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Oystershell scale is a widespread problem, an emerging invasive insect posing a serious threat to conservation of quaking aspen in northern Arizona and beyond. A serious priority for researchers, oystershell scale monitoring and research is occurring on the Flagstaff and Mogollon Rim Ranger Districts with collaborators from NAU School of Forestry.
Photos are from a collaborative field trip with NAU School of Forestry and the USFS. We shadowed researchers and graduate students, visiting two test plots where possible mitigations for oystershell spread are being reviewed.
Photos and videos taken December 7, 2021 by Danika Thiele. Credit U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest.
A mixture of small and larger baby salmon were found and documented on May 12, 2021 at the SR 529 Steamboat Slough mitigation site near Marysville, WA.
Counting hundreds of small and wiggly juvenile fish is a group effort. WSDOT biologists and Tulalip Tribes researchers take a look and measure the salmon and shrimp caught during high tide at the Steamboat Slough mitigation site on May 12, 2021.
Briefly trapping and counting these fish helps give us a good idea of how successful we've been to restore a salmon nursery area that had been blocked off from the slough near Marysville decades ago.
The dike that blocked water from reaching this area was breached in 2019. Improvements to the nearby I-5/SR 529 interchange will result in the loss of some habitat and this restored estuary will offset that loss.
The early counts show our mitigation effort has been a great success. Fish returned almost immediately and began making it a home again where juvenile fish can rest and gain strength before journeying to the ocean.
Until the late 1800s, the shores along Steamboat Slough had an estuarine habitat where the fresh water mixed with the saltwater of Puget Sound and provided excellent habitat for salmon and other marine life. In the 1950s and ’60s fill was put on this site to build the northbound lanes of SR 529, then I-5. This buried the original habitat. Now WSDOT is restoring the land to its natural state, providing an additional 12 acres of habitat for salmon and other wildlife. This restoration project will mitigate another WSDOT project that requires about 2.5 acres of marshland to build a new off-ramp from northbound I-5 to northbound SR 529, and from southbound SR 529 to southbound I-5.
Mountain West Helicopter pilot Thierry Richards, releases one ton of straw from his Bell UH-1H helicopter on to a burned out area of the Poudre Canyon mountainside near Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, July 20, 2012. This is an aerial application of straw will mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Mountain West Helicopter pilot Thierry Richards, releases one ton of straw from his Bell UH-1H helicopter on to a burned out area of the Poudre Canyon mountainside near Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, July 20, 2012. This is an aerial application of straw will mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Load crews attach 100-150 foot ropes of a cargo net to a release mechanism hanging under a helicopter during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft were launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. Pilots Randy Mason and Terry Richards in the Bell 204 and Tim Booth in the A-Star use their keen depth perception and piloting skills to keep their straw loads at the end of 100-150-foot cable above the trees and hilltops as they transport and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators with hydraulic hay fork grapple attachments make easy work of unloading 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, open then loosen and adjust the load weight on the cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Contractor crews work through a variety of conditions in mid-September to continue progress on the Four Mile Creek mitigation project. This project proactively mitigates the potential environmental impacts expected to result from upcoming nearby construction. That includes the I-5/Northbound on-ramp at Bakerview Road and the future I-5/Slater Road improvements.
Hazmat Mitigation Vehicle 231's new rig.
One of only 2 HMVs in service with SCDF. This truck features seating for a full Hazmat crew of 14 and includes a moveable High Performance Suit (HPS) storage cabinet inside the main crew compartment. This allows fire fighters to suit-up onboard before emerging from the vehicle.
A woman holds a sapling that will be planted in a reforestation area in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
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Tunnel expert Chris Bambridge talks to visitors at the December 2011 opening of Milepost 31, the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program information center in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Milepost 31 was developed in partnership with neighborhood advocates and historic preservation officials as part of a federal requirement to mitigate the effects of the State Route 99 tunnel on historic properties.
Visit www.alaskanwayviaduct.org for more information.
