Soil Science 321, Fall 2005

Soil Management and Conservation

Internet Addresses:

Students should be able to access some of the World Wide Web sites that contain information on soil and water conservation. Some are listed below:

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov

National Soil Erosion Research Lab
http://topsoil.nserl.purdue.edu/

USDA-ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit
http://www.weru.ksu.edu/weps.html

Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/CTIC/Ctic.html

Land Use - Land degradation and desertification
http://www.ciesin.org/TG/LU/process.html

Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service - USA
http://www.reeusda.gov/statepartners/usa.htm

National Soil Survey Center (NSSC)
http://www.statlab.iastate.edu:80/soils/nssc/

National Soils Data Access Facility (NSDAF)
http://www.statlab.iastate.edu:80/soils/nsdaf/

North Dakota Extension Service
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/

Minnesota Extension Service
http://www.extension.umn.edu/

Potash Phosphate Institute (PPI)
http://www.ppi-ppic.org

Americas Private Land-A Geography of Hope
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/CCS/GHopeHit.html

American Farmland Trust
http://www.farmland.org/

Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org/

Soil and Water Conservation Society
http://www.swcs.org/

Nonpoint Source Information
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/npsie.html

Geographic Information Systems
http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html

2000 Farm Bill
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov./programs/farmbill/2002/

National Resource Inventory (NRI) Data
http://www.nrcs.gov/NRI/Technical/1997 /

Precision Agriculture
http://www.precisionag.com/

National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP)
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu

Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association
http://www.mandakzerotill.org/

Sugar Beet Research and Education Board of MN and ND http://www.sbreb.org

USDA:NRCS Soil Quality Institute

http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/survey/SQI

NRCS Technical Resources
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/

North Dakota Earthworms
http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/invert/wormsnd/wormsnd.htm

STEEP III Conservation Tillage System Information Source
http://pnwsteep.wsu.edu/

RIST-Rainfall Intensity Summarization Tool
http://www.sedlab.olemiss.edu/rist.html

USDA:ARS:NSL Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
http://www.sedlab.olemiss.edu/RUSLE

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