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EQIP Ranking Completed January 12
NRCS New Mexico staff will complete ranking
FY2007 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) applications
on January 12, 2007. This will give producers and the agency an
indication of the applications that potentially may be funded for
this fiscal year.
Podoll Named Northwest Area
Conservationist
Mary Podoll is
joining NRCS New Mexico as the new Area Conservationist for the
Northwest Area. A native of Nebraska, she is a graduate of Okalahoma
State University. She has worked extensively for NRCS in western
Okalahoma, as a Resource Conservationist in South Dakota, and most
recently served as an Assistant Director in the Pacific Basin.
Bunchgrass Demo Launched
The Los Lunas Plant Materials Center has
been evaluating giant sacaton since 1999 for its ability to
protect areas from wind erosion by installing windstrip
plantings. When Felix Nez, from the NRCS Dilkon, Arizona Field
Office, came across articles about their work when researching
ideas to address wind erosion problems his cooperators had, he
thought that maybe he had found an answer. This fall a
demonstration in Nez’s area was launched.
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Flipping the Power Switch
With this cold weather everyone is conscious of energy … and
saving it. But how do you do that on the farm? And, who has time
to research technology that we all know is out there? Eric Biderman
of Ribera is exploring those energy saving technologies and
demonstrating his success to small farmers in New Mexico and
Colorado. He has long been a conservation innovator on his organic
farm where he grows beans, flowers, and lettuce. He is a member of
the Quivira Coalition and Santa Fe Farmers Market, and constantly
exploring technologies suitable for implementation on small farms
and in rural areas.
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Restoring Grasslands
Dusty Hunt, the Grant Soil & Water
Conservation District and others have been teaming up, or in
today’s jargon practicing collaborative conservation, to change
a pinon-juniper infested part of the Gila to an open woodland
that benefits ranchers, wildlife, and recreationalist alike.
“The one person who desperately needs to
see my watershed improve, is me,” said Hunt. “This is my
livelihood.”
Hunt is active in the New Mexico
Association of Conservation Districts, and a proud member of the
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association.
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