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Grassland Reserve Program. The grassland reserve program is a voluntary landowner program than provides financial and educational support to landowners wishing to maintain or enhance grasslands on their property. The program allows for restoration of multiple types of grasslands including shrub-land, pasture, and range.
Participants can receive no more than $450,000 between FY2002 and FY2007. Two new sub-programs were created. One provides matching grants for innovative conservation efforts, such as using market systems to reduce pollution and promoting carbon sequestration in soil. The second is the Ground and Surface Water Conservation Program (GSWP).
AFT helped create state and local land trusts throughout the country including the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust in 1995 [9] and the Texas Agricultural Land Trust in 2006. [ 10 ] In 2012, with the Electric Power Research Institute and an expert advisory committee, AFT launched the first and largest water quality credit trading ...
The White House recently announced that the U.S. Forest Service awarded $1 billion in grants nationwide, including two for cities in Central Texas.
A pest-exclusion fence is a barrier that is built to exclude certain types of animal pests from an enclosure. This may be to protect plants in horticulture , preserve grassland for grazing animals, separate species carrying diseases ( vector species ) from livestock, prevent troublesome species entering roadways, or to protect endemic species ...
The tradition of fencing out unwanted livestock prevails even today in some sparsely populated areas. For example, until the mid-20th century, most states in the American West were called "open range" ("fence out") states, in contrast to Eastern and Midwestern states which long had "fence in" laws where livestock must be confined by their ...
Texas Animal Health Commission. The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) is a state agency of Texas. Its headquarters are located at 2105 Kramer Lane in Austin. [1] The commission exists to help protect the health of livestock within the state. [2] The TAHC was founded in 1893 to address the Texas fever tick problem.
The side-gig industry is still booming, but not all side gigs are created equal and not all people doing them make enough money to justify the time and effort involved. According to Self, just ...