Restoring the Chesapeake Bay One Small Watershed at a Time
Historic Win For the Chesapeake Bay TMDL
Chesapeake Bay TMDL Wins in Court Five years of court battles are over. Today, a leap day that will never be forgotten in watershed restoration, the Chesapeake Bay, with over 10,000 streams and all its inhabitants won in the Chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied […]
Bobby’s Free ebook: Selling Riparian Forest Buffers
The Queen Bean, Tofu & Dead Zones (JMU Students)
Tofu. That’s what most people think soybeans are grown for. But most soybeans in the U.S. are grown for oil and livestock feed. It’s big business. America is the world’s largest producer and exporter of soybeans with almost 75 million acres planted annually. It is second only to corn, planted on roughly 84 million acres. […]
The Queen Bean, Tofu and Dead Zones
Tofu. That’s what most people think soybeans are grown for. But most soybeans in the U.S. are grown for oil and livestock feed. It’s big business. America is the world’s largest producer and exporter of soybeans with almost 75 million acres planted annually. It is second only to corn, planted on roughly 84 million acres. […]
Soil Saturated With Phosphorus? – Don’t Apply Anymore Manure (JMU Students)
Maryland: The newly elected republican governor, Larry Hogan repealed the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s “Phosphorus Management Tool”. Read my rant here. This trashes decades of phosphorus research and will further pollute the streams in Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. It basically allows farmers to continue applying poultry manure to fields already saturated with phosphorus. The […]
Soil Saturated With Phosphorus? – Don’t Apply Anymore Manure
Maryland: The newly elected republican governor, Larry Hogan repealed the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s “Phosphorus Management Tool”. Read my rant here. This trashes decades of phosphorus research and will further pollute the streams in Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. It basically allows farmers to continue applying poultry manure to fields already saturated with phosphorus. The […]
Leaves from Native Trees – The Foundation of Freshwater Ecosystems (JMU Students)
Virginia Wildlife Magazine published my article “Fish Need Leaves” in their Jan/Feb 2015 issue. More information about Virginia’s premier wildlife magazine can be found here: www.dgif.virginia.gov/virginia.wildlife Excluding livestock from streams is a first big step for agriculture in restoring water resources and complying with the law that the US Congress passed in 1972 – The Clean […]
Leaves from Native Trees – The Foundation of Freshwater Ecosystems
Virginia Wildlife Magazine published my article “Fish Need Leaves” in their Jan/Feb 2015 issue. More information about Virginia’s premier wildlife magazine can be found here: www.dgif.virginia.gov/virginia.wildlife Excluding livestock from streams is a first big step for agriculture in restoring water resources and complying with the law that the US Congress passed in 1972 – The Clean […]
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