Clay County is accepting nominations for its Forests and Farms Conservation Lands Program through the end of February. The program allows the county to partner with local landowners to protect ...

Conservation programs that have been included in farm bills since the New Deal originally set out to protect the country’s agricultural productive capacity and to provide income support for important ...

Smithsonian Working Land and Seascapes’ new study unveils conservation’s ability to advance progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals Caitlyn Dittmeier “The whole is greater than the sum of ...

Human activity significantly impacts wildlife and their habitats, threatening biodiversity. At Michigan Tech, our master's in wildlife ecology and conservation addresses these challenges. We monitor ...

It takes intentionality to meet the requirements, but it’s possible to layer federal and private conservation programs to add extra cash to your bottom line. “When carbon programs are appropriately ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and ...

Private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land. Virginia ...

A strip-tilled farm field, pictured Nov. 18, 2020, has been seeded with a cover crop in rural Linn County. Fewer than one-quarter of Iowa applications for federal cost sharing for farm conservation ...

The biggest farmland conservation program has shrunk dramatically since the last farm bill, with no sign Congress will change direction. A program created by the “father of modern conservation” to ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will receive about $37 million in 2026 from the federal Sport Fish Restoration and Wildlife Restoration programs. The funding is derived from excise taxes ...