York Soil and Water Conservation District Cooperative Records - Accession 855

This collection consists of the participant files in accordance with the business practices of the York Soil and Water Conservation District. Listed alphabetically by last name, with the years of operation ranging from 1937-1994. Included in each folder are the original signed contracts (to insure completion of irrigation and other improvements of the land), rough sketches and blueprints and plats of acreage, and some aerial photographs of the land.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2202/thumbnail.jp

Riparian Buffer Project : Annual Report for the Period April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002.

This project implements riparian buffer systems in the Mid-Columbia, addressing limiting factors identified in the Fifteen mile Subbasin Summary, June 30, 2000. The project is providing the technical planning support needed to implement at least 36 riparian buffer system contracts on approximately 872 acres covering an estimated 40 miles of anadromous fish streams over a three year period. In the first year of implementation, 26 buffer contracts were established on 25-26 miles of stream. This nearly doubled the annual goal. Buffer widths averaged 83 ft. on each side of the stream. Implementation included prescribed plantings, fencing, and related practices. Actual implementation costs, lease payments, and maintenance costs are borne by existing USDA programs: Conservation Reserve and Conservation Reserve Enhancement Programs. The lease period of each contract may vary between 10 to 15 years. During this year the average was 14.5 years. The total value of contracts established this year is $1,491,235 compared with$64,756 in BPA contract costs to provide the technical support needed to get the contracts implemented. This project provides technical staffing to conduct assessments and develop plans to help keep pace with the growing backlog of potential riparian buffer projects. Word of mouth from satisfied customers has brought in many new sign-ups during the year. More than half of the contracts this year have been done in the Hood and Fifteen mile sub-basins with additional contracts in adjacent sub-basins

2009 Annual Report: Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution in Texas

Annual report of the Nonpoint Source Management Program in Texas describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2009

Fiscal Year 2017

Annual report of the Texas Nonpoint Source Management program describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2017

2020 Annual Report: Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution in Texas

Annual report of the Nonpoint Source Management Program in Texas describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2020

Multiple trait dimensions mediate stress gradient effects on plant biomass allocation, with implications for coastal ecosystem services

The plant economic spectrum (PES) predicts a suite of correlated traits in a continuum from resource conservation to rapid resource acquisition. In addition to competing for resources, plants need to cope with other environmental stresses to persist and reproduce. Yet, it is unclear how multiple strategies (i.e. traits uncorrelated with the PES) affect plant biomass allocation, hindering our ability to connect environmental gradients to ecosystem services.We examined intraspecific dimensionality of leaf and root traits in the salt marsh pioneer species Spartina anglica across salinity, redox and sand content gradients, and related them to above-ground and below-ground plant biomass—properties associated with wave attenuation and sediment stabilization in coastal marshes.Through principal component analysis, we did not find support for a single PES trait dimension (strategy), but instead identified four trait dimensions: (a) leaf economic spectrum (LES, leaf analogue of PES); (b) fine roots-rhizomes; (c) coarse roots; and (d) salt extrusion. Structural equation modelling showed a shift towards the conservative side of the LES under increasing salinity, while redox had a positive influence on the coarse roots dimension. In turn, these trait dimensions were strongly associated with above-ground and below-ground biomass (BLW biomass) allocation.These results indicate that under high salinity, plants will adopt a conservative strategy and will invest more in BLW biomass. Yet, high sediment redox would still allow plants to invest in above-ground biomass. Therefore, plants' trait-mediated biomass allocation depends on the specific combination of abiotic factors experienced at the local scale.Synthesis. Our study highlights the importance of considering multiple ecological strategies for understanding the effect of the environment on plants. Abiotic stresses can influence multiple trait strategy-dimensions, with consequences for ecosystem functioning

Evaluating dairy waste management systems' influence on fecal coliform concentration in runoff

This report examines environmental factors influencing the die-off and transport of fecal coliform bacteria present in wastes applied to the land surface. These factors are examined specifically for dairy waste management systems and the net effect each system has on runoff water quality. A model is developed that considers the effects of precipitation, season, method of wastes storage and application, die-off of the bacteria in storage, die-off of the bacteria on the land surface, infiltration of bacteria into the soil profile, soil characteristics, overland transport of bacteria (runoff), and buffer zones. The model is then applied to the Tillamook Basin in northwestern Oregon to evaluate which waste management procedures significantly decrease bacterial pollution potential in agricultural runoff.Published November 1982. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalo

Rapid soil analytical techniques for international agricultural research and development

Soil analysis is used to assess natural resources and inform management to improve long-term farming profitability. Conventional techniques typically use different methods, equipment, reagents and skills to measure each soil property of interest. The consequence is that a conventional soil laboratory is expensive to set up, maintain and run. These issues result in many countries (and organisations) having to do without a well-functioning conventional soil laboratory. Developments in spectroscopic and potentiometric methods of soil analysis means that these countries need not go without reliable soil analysis