Photo Credit: Kelly Fike/USFWS The UN’s annual World Water Development Report 2018 has highlighted the need to use nature to...
Prairie STRIPS program expands with new grant
Narrow strips of native prairie planted on cropland, like the one shown above, can yield immense environmental benefits. The STRIPS...
To Save Their Water Supply, Colorado Farmers Taxed Themselves
A sign advertising a water sale sits on a farm outside Del Norte, Colorado. The Western U.S. is just starting...
Safe drinking water must be a shared value in Minnesota
Proposed rules on agriculture fertilizer would help protect groundwater. It’s hard to persuade residents of a state whose very name...
The simple river-cleaning tactics that big farms ignore
Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa...