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 851 - 860 of 1760 projects
National Audubon Society, Inc.
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CA
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2012
Evaluate and refine hedgerow and farm edge habitat creation practices for ag fields targeting the creation of vital breeding, wintering, and migration habitat for migratory and resident songbirds.
North Dakota State University
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ND
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2012
To increase the biological functions and integrity of wetlands while installing utilizatin of long-term easements.
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
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OR
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2012
The goal of this project is to implement prevention and avoidance methods for management of mummy berry and reduce fungicide treatments for the protection of water quality. Project will achieve the following objectives, decrease the incidence of mummy berry by 10-15%, demonstrate prevention and avoidance techniques, and commitment to try and utilize techniques.
Not Provided
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MT
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2012
The goal of the project is to demonstrate the viability of an appropriately scaled, reliable, cost-effective, and visually acceptable wind turbine, and thus to fill a largely vacant mid-size niche in the turbine market. What is available is either commercial-scale and too large or residential-scale and too small, in either case too expensive to own or operate, and in neither case very well suited to the landscape. This is the barrier to agricultural on-site and distributed wind energy, despite its relative cost-effectiveness and the pressing conservation need for it
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Soil and Water Resources
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OH
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2012
Demonstrate alternative drainage techniques by creating a pilot project to educate farmers about using both two-stage ditch and over-wide ditch floodplain approaches to reduce nutrient and sediment exports.
Ohio Environmental Council (OEC)
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OH
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2012
To review and analysis the finished CIG projects by reviewing and analyzing the final reports, talking to the sponsors to determine the benefit of the projects.
Orangeburg County SWCD
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SC
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2012
This project aims to investigate service to positive soil health, stopping the spread of invasive species, wildlife enhancement for landowners/managers thru custom conservation land treatment.
Oregon Cattleman's Association
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OR
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2012
Project objectives: The goal is to have an inter-agency and multi-stakeholder co-operatively endorsed guide available for rangeland and habitat monitoring that describes functional, time efficient, and credible information that increases cooperative on-the-ground monitoring. There are four objectives for the project:
1. Develop a landowner/operator-based monitoring program with a set of standardized monitoring protocols to provide ways to assess rangeland riparian areas, streams, plant communities, and uplands for use by state, federal, private landowners, and interested professionals without regard to the ownership boundaries for sustainable wildlife habitat.
2. Develop a Monitoring Guide that is time sensitive and pertinent to the livestock grazing activity. In addition to standardized monitoring data collection protocols, the guide will include systematic information such as the benefits of collecting data before and after grazing in a pasture rather than at the end of season or during a one time investigation.
3. Disseminate the monitoring guide and tool kits, promote the benefits of rangeland and habitat monitoring to the 13,000 ranchers across Oregon and hold on-the-ground training. This program will provide vital information to help support sustainable range management while also demonstrating and quantifying the impacts of grazing as a habitat management tool within the time frame of the grazing period.
4. Develop a data management system that is easily accessible for ranchers to record, store and retrieve monitoring data in a standardized format that can be easily integrated at individual, local and state levels. It is important for detailed monitoring reports to be accessible by individual ranchers for their management decisions. Broader trend reports, based on accumulative monitoring data for larger landscape areas, will provide measurable results of grazing on habitat along with evaluation of monitoring objectives on a regional or state level
1. Develop a landowner/operator-based monitoring program with a set of standardized monitoring protocols to provide ways to assess rangeland riparian areas, streams, plant communities, and uplands for use by state, federal, private landowners, and interested professionals without regard to the ownership boundaries for sustainable wildlife habitat.
2. Develop a Monitoring Guide that is time sensitive and pertinent to the livestock grazing activity. In addition to standardized monitoring data collection protocols, the guide will include systematic information such as the benefits of collecting data before and after grazing in a pasture rather than at the end of season or during a one time investigation.
3. Disseminate the monitoring guide and tool kits, promote the benefits of rangeland and habitat monitoring to the 13,000 ranchers across Oregon and hold on-the-ground training. This program will provide vital information to help support sustainable range management while also demonstrating and quantifying the impacts of grazing as a habitat management tool within the time frame of the grazing period.
4. Develop a data management system that is easily accessible for ranchers to record, store and retrieve monitoring data in a standardized format that can be easily integrated at individual, local and state levels. It is important for detailed monitoring reports to be accessible by individual ranchers for their management decisions. Broader trend reports, based on accumulative monitoring data for larger landscape areas, will provide measurable results of grazing on habitat along with evaluation of monitoring objectives on a regional or state level
Oregon State University
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OR
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2012
The objective of the project is to provide Oregon Growers with an online tool for utilizing Agrimet weather data for scientific irrigation scheduling. Produce an open source version of the simplified scheduling application and promote the system to irrigation districts across Oregon.
OSU
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OK
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2012
A series of demonstrations will be developed to show the effects of nitrogen fixing cover crops in no-till rotations of wheat and canola on nitrogen fixing and cash crop performance. The project will also demonstrate management practices that can improve nitrogen utilization by cash crops and the impacts of cover crops on soil moisture availability for cash crops.