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Riparian Restoration Guide
Released
The U.S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation
Service and New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts have
released "A Guide for Planning Riparian Treatments in New Mexico" for
conservationists who are providing planning and design assistance in
treating riparian areas. The guide is available at your local NRCS and
Soil and Water Conservation District offices and is on the web at
www.nm.nrcs.usda.gov.
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Wetlands ... in New Mexico?
As we go to press, an important Wetland Reserve
Program (WRP) project is being let for construction in the Belen area.
The Whitfield WRP project will be restoring wetland characteristics to
part of the historical Rio Grande floodplain. Future work at the site
will provide local residents an educational facility that showcases the
immense value of this type of environment to our state.
Conservationists
Nearly Double Water Flow
The Claunch-Pinto Soil and Water Conservation District is taking a
stand against salt cedar, and enlisting the help of others in doing so.
Old photographs dating back to 1905 of Abo Arroyo in the Mountainair
area show a landscape with no salt cedar. This is a far cry from
what nine landowners along the stream there were facing in 2005.
But since then the flow in the arroyo has nearly doubled, thanks to
conservation measures.
NRCS has a reputation for bringing "tried and true" technology to New
Mexico's farms and ranches. But, to make that technology "tried
and true" sometimes NRCS is the innovator who is testing new ideas and
options. A case in point is a field trial of a plastic-lined steel
water tank with a false bottom. For
the full story (692 KB)
Yielding
Answers to Water Depletion Problems
The Otero Soil and Water Conservation District is tackling water
depletion problems in 750 square miles of south central New Mexico, and
instituting a scientific approach to watershed management that they and
others can use. Understanding scientifically the movement and
depletion of groundwater can be an enormous leg-up for land managers
when planning conservation measures. It can enable the managers to
identify which hillsides are helping the flow of a particular stream.
It can highlight the consumptive use of forest areas. For
the full story (692 KB)
Tallpots
and Hydrogel Teamed at Santa Fe Site
Sometimes the ventures of the Natural Resources Conservation
Service's Los Lunas Plant Materials Center sound like impossible
missions. Planting shrubs alongside a semi-desert road near Santa
Fe, then only watering them twice and expecting them to thrive sounds
like one of these tall tales. Yet, that is exactly what this group
of innovators is doing. For
the full story (692 KB)
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