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 251 - 260 of 1760 projects
Koniag, Inc. Regional Native Corporation
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AK
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2018
Forest management strategies can and do affect subsistence wildlife species such as deer and Roosevelt elk in Alaska’s coastal forests. A need for a landscape assessment on what the forest management impacts will be and a strategy for addressing them is imminent. This project takes an integrated landscape approach on how to manage the forest resources over a cutting rotation on a sustainable basis. It evaluates the need for management modifications based on real data. It then initiates innovative practical approaches in the development of management practices that will help achieve the goal of forest and subsistence resource sustainability.
LSU Agricultural Center
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LA
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2018
This project will demonstrate and quantify the relationship of winter and fallow season cover crops have on soil health, yield, and yield variability of a rice-soybean rotation in Louisiana.
LSU Agricultural Center
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LA
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2018
Baccharis control by broadcast application of triclopyr could improve the survival and growth of juvenile bottomland hardwood forests and enhance forb and grass richness for wildlife benefit. The objectives of this project are to:
1. Demonstrate the efficacy of winter broadcast application of triclopyr on baccharis control, hardwood survival and growth promotion, and forb and grass diversity relative to carrying out no baccharis control and carrying out baccharis control with a more conventional method of cutting baccharis and spraying triclopyr on each stump
2. Demonstrate the efficacy of winter broadcast application of triclopyr at 6 qt/acre relative to lower rates with and without surfactants.
3. Determine the financial performance of the baccharis control measures.
4. Integrate information from the project into ongoing LSU AgCenter extension programming of landowner/natural resource professional workshops, extension bulletins, and media releases (newspaper, website, TV, radio) as well as fact sheets and manual updates produced in collaboration with NRCS personnel
5. Host a field tour of the demonstration project for natural resource management professionals and landowners
1. Demonstrate the efficacy of winter broadcast application of triclopyr on baccharis control, hardwood survival and growth promotion, and forb and grass diversity relative to carrying out no baccharis control and carrying out baccharis control with a more conventional method of cutting baccharis and spraying triclopyr on each stump
2. Demonstrate the efficacy of winter broadcast application of triclopyr at 6 qt/acre relative to lower rates with and without surfactants.
3. Determine the financial performance of the baccharis control measures.
4. Integrate information from the project into ongoing LSU AgCenter extension programming of landowner/natural resource professional workshops, extension bulletins, and media releases (newspaper, website, TV, radio) as well as fact sheets and manual updates produced in collaboration with NRCS personnel
5. Host a field tour of the demonstration project for natural resource management professionals and landowners
Matt's Healthy Woods and Wildlife
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MO
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2018
Currently in Missouri, as in many parts of the country, the felling of trees in a Forest Stand Improvement (FSI) thinning is restricted to certain portions of the year, depending on presence and proximity to known colonies of endangered bats. By using the Hack &, Squirt method, FSI can still be conducted during the no-cut period, providing bats with necessary forest openings and forest managers with an additional 7 months to conduct non-commercial thinning, because it does not involve the felling of trees. The Hack &, Squirt method is already in use in Missouri, however, specific information regarding application methods, dose, and herbicide are unknown for individual tree species.By minimizing non-target effects, the amount of living roots in the soil and the remaining above-ground biomass will be maximized, leading to improved soil health versus a treatment in which non-target effects are not minimized
New Mexico State University
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NM
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2018
Demonstrate and quantify the benefits of improved soil health with planting grass buffer strips in cropped center pivots, including cover crops and diversifying crop rotations.
North Jersey RC&D
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NJ
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2018
Much of the intense experimentation of cover crops has been carried out in the Mid-West. It is important for New Jersey to have a baseline developed so the NJ NRCS Soil Health Initiative continues to positively impact the landscape. This project will evaluate different methods of cover crop establishment. Many of the proposed practices are applicable for farmers to adopt, but more experimentation and analysis is needed to identify the least cost, yet most effective way to seed cover crops. Through this project we will communicate the data obtained to the agricultural community for their acceptance and implementation on their own farms.
Northeast Iowa RC&D
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IA
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2018
This project will introduce multi-cropping management systems as an option to help achieve the goals of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2018
This project will 1) demonstrate feasibility of contract grazing cover crops, 2) show economics pertaining to both row crop and livestock farmer profitability, 3) conduct soil health analysis in control and treatment plots on each demonstration farm with the goal of documenting soil health differences correlated to the integration of cattle.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2018
This project will generate relevant, credible, third-party information on strategies that reduce cereal rye cover crop seed costs with on-farm conservation research trials using farm scale equipment. Inform potential changes to NRCS, IDALS, and others’ recommended cover crop practices as a result of knowledge generated by the on-farm conservation research trials.
PRAES- Dr. Aponte Zayas
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PR
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2018
The purpose of this project is Crotalaria juncea L. for conserved forages: Improving resilience of farmers to withstand natural disasters. To validate the adaptability of Crotalaria juncea planted as a sole crop or in association with Panicum maximun cv. Mombaza to generate an innovative cropping system to promote the use of crotalaria juncea L. as a forage crop able to produce high quality hay that can be stored and use later in the season to feed livestock during periods of shortage cause by natural disasters or severer weather events. OBJECTIVES – Identify key strategies and project design, alignment of resources and activities, strategic partners and their roles, objectives and goals clearly identified
Conserving forages of grasses and legumes is an alternative to storage high quality feed that can be used latter in the season to feed livestock and withstand periods of drought, floods and other natural disasters. The validation and educational activities is proposed to stimulate the use of sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) to produce conserved forages that can be used after natural disaster such as drought, floods or hurricanes to provide a high-quality forage to feed livestock.
Conserving forages of grasses and legumes is an alternative to storage high quality feed that can be used latter in the season to feed livestock and withstand periods of drought, floods and other natural disasters. The validation and educational activities is proposed to stimulate the use of sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) to produce conserved forages that can be used after natural disaster such as drought, floods or hurricanes to provide a high-quality forage to feed livestock.