and Tillage Management, Reduced Till (345), Nutrient Management (590),
and Pest Management Conservation System (595) as conservation approaches that have been used separately as a cover crop system to enable producers to be increasingly flexible and adaptable when top and sub-soil conditions are not suitable to the cover crop production and termination guidelines. East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc. will provide technical assistance and outreach to enable 30 producers in the project will use a combination of the conservation practices in that best suit their farm conditions based on their conservation plans. They will collect, analyze, record and compile data to evaluate the process and outcome of the practices, incorporate the evaluation data into a written report with recommendations about the effectiveness and impact of the various practices in the system, and make recommendations about the transferability of the system of practices for use in alternative crop production. The group will conduct regularly scheduled meeting among the project partners to update them and to confer regarding any changes or modifications that need to be made in the project protocol in order to meet the objectives.
and Pest Management Conservation System (595) as conservation approaches that have been used separately as a cover crop system to enable producers to be increasingly flexible and adaptable when top and sub-soil conditions are not suitable to the cover crop production and termination guidelines. East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc. will provide technical assistance and outreach to enable 30 producers in the project will use a combination of the conservation practices in that best suit their farm conditions based on their conservation plans. They will collect, analyze, record and compile data to evaluate the process and outcome of the practices, incorporate the evaluation data into a written report with recommendations about the effectiveness and impact of the various practices in the system, and make recommendations about the transferability of the system of practices for use in alternative crop production. The group will conduct regularly scheduled meeting among the project partners to update them and to confer regarding any changes or modifications that need to be made in the project protocol in order to meet the objectives.
Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts
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AR
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2019
The overall goal of this project is to expand a farmer-led ASHA that would increase the outreach for an effective educational program among Arkansas farmers. The network would form a governing Board with additional officers and members, and develop a strategic plan. The AACD would work with the ASHA and University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (UA CES) to develop a strategic plan with ASHA, build membership drive and provide leadership training for ASHA conducted by UA CES (Julianne Dunn)
Beaver Watershed Alliance
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AR
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2019
This project will develop and document a scenario for the use of Seasonal High Tunnels (Practice 325) for propagation of local genotype native plant material (NPM). The Beaver Watershed Alliance will Identify and establish local genotype for NPM production with twenty producers in the Beaver Lake Watershed using plant-related NRCS practices. There will be benefits such as establishing and support development of environmental restoration and retail markets as an economically viable model for routine use of local genotype NPM to improve soils, protect water quality, improve air quality, improve energy conservation and related resources both on agricultural and non-industrial private forested lands as well as in developing urban and suburban areas throughout Northwest Arkansas.
Burns Paiute Tribe
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OR
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2019
This project will test the applicability of the combination of prescribed fire, pre-emergent herbicide application, and seeding at controlling medusahead and rvegetation with more desirable vegetation at a management scale and to compare the efficienty of indaziflam and imazapic within these treatment combinations.
Texas Tech University
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TX
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2019
This project aims to demonstrate an innovative brush control method that will inform adaptive grazing management decisions and improve soil health. After treating pastures with this method, the teamwill evaluate forage production increases, soil health effects, grazing management decisions during the entire duration of the project. These directly and easily quantifiable measures will be reported on a per-pasture basis.
The Nature Conservancy
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MO
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2019
This project will develop, implement and aim to quantify the optimal combinations of grass species and grazing intensity necessary to maximize profitability for a rancher's bottom line. They will establish native plant diversity in a cool season grass dominated grazing system. Project seeks to prove that sustainable grazing is a product of a good year long available forage structure for the cattle, while ensuring productive daily gains that ultimately impacts the farmers bottom line. Implement stream side buffers and fencing out cattle from the creek, to reduce any overland flow of water, hold the soil in place and allow water to better penetrate down through the soil profile. The stream is the headwater habitat for the endangered Topeka Shiner.Additionally, promote soil health and specifically Soil Health Management Systems (SHMS) focused on maintaining or enhancing soil health by addressing all four soil health planning principles: minimize disturbance, maximize soil cover, maximize biodiversity and maximize presence of living roots.
University of Connecticut
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CT
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2019
The purpose of this project is to highlight the influence that forest management practices can have on forest soil conditions and raise awareness of soil health as a long-term forest management goal. This project will investigate ways that soil conditions can be altered by silvicultural activity and identify ways that soil conditions and soil health can be enhanced through the implementation of forest management practices. Through the lens of environmental influences specific to Connecticut that are associated with climate change, intense weather events, insect infestations and invasive plants, how forest management practices might address these and associated soil health concerns will be examined. This project will produce a literature review of current science on forest management and soil health, make specific recommendations as to how this information can be interpreted and applied in Connecticut. The project will suggest revisions to state recognized Best Management Practices (BMPs) for forest management activities for soil and water quality protection and will create educational opportunities and materials for woodland owners and forest practitioners to learn management techniques associated with promoting soil health.