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Soil and Water Conservation Society
2002 Annual Conference
July 13-17, 2002 at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana
Theme: "Setting the Pace for Conservation"
Email: Pat Mulligan, patm@swcs.org |
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REGISTER NOW!!!
To register, print out this preliminary program (pdf version) and return the registration form by fax or mail.
Program at a Glance
Plenary Sessions
Concurrent Sessions
Special Concurrent Sessions
Workshops
Plenary Sessions
Opening Plenary –– Monday, 8:15 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Indiana Welcome
Frank O’Bannon, Governor of Indiana (Invited)
Jim Moseley, deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Invited)
Plenary II –– Monday, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
2002 Farm Bill: What’s In It for Conservation?
The 2002 farm bill has been called the most important piece of conservation and environmental legislation likely to pass the U.S. Congress in the next four years. Two years ago, at our 2000 annual conference, we asked a panel of experts to tells us what they thought the 2002 farm bill should accomplish for conservation. We are bringing that panel back this year to review what actually happened in the farm bill.
Otto Doering, Purdue University professor, will lead a lively discussion among a panel of experts who were close observers of and participants in the 2002 farm bill debate. The panelists will include William Northey, Iowa farmer and member of the 21st Century Commission on Agriculture, Ann Tutwiler, president of the International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade, Tim Searchinger, lead advocate on agriculture for Environmental Defense, and Craig Cox, executive vice president of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Dr. Doering will engage the panel and the audience in a discussion of the implications of the farm bill for conservationists.
Plenary III –– Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Regulating Agriculture?
Voluntary programs have been the primary tools used to address agriculture’s environmental agenda. Many observers, however, are arguing that regulation will be needed to make real progress toward improving agriculture’s environmental performance. In a few cases, state, provincial, or local governments are already implementing regulatory programs to manage the environmental effects of agriculture. Federal regulation in the U.S. affects selected agricultural operations, most notably large confined animal feeding operations.
George Anthan, former national correspondent for the Des Moines Register will lead a discussion exploring the proper role, if any, of regulation in addressing agriculture’s environmental agenda. He will pose questions to a panel of agricultural producers, state officials, advocates and others involved in the ongoing debate over voluntary versus regulatory approaches to environmental management in agriculture. Our goal is an informed discussion leading to a better understanding of how voluntary and regulatory programs can be designed to work for agriculture, the environment, and the public. |
Concurrent Sessions
General and special concurrent sessions will take place on Monday morning and afternoon. Presentation titles and corresponding authors are listed here. All abstracts will be printed in a 2002 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and distributed on-site with registration.
Morning Session: 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Land Use – Reconciling Economics, Ethics, and Ecology
The Countryside: Urban Areas in Waiting or a Resource to Preserve? Wayne Caldwell, University of Guelph
Technology and Comprehensive Land Use Planning, Douglas Miskowiak, University of Wisconsin
Cropland Value is Increasingly Related to Factors Determined Outside Agriculture, Richard Nehring, USDA-ERS
Planning in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds, Stephen E. Kraft, Southern Illinois University
Resources Management for Sustainable Agriculture in Kenya, Joseph Mwangi, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution
Fecal Coliform TMDLs in Virginia - Common Findings, Theo Dillaha, Virginia Tech
Relating Farm Size to the Spatial Distribution of Soil Phosphorus at Multiple Scales, Perr Cabot, University of Wisconsin
Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution on Amish Farms, James Hoorman
Nutrient Management Legislation in Ontario, Pamela Joossee, Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs
Soil Management in U.S. Corn Production-Implications for the Environment, Lee Christensen, USDA-ERS
The CRP EBI as an Indicator of Riparian Ecosystem Services, Stephen E. Kraft, Southern Illinois University
CBP Watershed Model: Tracking NPS Nutrient Sources, Russell Mader, USDA-NRCS, Chesapeake Bay Program Office
Addressing Barriers to the Adoption of the Pre-Sidedress Soil Nitrate Test, David Hansen, University of Delaware
Land Application of Manure by Animal Feeding Operations: Is More Land Needed, Marc Ribaudo, USDA-ERS
Delivering Manure Management Strategies in Michigan, Janice Swartz Wilford, Michigan Department of Agriculture
Measuring Conservation Progress
Soil Quality Indicators and Their Use in Agricultural Policy in Canada, C.A. Scott Smith, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
Environmental Services Farmland Owners Are Willing to Provide, J. Dixon Esseks, University of Nebraska
The Minnesota Citizen Stream Monitoring Program, Bill Thompson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Using TRANSECT for Analyzing Cropland Use and Tillage Trends, Mark Evans
A Simple Approach to Accountability and Reporting Progress, Wes Stone, IDEM Watershed Management Section
Change Towards Groundwater Stewardship in Adults After Attending A Home*A*Syst Program, Kristin Linderman
Community Capacity to Conduct Drought Contingency Planning in Ontario, Jennifer Durley, University of Guelph
Great Lakes Environmental Indicators, Roger D. Nanney, USDA-NRCS
Perceived Agricultural Chemical Risk in Two Central Ohio Watersheds, Mark Tucker, Ohio State University
More Effective Local Conservation, Stephen Lovejoy, Purdue University
Special Concurrent Session
Alternative Agricultural Enterprises: A Market-based Approach to Land Use Management. Session Organizer: Larry Libby, Ohio State University
The proximity to urban areas creates opportunities for farmers to develop alternative agricultural enterprises which can help maintain diverse landscapes in rapidly developing areas. This session identifies the nature of these opportunities and discusses strategies to help farmers transition to value added and niche enterprises.
NRCS Integrated Accountability.
Session Leaders: Jon Vrana and Ken Tootle USDA-NRCS
The Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Performance and Results Measurement System has now been fully integrated with Workload Analysis, Workload Management, Time and Cost Accounting, and Business Planning, to Become the Integrated Accountability System. Two years of national performance data stored in databases, data warehouses, and other information repositories creates a major opportunity to assess the performance of conservation programs. This session will introduce participants to tools and techniques that are being developed to transform these data into useful information for program managers and policymakers. On-line analytical processing and on-line analytical data mining tools and techniques will be demonstrated.
Afternoon Session, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Land Use – Reconciling Economics, Ethics, and Ecology
Land Protection and SWCDs: Minnesota Overview and the Rationale for Greater District Involvement, John Vickery
Developing a Land-Use Monitoring Program for Georgia, Jimmy Bramblett, University of Georgia
Natural Resource Assessment Process for Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism, James Maetzold, USDA-NRCS
Sensitivity of Erosion to Climate Change in the Midwestern U.S., Monte O’Neal, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
Agricultural Reserve Program: Virginia Beach’s Solution to Farmland Preservation, Gene Crabtree, USDA-NRCS
The New Illinois Home*A*C*R*E Program, Robert Frazee, University of Illinois Extension
Access Illinois Outdoors, Martha Sheppard
Manure Management Fouls Farm-Neighbor Relations, Peter Wright, Cornell University
A GIS Analysis of High Quality Land Under Development Pressure in Kentucky, Demetrio Zourarakis, Kentucky Division of Conservation
Assessing Local Attitudes Toward Growth and Environmental/Farmland Protection, Kenneth Genskow, University of Wisconsin
An Agricultural Information Management Framework for Local Government Planning in Alberta, Canada, Jim Hiley, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Toward a New Definition of Soil Loss Tolerance for the United States, Mark Nearing, USDA-ARS
Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution
Living on the Land: Educating Small Acreage Owners About Pollution Prevention, Susan Donaldson
Optimizing Placement of Practices to Intercept Nutrients in a Tiled-Drained Agricultural Watershed, Mark Tomer, USDA-ARS NSTL
Impact of Dairy Herd Size on Per Hectare N, P and K Accumulations: A Mass Balance Approach, Kevin Erb, University of Wisconsin Extension NPM
Competition for Land to Spread Manure under Changing Water-Quality Guidelines, Marcel Aillery, USDA-ERS
Stream Monitoring to Estimate Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads, Claire Baffaut, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
Livestock Environmental Management Systems, Lyn Kirschner, CTIC
Effectiveness of Stiff-Stemmed Grass Hedges in Reducing Sediment Yield from a Row-Cropped Watershed, E. Eugene Alberts, USDA-ARS
The Lower Musconetcong Water Quality Incentive Program, Brian Aldrich
Holistic Assessment of the Shoal Creek Watershed, Claire Baffaut, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri – Columbia
Using a Watershed Assessment in Managing NonPoint Source Pollution, Doug Bahl, USDA-NRCS
Big Walnut Creek Watershed Runoff Reduction and Monitoring Project, Dan Binder, Water Quality Assurance Lab
Selenium Sources in the Uncompahgre Valley of Western Colorado - Relationship of Irrigated to Unirrigated Soils, Juli Fahy, Bureau of Reclamation
NPS Pollution Related to Forest Management Activities in Southern States, John M. Grace, US-FS
Spatial Distribution of Soil Limitations and Onsite Wastewater Disposal System Performance, Heidi Stout, Purdue University
The Role of Soil in Successful, Proper Functioning Onsite Wastewater Soil Absorption Systems, Randall Miles, University of Missouri-Columbia
Formative Evaluation of Water Quality Communication Channels in information and
Education Programs, Garrett O’Keefe, Colorado State University
Impact Analysis of Farmers’ Economic and Environmental Preferences in an Agricultural
Watershed, Zeyuan Qiu, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Assessing Soil Erosion Rates on Volcanic Soils Under Intensive Vegetable Production in New Zealand by the 137Cs technique, Craig Ross, Landcare Research New Zealand Limited
Special Concurrent Session
Case Studies of Enforceable BMPs in Agriculture.
Session Organizer: Stuart Lehman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Law Institute, with EPA’s assistance, has produced 3 volumes of a reports describing programs that address nonpoint sources of pollution using enforceable mechanisms or regulatory methods. This session will provide several examples of these types of programs relating to the agricultural community. Speakers, with experience in implementing these programs in several areas of the country, will explore what led to the agency (or trade organization- in the case of “self regulation”) to take a regulatory approach and provide insights into what is working and what is not.
PAM (polyacrylamide): Applications for Conservation of Soil and Water Quality. Session Organizers: Warren Busscher, USDA-ARS; Robert Sojka, USDA-ARS; and Jorge Delgado, USDA-ARS
This 3rd Joint Annual Symposium of SWCS and Division S-6 of the Soil Science Society of America will introduce participants to the use of polyacrylamides (PAM) as conservation tools to conservation soil and water resources. PAMs include hundreds of specific polymer formulations, varying in chain length and number and kinds of functional group substitutions. PAMs that are used in soils are “off the shelf” industrial flocculent polymers that are used extensively to accelerate separation of solids from aqueous suspensions in sewage sludge dewatering, mining, and paper manufacture. In soil and water conservation, PAM is highly effective at preventing erosion and enhancing infiltration when applied at very low rates in furrow irrigation water. This symposium will help participants understand how to choose the right PAM formulation for their application and to properly balance treatment effectiveness with safety.
Workshops
Workshops are designed to enhance participants’ professional skills through hands-on training and education in selected topics. Workshops will be offered on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday. You need to register for these workshops even if no additional fee is required.
Saturday, July 13
WEPP Training Session - #11 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
This workshop will explain the definitions and basic science behind the WEPP model. You will also get hands-on experience and work through application examples including: GeoWEPP-GIS applications with digital elevation data, the Forest Service Web-browser based applications and WEPP applications from Range, Forest, Crop and Construction. Attendees should bring a notebook computer with WEPP preloaded. If you wish to run GeoWEPP (A GIS based model that uses DEM’s) bring your computer with ArcView loaded on it. Also, if you’ll tell us your location of interest, we’ll have the DEMs and DRGs available. A CD will be mailed to pre-registered participants and will also be available at the training. The notebook computer must be running Windows 95, 98 or 2000, NT and XP. The hard drive should have a minimum of 100 mb of free space.
Cost: $ 30.00
Sunday, July 14
Planning and Designing Riparian Buffers - # 13 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
The workshop will focus on how to plan and design riparian buffers. Exercises will be targeted particularly at incorporating riparian buffers into more comprehensive conservation planning. Several exercises will be used to show how to formulate landscape scale objectives, how to do a cursory site investigation, and how to design a buffer for multiple objectives.
Instructor: Lyn Townsend, NRCS Forest Ecologist
Cost: $30.00 – minimum 10, maximum 25
Locally Led Conservation - # 14 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Local leadership and community level decision-making have been guiding conservation for nearly 60 years. This workshop will provide (1) an overview of locally led, community-based environmental decision making in U.S. conservation programs; (2) a summary of success stories from selected issues and regions; (3) the basic principles of community-based decision making; (4) logistical “how to” principles for those involved with collaborative groups and citizen involvement processes; (5) building local capacity and leadership for community-based decision making; (6) setting realistic expectations for collaborative groups, and (7) the role of local “public sector” conservation professionals in nurturing the process.
Instructor: Robin Shepard, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cost: $30.00 – minimum 25, maximum 50
Agricultural TMDL – Development and Implementation - # 15 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
The agricultural Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) workshop, presented by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) will address the recent and innovative practices in developing and implementing TMDL’s in agricultural areas. The course will identify technical procedures through recent case studies in a variety of regions throughout the country. Implementation planning and funding opportunities will also be described. Presentations will be given by leading experts in the TMDL process.
Instructors: Kevin Kratt, Shad Bowman, and Kristen Dorrs Tetra Tech.
Cost $125.00 – minimum 20,
Erosion and Sediment Control workshop - # 12 - 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
The workshop will cover the principles of sediment and erosion control. The focus will be on the materials and topics you will need to prepare for CPESC exams offered on Tuesday.
Cost: $140.00 includes workbook
Tools for Building Green Infrastructure Where You Live, Work, and Play - # 16 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The interconnected network of natural green areas like waterways, wetlands, and forests; conservation lands like greenways and parks; and adjacent working land like farms, ranches, and corporate land are called Green Infrastructure. Together these lands support native species, maintain natural ecological processes, sustain air and water resources, and contribute to the health and quality of life for communities.
This workshop will help participants understand how to use conservation, financial, and community management tools to build Green Infrastructure as an integral part of the urban and rural landscape that can provide the strategic conservation framework need for environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Instructors: Avery Patillo, USDA-NRCS; Mark Green; Superintendent, Water Pollution Division, Topeka, Kansas; Richard Straight, USDA National Agroforestry Center; Kevin Warren, Lake Erie Land Company.
Cost: $50.00 – minimum 20, maximum 60
Tuesday, July 16
Proactive Conservation Communication - # 20 8:30 am – 10:30 pm
Learn the principles of effective communication and marketing. Learn how to organize and implement strategic communication and marketing plans that result in more conservation on the ground.
Instructors: Frank Clearfield, NRCS Social Sciences Institute; Lynn Betts, NRCS public affairs specialist and Max Schnepf, coordinator of USDA’s National Conservation Buffer Initiative.
Cost: $15.00 – minimum 15, maximum 35
Using RUSLE2 for Conservation Planning- # 21 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
This workshop will help participants know how RUSLE2 works, understand how to choose input values, be able to interpret outputs, and know where to get more information. Your instructors have extensive experience in implementing and applying RUSLE and RUSLE2, building databases, and training RUSLE2 users. Participants must bring their own laptop computers. RUSLE2 runs on Win95, Win98, and WinNT.
Cost: $100.00 – minimum 20, maximum 25
Specialty Forest Product Production and Marketing - # 22 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This intensive 2-hour workshop will provide in-depth, detailed, business and research-based production, processing and market information on a wide range of specialty forest products, including: •food crops (walnuts, pecans, chestnuts and hazelnuts, currants, bush and chokecherries, saskatoons, elderberries, and many others); decorative woody florals (curly, basket and pussy willows, forsythia, red birch and others); and medicinals (ginseng, goldenseal, ginkgo, etc.).
The workshop will explore how these products can be integrated into agricultural production systems, particularly those appropriate for suburban and urban fringe areas. It will also examine production and processing requirements, yields, markets, labor requirements, and economics. Armed with extensive market analyses and the latest in field-based production information, you’ll leave this workshop well equipped to determine the best woody cropping alternatives for their situation.
Instructor: Dr. Scott J. Josiah, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Cost: $ 0.00 – minimum 25, maximum 50
CPESC Certification Examination - # 23 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
You must be eligible to take this examination. Please register for the examination if you plan to take it.
REGISTER NOW!!!
To register, print out this preliminary program (pdf version) and return the registration form by fax or mail.
The final program will be available in July 2002.
PLAN ON COMING NEXT YEAR!
2003 SWCS Annual Conference
July 25-31, 2003
Spokane, Washington
Theme: The Columbia--Conserving a Legacy of Life
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