Helicopters come and go in the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. A Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) take turns picking up loads of straw from the landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150- cables hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A hydraulic hay fork grapple attachment makes easy work of loosening and adjusting straw bale density and weight for the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150-food sling lines hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators unloaded 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, open then loosen and adjust the load on cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The aerial application of yellow straw continues to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colo. Red areas are burnt trees with pine needles that will fall to the ground and form mulch. Green areas are the remaining healthy trees that provide shade and protection to ground cover plants and shrub growth. Because of steep terrain, helicopters must be used to quickly deliver 1,800 tons of straw to Forest Service lands, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak, more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Helicopters come and go in the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. A Bell 204 (a.k.a UH-1H, 2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) take turns picking up loads of straw from the landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150- cables hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Press conference to present the Summary for Policymakers of the report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. 4 April 2022. Surrey, UK. Copyright IPCC | Photo by Mark Speight
IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
In August 2020, contractor crews graded down (evened out) the Four Mile Creek mitigation site in Whatcom County. This project, southeast of State Route 539 where it intersects with Ten Mile Road, mitigates possible environmental changes presented by the upcoming construction of the I-5/Northbound on-ramp at Bakerview Road and the future I-5/Slater Road improvement project.
1,400 pounds of straw is lifed into the Colorado sky during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Ft. Collins, Colorado. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150-foot sling lines hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators unloaded 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, open then loosen and adjust the load on cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Mountain Air Chief Pilot Tim Booth, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, prepares to take off after refueling his aircraft on Friday, July 20, 2012, at Seaman Reservoir, near Fort Collins, Colo., during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. The A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150-foot cable hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators unloaded 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, open then loosen and adjust the load on cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
A frontloader with a hydraulic fork grapple attachment, center, makes easy work positioning straw bales on cargo nets, right, loosening the straw for greater aerial dispersment, above right, and removing straw, behind loader on left, to adjusting the weight of the load for the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators unloaded 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150-foot lines holds and releases loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Helicopters come and go in the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. A Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) take turns picking up loads of straw from the landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150- cables hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
Large and small woody debris has been incorporated into the Evans Creek mitigation site as habitat enhancing features. The site is designed to support a variety of wetland plants and wildlife. Photo taken Oct. 9, 2013.
WSDOT will build a new dike near Dugualla Bay on Whidbey Island in summer 2015 where the current southern part of Dike Road, at the right, is located. The work is mitigation for the SR 532 Davis Slough bridge project. When the dike is built, the road will be rebuilt atop it, then the existing southern dike will be breached to allow saltwater from Dugualla Bay into this area. The restored saltwater wetland will serve as a habitat for young salmon. The original dike was built in 1918 so the area could be farmed.
The fire mitigation project returns to Hutchinson, Kansas this spring. Pictured is the activity at Sand Hills State Park in 2015.
Hazmat Mitigation Vehicle 231's new rig.
One of only 2 HMVs in service with SCDF. This truck features seating for a full Hazmat crew of 14 and includes a moveable High Performance Suit (HPS) storage cabinet inside the main crew compartment. This allows fire fighters to suit-up onboard before emerging from the vehicle.
Mountain Air Chief Pilot Tim Booth takes off after refueling on Friday, July 20, 2012, at Seaman Reservoir, near Fort Collins, Colo., during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. The A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft will dangle a 100-foot cable over a load crew at the reservoir spillway. He will then lift an approximately 1,400 pound load of certified straw for aerial dispersal onto barren, burned out tributary lands surrounding the reservoir. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Soybeans grown by Norwood Farms owners and producers Don and son Grant Norwood who have been helped by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist Ron Harrison to implement their crop rotation and residue management practices to reduce erosion leading to improved land use and crop production; they also practice no-till farming on nearly every acre in the operation, in Henry County, TN, on Sept 19, 2019.
The stover of remaining corn stalk stubs, leaves, and cobs that are expelled and and left behind the corn harvester becomes a cover crop. The stover can be seen between soybean crop.
Crop dusters adapted with a seed spreader can seed directly into standing corn and standing soybeans. This gives the seeds a chance to get established before it freezes. In the spring, the cover crop will grow up through the corn stover.
Norwood Farms have successfully established the building blocks of conservation with conservation crop rotation on the entire Norwood operation. The crops are rotated between corn, wheat, soybeans and in some cases, corn cover crops and soybeans cover crops. The practices are implemented to reduced erosion sediment in surface water and are leading to improved land use and crop production.
