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 261 - 270 of 1760 projects
Protectores de Cuencas
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PR
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2018
Protectores de Cuencas, Inc. (PDC) is a science and community based nonprofit organization helping to restore and protect watersheds across Puerto Rico. Managing wildfires is an important global and national issue to tackle, particularly in the southern region of Puerto Rico. The invasive grass species colonizing disturbed areas, serve as fuel to forest fires during the dry season, creating a fire cycle as the same areas easily ignite year after year. It is the project team's intention to permanently restore the impacted areas to break the fire cycle. This project aims to control and minimize invasive grasses such as, buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) and guinea grass (Megathyrsus maximusthat) in affected susceptible fire areas of the Guánica Dry Forest (GDF), a United Nations World Biosphere Reserve. These invasive species have a wide range of spreading capacity and this interferes with the regeneration of native species. Control of invasive grass species will be followed by a reforestation project of 4 acres of the 25 affected acres on target forest patches across the southern-most GDF boundary along Road 333 with mature native tree and shrub species that are proven to be more tolerant to fires. This project aims to tackle the ecological need of reducing the threats of forest fires, but also intends to have a social impact on the local communities.
Red Coast USA, LLC
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NJ
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2018
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and evaluate the feasibility of floating cage oyster aquaculture in Delaware Bay New Jersey. While such methods have been developed elsewhere, the unique characteristics of Delaware Bay (open water, strong currents, large ice flows) have precluded investment into infrastructure necessary to demonstrate the feasibility of floating cage oyster aquaculture in terms of both technical capability and economic viability. This work is targeted towards expanding the fledgling Delaware Bay centered oyster aquaculture industry away from the intertidal into deeper waters to facilitate growth that responds to an urgent need to avoid interactions with horseshoe crabs and threatened and endangered shore birds like the recently listed red knot and secure a viable and sustainable future for the industry.
The Land Institute
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KS
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2018
Thie project will determine the potential of multipurpose perennial crops as habitat for native pollinators and natural enemies.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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HI
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2018
Dr. Leah Bremer at the University of Hawaii will lead a project to establish demonstration plots of mixed agroforestry systems and will create training and outreach materials and a curriculum to facilitate broad adoption of mixed agroforestry throughout Hawaii and PIA.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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HI
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2018
Dr. Koon-Hui Wang, University of Hawaii, will address a soil health PIA Priority for FY18. Many conventional farmers in Hawaii are having frequent outbreaks of soil-borne fungal diseases that are no longer responding to conventional soil fumigation. This project proposes to use a Soil Health Friendly Biofumigation approach that can help PIA farmers reduce epidemic disease problems in agroecosystems while maintaining soil health. In particular, this project will practice biofumigation by growing a brown mustard (Brassica juncea) and oil radish (Raphanus sativus) cover crop mix for 4-5 weeks, terminating the cover crop by tissue maceration (M) using flail mower, shallowly tilling (T) (< 10 cm deep) the macerated tissues into the soil, then covering the soil with black plastic (BP) for 1 week. This innovative technique will be referred to as the MTBP method.
University of Iowa
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IA
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2018
Demonstrate the effectiveness of ATIs in different regions of Iowa, both as a standalone practice and in conjunction with Water-Sediment Control Basins and Terraces, and simulate ATI implementation in conjunction with other BMPs over a range of field conditions and management scenarios at the HUC-12 scale.
University of Rhode Island-Plant Science
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RI
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2018
This purpose of the project is to address both the soil health category and the organic operation technologies category. This proposal will evaluate the effects of innovative cover cropping strategies on crop yield, inputs of organic carbon and nitrogen, soil nitrate levels in late fall, and weed suppression. All of the strategies could be used by organic producers, and some would be of even greater value in organic production than in conventional production.
University of Rhode Island-Plant Scinece
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RI
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2018
This collaboration between the University of Rhode Island and the state’s largest urban agriculture service provider and producer, the Southside Community Land Trust in Providence, RI, will develop an affordable, urban-adapted protected production system consisting of a scale-appropriate high tunnel that can be farmer-constructed, a cap-and-fill system for mitigating soil contamination, and multifunctional habitat strips/swales for infiltrating stormwater runoff from the tunnel.
UPRM-AES: Dr. Dumas
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PR
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2018
To goal of this project was to protect he soil from erosion caused by weather conditions, taking into consideration the soil class, geographical area and, specifically, a proper land engineering design, especially on steeplands. This project provided data to enable the promotion of sound strategies to reduce soil erosion, improve soil quality through enhancing the soil physical, biological and chemical conditions on steepland. The project also aimed to make an essential contribution to food security and protection of agroecosystems to demonstrate soil erosion control, soil quality conservation practices and crop yield improvements on steepland.
Virginia Dare SWCD
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VA
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2018
The purpose of this award is for Virginia Dare SWCD to assist growers working in the unique soil environment of far southeast Virginia in improving their crop production methods, yields, and ultimately their soil management, husbandry, and conservation. Through the course of the project, individual participating growers will be brought together to form the Southeast Virginia Grain Farmers 20/20 Club for sharing information and inspiration about both production and conservation. Growers in Southeast Virginia will be able to see multiple soil health building strategies on relevant soils. Increased yield, increased diversity in either the farms' cash crops or cover crops, reduction in compaction, and increase in organic matter are predicted project benefits. With an "unspoken goal" of finding a champion to be the model for soil health in SE VA grain farming. Virginia Dare SWCD hopes to replicate what the Virginia No-Till Alliance has established in the Shenandoah Valley.