Articles – Land Use
New Video from the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Collaborative partnership leads to shared successes for Platte River water users and species alike
Historical accounts often cite that the Platte River flowed a mile wide and a foot deep across the central plains of Nebraska. The channel was braided, shallow, wide, and mostly unvegetated. Spring runoff brought large flushes of sediment, forming sandbars in the...
Upper Culebra Watershed Assessment
The Upper Culebra Watershed Assessment is being completed to evaluate watershed conditions within the Culebra River basin and develop projects and strategies to address watershed health concerns. The assessment approach is based on community-identified areas of...
Why Do Soils Matter?
By Francine Lheritier, Soil Scientist, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service “Most people don’t realize that just beneath our feet lies a diverse, complex, life-giving ecosystem that sustains our entire existence,” said Jason Weller, Chief of USDA’s Natural...
The Power of Pollinators
By Susan Welch Susan Welch is a small acreage beekeeper in northern Colorado Research over the last few decades has helped farmers/ranchers make great strides when it comes to the quantity and quality of food and fiber that is produced in the United States. The amount...
Conserving Land and Water: A Long-Term Tool
By Rio de la Vista With Colorado’s growing population and the severe drought which began in 2002, there continues to be intense pressure for land development and with that, pressure to convert more and more water from agriculture to other uses. In response to this,...
The Science of Conservation
The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s covered 300,000 square miles of territory located in Kansas, Texas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and New Mexico. With successive storms, the wind and the flying dust cut off wheat stalks at ground level and tore out the roots....