Conservation Crop Rotation (Practice Code 328) is a management practices where growing a planned sequence of various crops takes place on the same piece of land for a variety of conservation purposes. Crops included in conservation crop rotation include high-residue producing crops such as corn or wheat in rotation with low-residue- producing crops such as soybeans. Crop rotations vary with soil type, crops produced, farming operations, and how the crop residue is managed. The most effective crops for soil improvement is fibrous-rooted high-residue producing crops such as grass and small grain.
Residue and Tillage Management (Practice Code 329) is managing the amount, orientation and distribution of crop and other plant residue on the soil surface throughout the year. For our area, we are utilizing reduced tillage and no-till. Residue and Tillage Management should be used on all cropland fields, especially where excess sheet and rill erosion are a problem. Residue and tillage management is most effective when used with other conservation practices like grassed waterways, contouring, field borders, etc.
NRCS has a proud history of supporting America's farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat. As the USDA's primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science. And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department's focal point for the nationâs farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and services supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), NRCS, and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
For more information please see www.usda.gov
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Helicopters come and go in the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. A Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) take turns picking up loads of straw from the landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150- cables hold and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Press conference to present the Summary for Policymakers of the report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. 4 April 2022. Surrey, UK. Copyright IPCC | Photo by Mark Speight
IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
A ton of straw slowly falls during an aerial disbursement over a burned out area of the Poudre Canyon mountainside, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. This is an aerial application of straw that will mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Jan. 12, 2018 -While avoidance and minimization of new overwater coverage was a key goal of the Seattle Multimodal Terminal at Colman Dock Project, the new facility will increase the overwater footprint by approximately 5,200 square feet. Mitigation for this increase in overwater coverage will be achieved by removing overwater coverage from Pier 48 (pictured above), a neighboring pier owned by WSDOT.
Habitat degradation and construction and operation of large hydrosystem dams on the Columbia River have reduced the survival and production of Pacific salmon returning to areas above Bonneville Dam. This program also provides mitigation for fish and habitat lost due to the construction and operation of John Day Dam. In FY2013, staff at the Little White Salmon/Willard NFH Complex (WA) collected 3,862 Upriver Bright Fall Chinook salmon to provide eggs for the hatchery release into the Little White Salmon River, for transfer of juvenile fish to the Yakama Nation Prosser Hatchery, and to provide a source of eggs for the Yakama Nation Klickitat hatchery program. Photo by Speros Doulos/USFWS.
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
Load crews drag a cargo net into position and lay it out for two straw bales put onto it on Friday, July 20, 2012, at the spillway of Seaman Reservoir, near Fort Collins, Colorado. The grapple equipped frontloader will then loosen and adjust the weight of the load on cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands, during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. The 100-150-foot cable holds and releases loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Fire hydrants in the winter. Don't get much plainer than this, well except maybe an old freight trainer. (That might be a Merle Travis lyric).
This one is shot on my 10s, with ilford hp5+, developed at home with Rodinal 1+50, scanned with an Epson V600
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
A ton of straw slowly falls during an aerial disbursement over a burned out area of the Poudre Canyon mountainside, on Friday, July 20, 2012, near Fort Collins, Colorado. This is an aerial application of straw that will mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley. Forest Service lands receive straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s peak more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. Their efforts have successfully kept water in the reservoir clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Mitigation work happening in 2020 near SR 539 and Ten Mile Road in Whatcom County will increase the size of existing wetlands and help reconnect Four Mile Creek to its natural floodplain. Adding large logs and root wads to the wetland buffer will protect water quality in the restored area.
Just in time for summer: Recreate Responsibly released an updated Wildfire Edition - along with an online wildfire resource center with tips and links to make the most of the summer safely and responsibly. Check it out and share the guidelines, tagging #RecreateResponsibly.
