Editor’s Desk

Does community-supported agriculture support conservation?

Mark Anderson-Wilk, editor

Home Front

A very good year

Craig A. Cox, executive director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Viewpoints

Conservation issues of yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Maurice G. Cook

Rising to the challenge of Hugh Hammond Bennett

David Sanders

Conservationist Profile

Thaler Land and Livestock, Wyoming

In the News

Runoff from potato farms blamed for fish kills on Canadian island

Kathy Birt

Conservation in action

Heron Lake watershed conservation strip tillage demonstration

Melanie Luinenburg

Ideas & Innovations

Ancient water systems provide lessons for today

Michael Kennth Cowan

Features

Soils and runaway global warming: Terra incognita

Philippe C. Baveye

Strategies for soil conservation in no-tillage and organic farming systems

John R. Teasdale

Tech Transfer Briefing

Is setting aside highly erodible cropland for carbon storage economically viable?

Mark Sperow

Changes in carbon storage in inland saline-alkalined wetlands

Junhong Bai

Phosphorus-based management challenges and strategies for poultry farming

Andrew N. Sharpley, Sheri Herron, and Tommy Daniel

The capacity of forested filter strips to retain sediment

Lawrence A. Morris

Evaluation of erosion control methods for storm water quality

L. Britt Faucette, Jason Governo, Carl F. Jordan, B. Graeme Lockaby, Honorio F. Carino, and Robin Governo

Predictors of field-scale variation of soil phosphorus

Sheilah C. Nolan, Joanne L. Little, Janna P. Casson, Frank J. Hecker, and Barry M. Olson

An integrated economic-hydrologic framework for evaluating environmental effects and cost effectiveness of conservation programs and management practices

Wanhong Yang, Alain N. Rousseau, and Peter Boxall

Can the Soil Conditioning Index be successfully used for semiarid, hot, sandy soils?

Ted. M. Zobeck

The profitability factor of controlled drainage implementation

Adela P. Nistor and Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer

Implementation update

Modifying erosion control structures for ecological benefits

F. Douglas Shields Jr., Peter C. Smiley Jr., and Charles M. Cooper

A model for reducing soil erosion by tillage

Lorenzo Borselli and Dino Torri

Applied research

The marginal costs of carbon sequestration: Implications of one greenhouse gas mitigation activity

M Sperow

Overcoming the challenges of phosphorus-based management in poultry farming

A.N. Sharpley, S. Herron, and T. Daniel

Annual distribution of rainfall erosivity in western Andalusia, southern Spain

L. Domínguez-Romero, J.L. Ayuso Muñoz, and A.P. García Marín

Erosion control and storm water quality from straw with PAM, mulch, and compost blankets of varying particle sizes

L.B. Faucette, J. Governo, C.F. Jordan, B.G. Lockaby, H.F. Carino, and R. Governo

Field-scale variation of soil phosphorus within small Alberta watersheds

S.C. Nolan, J.L. Little, J.P. Casson, F.J. Hecker, and B.M. Olson

An integrated economic-hydrologic modeling framework for the watershed evaluation of beneficial management practices

W. Yang, A.N. Rousseau, and P. Boxall

Investigation of Soil Conditioning Index values for Southern High Plains agroecosystems

T.M. Zobeck, J. Crownover, M. Dollar, R.S. Van Pelt, V. Acosta-Martinez, K.F. Bronson, and D.R. Upchurch

Drainage water management impact on farm profitability

A.P. Nistor and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer

Soil organic carbon contents of two natural inland saline-alkalined wetlands in northeastern China

J. Bai, C. Baoshan, W. Deng, Z. Yang, Q. Wang, and Q. Ding

Sediment retention by forested filter strips in the Piedmont of Georgia

W.J. White, L.A. Morris, A.P. Pinho, C.R. Jackson, and L.T. West

Volume 62 (2007) Index