The New Mexico USDA-Natural Resources
Conservation Service is sponsoring a series of sustainable agriculture
workshops that point the way to less energy use, less pumping of water,
lower labor requirements, and less need for fertilizers and pesticides
on the farm. The workshops are timely in this bad economy, for we are
all worried about costs. The workshops will be hosted in Albuquerque,
Santa Fe, Shiprock, Clovis, and Tierra Amarilla over the summer. For
more information
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Conservation Concepts Fit Like Hand in
Glove
Watershed conservation, forest management, cooperative conservation,
and inclusion of the historically underserved are all concepts that fit
like a hand in a glove in the Tierra y Montes Soil & Water Conservation
District in northern New Mexico. Adoption of numerous conservation
practices by the Alexander Milliken Ranch is a case in point For the
full story
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Prescribed
Burn Planning Now Available
Mother Nature cooperated at the end of March 2009, enabling 28 NRCS
New Mexico employees to become certified as prescribed burn planners.
This important service helps ranchers and other land managers to reap
the benefits of improved rangeland throughout New Mexico. For the full
story
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Three
Generation Farm Showcases Efficiency
While new and innovative
ideas may catch our imagination, we cannot overlook the tried and true
conservation practices that are keeping our farmers on the land and
aiding in the “greening” of America. The concrete irrigation ditches of
Socorro County, New Mexico and on the Dennis Harris are prime examples.
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Breaking
Through a "Forest" of Cholla
An unnaturally large amount of
prickly cholla cactus on the Acoma Reservation has been cleared,
allowing the land to begin restoring a natural plant community rich in
native grasses. With continued efforts to keep the cactus under
control, the land can once again be utilized by cattle and wildlife for
grazing. For the full story
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Far
From the Thin Walls of Gray Cubicles
The work of NRCS takes
us far from the thin walls of gray cubicles into the mountains and
prairies and by-ways of New Mexico. We share a love for its people as
well as the land – and sometimes one of us takes pen in hand and shares
that love with the rest of us. That is the case of a tribute written by
Randy Donges, range management specialist, in the Clayton field office
as he talks about Union County’s Billie Mock. It is a lesson in
fellowship, stewardship, and range management. For the full story
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