But it’s still the early days of soil sound research. And many questions remain before soil acoustics is put to use for conservation efforts or to monitor restoration, Robinson said.

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ...

Lawrence County farmer Eugene “Gene” Poirot developed methods of soil and water resource conservation on his farm beginning in the 1920s.

To better conserve soil ecological values, we must know where their protection is needed most. For plants and animals living above the soil, hotspots of biodiversity were identified decades ago.

Clay said the breakdown of that $4.5 million provides $40,000 to each Soil and Water Conservation district — meaning that every district will have enough funds to pay one full-time employee.

Soil conservation’s roots On April 14, 1935, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl rolled over the landscape. Black Sunday covered an area about 800 miles long and about 300-500 miles wide ...

A need to provide education and awareness to the purpose and role of the Soil & Water Conservation District. As well as a restraint on overreach within our county government.

The effort is led by the state-funded, $12-million California Conservation Genomics Project, and its findings are being incorporated into California’s pledge to conserve 30% of its land and ...

Voluntary, incentive-based conservation programs authorized by the U.S. Farm Bill are popular among American farmers. Unfortunately, applications for these programs still far exceed available funding.

The month of April in Central Illinois was drier and much windier than normal. With normal rain events, this accident might have never occurred, but only masked the underlying cause.