Load crews attach 100-150 foot ropes of a cargo net to a release mechanism hanging under a helicopter during the continuing aerial application of straw to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to Seaman Reservoir, drinking water resource for the City of Greeley, on Friday, July 20, 2012. Bell UH-1H (2-blade rotor) and A-Star Model B (3-blade rotor) aircraft were launched from a landing zone at the foot of the reservoir spillway. Pilots Randy Mason and Terry Richards in the Bell 204 and Tim Booth in the A-Star use their keen depth perception and piloting skills to keep their straw loads at the end of 100-150-foot cable above the trees and hilltops as they transport and release loads of certified straw weighing 1,400 – 2,000 pounds. 4-person load crews and heavy equipment operators with hydraulic hay fork grapple attachments make easy work of unloading 1,000 pound straw bales from tractor trailer rigs, stack them near the pickup point, then bring the bales onto cargo nets, open then loosen and adjust the load weight on the cargo nets for helicopters to lift and drop them onto barren, burned out tributary lands. Forest service lands received straw, while private and other lands receive a seed mix and straw to promote ground cover plant growth on ash-covered lands. In total, 1,800 tons of straw will be applied during the 14-day operation. One quarter of the cost was paid by the City of Greeley and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded the remainder. The Hewlett Gulch Fire was started by a camper’s alcohol stove, on May 14, at the saddle of a picturesque mountain ridge along the Hewlett Gulch Trail of Poudre Canyon, in the Roosevelt National Forest, 60 miles north of Denver. At it’s more than 400 firefighters were battling fires being pushed by 50 mph winds that helped blacken over 12-square-miles of dry ground cover, brush and trees. Many of the trees were already dead and tinder dry from beetle-kill. The water in the reservoir remains clean and clear, while downstream water flow has gone from famous Colorado clear water to nearly black flows of water heavily laden with ash, silt, and burnt debris that recent thunderstorms have already washed down from the mountainsides. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Once grading work is complete at the Four Mile Creek mitigation site, this large woody material will be put down to help protect the area and improve habitat options for species that call it home.
This video shows squirming little fish out of water as they're counted by Tulalip Tribes researchers and WSDOT biologists on May 12, 2021 in a restored estuary near Marysville, WA.
The dike that blocked water from reaching this area was breached in 2019 as part of our efforts to improve fish habitat near I-5 and SR 529. Improvements to a nearby interchange will result in the loss of some habitat and this restored estuary will offset that loss.
The early counts show our mitigation effort has been a great success. Fish returned almost immediately and began making it a home again where juvenile fish can rest and gain strength before journeying to the ocean.
Students at Cortes Elementary Junior Secondary school will soon have a seismically safe school, thanks to $2.3 million from the Province's award-winning Seismic Mitigation Program.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016EDUC0258-002495
Music-multimedia presentation of Post-Hewlett Gulch Fire aerial mitigation to protect the Milton L. Seaman Reservoir, the drinking water resource for the City of Greeley and Ft. Collins, Colo., on Friday, July 20, 2012. Helicopters airdroped straw onto barren, burned out tributary lands to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to this body of water. Rain runoff erosion has had dramatic effects in and on the normally clear mountain streams. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded three-quarters of operation. Music "The Days The Nights" by 20 20. USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.
The Old Spot.
Just above the Old Spot locality is the Little Para Reservoir. It was built between 1974 and 1978 and commissioned in 1979. It was built to mitigate flooding in the Salisbury area and as a major water storage facility but the Little Para and its tributaries are not sufficient to fill the reservoir so it has always needed pumped water from the Murray River to fill it. The Goodes family had an orchard in the Para River valley and it was their house and land that was flooded for the reservoir. This reservoir holds 20.8 megalitres compared with 45.9 for Mt Bold and 19 megalitres for Kangaroo Creek Reservoir so it is a major water storage facility of the Adelaide Hills. First reports of damming the Little Para were made in 1882 but nothing happened until 1974. Below the reservoir is the Old Spot district.
