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 561 - 570 of 1760 projects
University of Wyoming
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WY
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2014
This two-year cooperative effort seeks to demonstrate how both agriculture producers and small acreage owners can effectively recover and repair impacted landscapes using tools and resources which they already have on hand. By demonstrating the use of notill planting, herd effect planting and planting with common rancher and homeowner equipment on a number of sites through central Wyoming the project hopes to reach 150-300 landowners with techniques and methods that recover impacted landscapes in a sustainable practice. Due to the growth of small acreages and web-based education, this project has the potential to reach over 10,000 landowners in the next three years. All sites will be established where tours can be led to the site without additional impacts.
University of Wyoming
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WY
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2014
The purpose of this project is to implement a conservation exchange to facilitate provision of multiple ecosystem service across Wyoming. The more immediate goal to implement the Exchange in the Upper Green River Basin.
Virginia Tech
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VA
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2014
This award is for Virginia Tech to document, demonstrate and educate dairy farmers and conservation professionals about the benefits of utilizing cover crops in their farming systems. Despite the well-established benefits of cover crops, dairy farmers can be reluctant to adopt the use of cover crops in their rotations. One reason for this lack of adoption is related to the limited existing information on yield and quality of the resulting forages. The overall objective of this project is to obtain local information related to productivity and nutritional quality of different cover crops. The specific objectives of this project are to determine: dry matter yield and nutritional quality of 15 diverse cover crops destined for silage or grazing and the residual effect of cover crops on dry matter yield and nutritional quality of forage sorghum and corn destined for silage.
Virginia Tech
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VA
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2014
This award is for Virginia Tech to document, demonstrate and educate producers and conservation professionals about the benefits of transitioning land from traditional high intensity and low biomass production to systems utilizing high-residue, diverse cover crop species or alternative summer cover crops. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) to demonstrate various species of cover crops for different purposes, (2) document improvements and concerns with disease and nematode management based upon the chosen cover crop species, and (3) conduct outreach and education by establishing a suite of fact sheets, workshops, videos, webinars and refereed journal articles.
Willamette Partnership
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OR
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2014
The project will demonstrate how project investments in riparian restoration, in stream flow augmentation, and other practices can improve water quality. Through the Klamath Tracking and Accountability Program (KTAP).
Yankee Farmers Market
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NH
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2014
Install an enclosed Heavy Use Area for buffalo (bison) utilizing concrete, hard pack, woodchips, and pipe/drain.
Tehama County Resource Conservation District
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CA
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2014
This project seeks to remove the barriers to adoption of NRCS irrigation efficiency practices. Project goals include (1) formation of a network of ICAN members who will become leaders and whose ideas will begin to spread and become common practices, (2) introduction of new technologies to simplify the scheduling of irrigation run times, (3) increased awareness of growers of their own individual irrigation systems, and (4) greater understanding of how to achieve efficient irrigation practices.
Alabama Mountains, Rivers and Valleys RC&D Council
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AL
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2014
Providing adequate water for livestock and vegetable crops on an appropriate scale is a problem for many small farmers. Most do not have irrigation systems, cannot leverage economies of scale to obtain them and have not historically participated in USDA programs to address these challenges. In addition, rainwater runoff can move sediment and nutrients into area streams, impacting water quality. This project will assist historically underserved producers with implementing practices to capture and store rainwater runoff from farm buildings thus reducing soil erosion and nutrient and sediment runoff to streams, and increasing the sustainability of small farms by improving access to affordable irrigation systems based on appropriate technology.
Wetland Dynamics, LLC
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CO
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2014
Traditional bird or amphibian surveys typically require one or more observers in the field to document birds by sight or vocalization. A number of factors associated with different methods can result in negative impact to a species and poor monitoring results. With acoustic monitoring a species can be monitored for days or weeks with disturbance limited to brief visits to the site to set up and retrieve the recordings. The data are collected at all sites in the same way removing all observer bias or influences of inclement weather. The potential bias associated with data analysis is eliminated because recordings are scanned on a computer with the same recognizer. This technology has proven to be extremely effective for determination of presence or absence of specific wildlife species (bats and marine mammals) without the intrusion or influence of humans in the area. This project will utilize the technology of acoustic monitoring by developing, testing and refining recognizers to improve monitoring of threatened and endangered species in the San Luis Valley. Acoustic monitors will be deployed to detect breeding populations, focus Habitat improvement measures and measure success of treatments by the presence or absence of these species in locations that have baseline conditions documented through matching funds.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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VA
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2014
Modern agricultural practices, such as monoculture cropping systems and mechanized tillage, have resulted in widespread soil degradation, erosion and biodiversity loss. The resultant degraded, "unhealthy" soils require increased inputs such as fertilizers and irrigation in order to maintain productivity. In recent years, however, proactive agricultural producers, extension agents and agencies have worked together to develop management methods such as cover cropping and conservation tillage that restore, maintain or improve the health of agricultural soils, thus reducing production inputs and improving soil properties. The overall objective is to increase the acreage of land that is being managed with conservation tillage including no-till and multi-species high-residue Cover Crops, by demonstrating and quantifying the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils managed under conventional tillage, conservation tillage and conservation tillage with high-residue multispecies Cover Crops. This project will incorporate several innovative strategies to increase the awareness and practice of soil health management tactics, building on a legacy of interrelated investigation, outreach and extension.