Posts Tagged: wetlands

Grazing as a Public Good in Western Minnesota

Posted July 30th, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

As a Nature Conservancy scientist based in a Midwestern state, Steve Chaplin thinks a lot about the impact agriculture has on ecological treasures such as native tallgrass prairie. “Other than… Read more »

Senate Listens to Public & Makes Crop Insurance More Accountable to the Environment

Posted June 22nd, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

The  U.S. Senate passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill this week. While it’s far from perfect, specific amendments related to conservation and accountability  that were passed during the… Read more »

Restoring Watershed Health: Drop-by-Drop

Posted May 20th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

Another rainy Friday: a good time to contemplate what trying to produce food on an industrial scale has done  to our natural plumbing—and how it pays back the favor.

How to ‘Deal’ with NRCS, Drain a Wetland & Erode More Soil

Posted March 26th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

While driving in southern Minnesota this week, I gazed upon acre-after-acre of  black fields—a sign that despite a wet fall, a lot of intense tillage took place before the snow… Read more »