Thomas Williams of the Old Spot arrived in SA in 1839 and he was a prominent member ( i.e. investor) of the South Australian Company. He settled along the Little Para River and later returned to live in England where he died in 1881. He was an early but not the first owner of the Old Spot Hotel who was in fact Thomas Brook of England who acquired the license in 1840. John Harvey had the license from 1845-49. (He also owned and built the Salisbury Hotel in 1854 which he leased out for many years.) It was 1849 when Thomas Williams took out the license which he held until 1870. This river here was discovered very early in April 1837 by Assistant Surveyor Boyle.T. Finniss. A hotel was licensed at this spot in 1840 and changed hands several times in the 1840s until Thomas Williams took it over in 1849. This hotel must not be confused with a hotel of the same name in Gawler. The Salisbury Old Spot Hotel was a half way point for bullock teams and horse riders from Adelaide to Gawler. It became a busy spot after the discovery of copper at Kapunda in 1842 and again at Burra in 1845. A daughter of Thomas William, Miss Ellie Williams opened a new bridge across the Little Para here in 1865. The Williams family worshiped at the nearby Wesleyan Methodist Church and their family vault is still there. A son of Thomas Williams took over the hotel from his father and ran it until 1899 when the innovative Frederick Kuhlmann bought the premises. He had a new hotel erected in 1909 which incorporated several rooms of the 1840 building. Kuhlmann also had a nursery and orange orchard behind the hotel hence his need for a waterwheel. The Old Spot Hotel has been added to several times since 1914 but some original walls are probably still lurking in the interior somewhere!
It was at the old Spot that a small Wesleyan Methodist Church was erected in 1857. Local families mainly the Whitfords gathered funds from neighbours to purchase a half ace block from Thomas Williams in 1856 with the church opening soon after in 1857. Beside it was a small cemetery. Little remains of that these days except for the remains of the Williams family vault. Other headstones were removed to Hephzibah cemetery in Salisbury when the cemetery was cleared after much vandalism in 1993. The church itself lost membership as Salisbury grew and the church closed around 1880. The church was not sold until after the three Methodist churches amalgamated in 1900 and it was demolished by new owners in 1905. The cemetery was used until 1889. The land on which the church stood was made into a small reserve by the Munno Para Council. The mover behind the church Henry Whitford took up his first land at the Old Spot in 1853 when he started renting land (about 150 acres) from John Ridley the inventor of the wheat stripper. By 1870 Henry Whitford had purchased his land and had 911 acres of cropping land stretching up towards One Tree Hill. Henry Whitford a founding trustee of the church and cemetery was buried there in 1889 but his headstone is now in the Hephzibah cemetery in Salisbury.
Oranges along the Para.
The orange tree is botanically known as citrus sinensis which comes from China but is grown in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. The fruit of this tree gave us the name for one of our primary colours. This colour was first recoded in the English language in 1512. Orange is a Sanskrit Indian word. In Europe oranges have been grown in Italy and Spain since they were brought there by the Crusaders in 1100s from the Middle East. The first mention of commercial orange growing along the Para was in 1870 when Mr Urlwin exhibited Salisbury oranges at the Adelaide Royal Show. Then Mr F Fendon was described in newspapers in 1876 as a pioneer of commercial orange growing at Salisbury as he had been experimenting with orange trees since 1850. He hoped his display at the Salisbury Show of 1876 would encourage others to turn to orange growing. He had 20 varieties growing along Para when he exhibited them at the Salisbury Annual Show in 1876. More oranges were grown in the 1880s and by the 1890s hundreds of cases a year were being exported by P & O steamers to London. Thus the big expansion of commercial orange growing was in the 1880s. The oranges grown were Navel, Valencias, Washingtons and Lisbons( lemon) and these were the four” houses” in the Salisbury Primary School in the 1950s. Other earlier varieties grown included Sabina (a sour Italian orange), Rio (a red grapefruit), Seville oranges etc. Navel orange is a variety that was developed in Brazil in the 1820s, Washingtons were also from Brazil but Navels were developed for commercial orchards in California. Mr Russsell of Paralowie House is a good example of what Salisbury farmers did. He converted from growing oats and wheat to oranges in 1890. He planted 82 acres of his 122 acres in citrus trees 21 feet apart giving him over 1,000 trees. The annual floods of the Little Para were the secret of providing the rich alluvial soils in the Para valley. Other early citrus growers in Salisbury were the Kuhlmann, Moss, Tate, Jenkins, Harvey, Ponton and Sayer families. In the 1970s as the citrus industry died the flood plains of the Little Para were converted to parklands if they flooded or to housing if they were not flood prone. But once the Little Para Reservoir was completed the annual floods stopped anyway. Oranges were also extensively grown at Golden Grove. During the dry of summer water was taken from the Little Para to irrigate the oranges and one old stone waterwheel used for this purpose has been restored in Salisbury. That waterwheel was built for orange grower Frederick Kuhlmann of the Old Spot Hotel in 1899 and used until the 1940s.