Farm bill evolution to increase landowner and ecosystem service benefits
| dc.contributor.author | University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-28T18:09:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-28T18:09:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | 2 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | With approximately 9,400 professionals working in nearly every one of the nation’s 3,071 counties and an emphasis on voluntary, incentives-based approaches to conservation, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has significantly influenced private working lands management. NRCS conservation programs, which typically deliver financial and technical assistance on a landowner-by-landowner basis, have been criticized as “random acts of conservation” that lack strategic vision for delivering landscape-scale outcomes. To address this, the 2008 Farm Bill created new initiatives to allow partner organizations to propose strategic, multi-landowner projects that address priority resource concerns within specific hydrographic or geographic boundaries. The Three Sisters Irrigation District in the Upper Deschutes River Basin of Central Oregon used one of these programs, the Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP), as one source of money to bring pressurized water to irrigators within the district and restore water to a historically dewatered creek. The McKenzie Canyon project reveals some of the relative strengths and weaknesses of one of NRCS’s new approaches. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This fact sheet series is part of a multi-state research collaboration involving Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and Sustainable Northwest, with funding from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture, Grant #2009-85211-06102-C0405A. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19591 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Payments for ecosystem services fact sheet series;fact sheet 9 | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Farm bill evolution to increase landowner and ecosystem service benefits | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |