May-June 2007

Editor’s Desk
Viewing soil conservation from another lens
Mark Anderson-Wilk, editor

Your Letters
Readers’ forum

Home Front
Assessing the Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Craig A. Cox, executive director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Viewpoint
Setting America on the right biofuels path
Julie Sibbing, National Wildlife Federation

In the News
Conservation news you can use

Feature
Colloidal transport: The facilitated movement of contaminants into groundwater
Brian K. Richards, John F. McCarthy, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Anthony G. Hay, Yuniati Zevi, and
Annette Dathe

Conservation in Action
Limiting total dissolved solids to protect aquatic life
Rod Bodkin, James Kern, Phillip McClellan, Arthur J. Butt, and Charles Martin

Research

Managing variable source pollution in agricultural watersheds
Z. Qiu, M.T. Walter, and C. Hall

Land use change and gully erosion in the Piedmont region of South Carolina
M.A. Galang, D. Markewitz, L.A. Morris, and P. Bussell

Prospects for enhanced groundwater recharge via infiltration of urban storm water runoff: A case study
W.D. Shuster, R. Gehring, and J. Gerken

Sedimentation in three small erosion control reservoirs in northern Mississippi
D.G. Wren, R.R. Wells, C.G. Wilson, C.M. Cooper, and S. Smith Jr.

Potential impact of conservation tillage on conserving water resources in Georgia
D.G. Sullivan, C.C. Truman, H.H. Schomberg, D.M. Endale, and D.H. Franklin

The importance and challenge of modeling irrigation-induced erosion
R.E. Sojka, D.L. Bjorneberg, T.J. Trout, T.S. Strelkoff, and M.A. Nearing

Unit source area data: Can it make a difference in calibrating the hydrologic response for watershed-scale modeling?
M.W. Van Liew, C.H. Green, and P.J. Starks