Editor’s Desk
Reversing wetlands history
Mark Anderson-Wilk, editor

Your Letters
Readers’ forum

Home Front
The promise and peril of biofuels
Craig A. Cox, executive director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Viewpoints

Partnering to achieve conservation goals
Edward B. Knipling, administrator of the USDA Agricultural Research Service

Making every acre count for conservation
Arlen L. Lancaster, chief of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Conservationist Profile
Jonny Harris, Greenview Farms, Georgia

Conservation in practice
Attitudes of Great Plains producers about best management practices, conservation programs, and water quality
Craig M. Smith, Jeffrey M. Peterson, and John C. Leatherman

Conservation Education
Streamside science: Tailoring watershed education to meet the needs of teachers
Nancy O. Mesner and Andreé D. Walker

Feature
A decade of advances in cover crops: Cover crops with limited irrigation can increase yields, crop quality, and nutrient and water use efficiencies while protecting the environment
Jorge A. Delgado, Merlin A. Dillon, Richard T. Sparks, and Samuel Y.C. Essah

Tech transfer Briefing

Using compost to encourage vegetation and limit erosion on mountain road cuts
Matthew J. Curtis, Mark E. Grismer, and Victor P. Claassen

Impact of land use fragmentation and larger herd sizes on manure recycling energy and cost
William L. Bland

Improving riparian buffer performance
Mark D. Tomer, Thomas B. Moorman, John L. Kovar, David E. James, and Michael R. Burkart

Predicting wind erosion and windblown dust emissions at the regional scale to guide strategic conservation targeting
Guanglong Feng and Brenton Sharratt

Reducing the impacts of mechanical thinning in a southwestern forest
Douglas S. Cram, Terrell T. Baker, Alexander G. Fernald, Anthony Madrid, and Bob Rummer

In the News
Conservation news you can use

Applied research
Scaling from field to region for wind erosion prediction using the Wind Erosion Prediction System and geographical information systems
G. Feng and B. Sharratt

Spatial patterns of sediment and phosphorus in a riparian buffer in western Iowa
M.D. Tomer, T.B. Moorman, J.L. Kovar, D.E. James, and M.R. Burkart

Effect of compost incorporation on infiltration capacity and erosion from a decomposed granite road cut
M.J. Curtis, M.E. Grismer, and V.P. Claassen

Theoretical analysis of manure transport distance as a function of herd size and landscape fragmentation
K.D. Bartelt and W.L. Bland

Are cover crops being used in the US corn belt?
J.W. Singer, S.M. Nusser, and C.J. Alf

Mechanical thinning impacts on runoff, infiltration, and sediment yield following fuel reduction treatments in a southwestern dry mixed conifer forest
D.S. Cram, T.T. Baker, A.G. Fernald, A. Madrid, and B. Rummer