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Texas Highlights

Last Modified: 01/18/2008

December 2007

  • East Texas Plant Materials Center Advisory Board Meeting


  • NRCS Dam Rehabilitation Projects Support north Dallas Community Infrastructure


  • 2007 Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show - NRCS State Conservationist Speaks at the Texas Commodity Symposium


  • NRCS Assists in Collegiate Soils Contest


  • Engineers Attend Professional Engineering Society Meeting


  • William “Will” T. Pinson Receives Young Engineer of the Year


  • Students Receive First Hand Agricultural Experience


  • District Sponsors Seed Ball Event


  • Texas Soil Scientist Wins National Achievement Award


    • November 2007

  • District Wildlife Contest Held at East Texas PMC

  • Treating Nature Deficit Disorder


  • NRCS Employee Recognized for Work at Blackland Research Center


  • Fairgrounds Transformed into Outdoor Classroom


  • Brush Management Workshop, West Travis County


  • Mills County SWCD Hosts Agriculture and Conservation Field Day

  • TSSRM Recognizes NRCS Employees and Partners on the Land

  • Nothing Plain about the Plains

  • 23rd Annual Landowners of Texas Conference

  • Texas Partnerships Win Two Gulf Guardian Awards

    • October 2007

  • Special Recognition for Rangeland Management


  • Fourth Graders “WORM” Their Way Around the Soil


  • NRCS Team Assesses Wetlands Functions


  • NRCS Recruits at Texas A&M University Career Fair


  • Fifth Graders Learn About the Outdoors - Naturally


  • Harvesting Water in Drought-Prone West Texas


  • A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land - Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads


  • Gillespie County Landowners Attend Fall Field Day


  • Multi-agency Training Covers Functions of Wetlands


  • NRCS Engineering Training for Success


  • National Watershed Coalition Fall Conference Focuses on Operation and Maintenance Topics


  • Career Fair at Prairie View A&M University

    September 2007

  • Mason County Offers Help for Livestock Managers


  • NRCS Celebrates Texas Department of Agriculture Centennial


  • NRCS at Food & Fiber Day in Abilene

  • Career Fair Takes on Outdoor Classroom Ranch Style


  • Passion for the Land


  • Odessa Teachers Learning the Land


  • AIANEA Conference Trains Members

  • Creating a Lasting Legacy of Land and Livestock on the Railway Ranch


  • Ranching in the 21st Century


    • August 2007

  • Nature Conservancy, landowners work to save endangered bird


  • Endangered Attwater's prairie chicken gets a boost in Goliad County


  • Texas NRCS Employees Attend NOPHNRCSE Training Conference


  • Lange Tree ECO Center - Summer Conservation Workshop


  • Using GIS to Help Manage Natural Resources


  • Teachers Get Lessons in Natural Resource Conservation


  • Ranchers Participate in Deer Study Group


  • It Just Comes Naturally


  • Liberty County Conservation Hosts Tour for Out-of-State Visitors


  • Clinic Offers Information on Managing Habitat with Stocker Cattle

    • July 2007

  • Managing Small Species in a Big Way


  • 14th Annual Clover Forage Field Day


  • 2007 Annual Agriculture and Forestry Appreciation Banquet


  • Wetland Training for NRCS Zone 4 Staff


  • Bastrop County SWCD Hosts Pasture and Range Field Day


  • Forestry Field Day Highlights Prescribed Burning

    • June 2007

  • Annual Farm Pond Field Day


  • Wood’s Ranch: A Success Story of Programs and Partnerships


  • Gillespie County Landowners Receive Rain & Educational Information


  • Elm Fork Multipurpose Site Dedication Ceremony


  • 77 Ranch Receives the 2007 Leopold Conservation Award in Texas


  • 2007 Johnson County SWCD Annual Awards


  • Upper Llanos SWCD Celebrates 60 Years on the Land


  • Providing a Safe, Clean Environment


  • Household Hazardous Waste Event Collects over 9,500 Pounds of Materials


  • Texas NRCS Employee Receives National Award


  • Young County Wheat and Conservation Tillage Field Day


    • May 2007

  • WAY—out in Cottle County -  State Wildlife and Recreation Management Career Development Event


  • Old Bricks Provide for New Beginning


  • Spotlight on Conservation: Eastland-Stephens County Range Field Day


  • Annual Austin Water Education Festival 2007


  • Eagle Scout Project Brings Conservation Education to East Texas


  • Field Day Gives Students Hands-on Experience


  • Texas Teams Sweep Regional Woodland Clinic


  • Second Annual Sustainable Land Management Workshop


  • Junction/Mason Farm Safety Day


  • The Art of Pond Management


  • 2007 Central Texas Earth Day Delivers Environmental Fun and Education


  • 2007 Texas State Envirothon


  • Soil Assessment in the Classroom


  • Sandhills SWCD #241 Annual Ninth Grade Field Day a Success


  • The Value of Wind


  • Brush Shearing – 4-Wheeler Style


  • First Native Seed Released for South Texas


  • Group Helps Reseed Area


    • April 2007

  • Students Get Conservation Education at Grayson County Ag Day


  • Brush Management Field Day a Success


  • Conservation District Recognizes Years of Service


  • Tackling Wetland Issues in East Texas


  • Flood Control Structures Reduce Flood Damage During Ellis County Storms


  • Tradition in Land and Range Judging in the Panhandle and South Plains Regions


  • Riding for a Cause


  • Second Annual 2007 Women of the Land Workshop


  • Careers in Conservation


  • Area Conservation Leaders Recognized

    • March 2007

  • Limited Resource Producers Outreach Meeting held in Hemphill


  • Team Effort Sets the Pace for Prescribed Burn Training


  • Chester ISD Receives Donated Computers


  • NRCS Addresses Conservation Programs at 2007 Texoma Farm and Ranch Show


  • Prairie View A&M University Spring Career Day

  • 2007 Texas Farm Ranch Wildlife Expo Reaches Out to Land Owners and Managers

  • Together We Achieve More

    • February 2007

  • Catching Raindrops - Holistic Resource Management Conference in Kerrville

  • Rehabilitation of Flood Control Structure Martinez Dam No. 4 Completed

  • Communicating Conservation through Partnerships

    • January 2007

  • 10th Annual National Cotton and Rice Conference


  • Ranchers get on the stick - Lower Colorado River Authority, By LCRA's Web editor, Charles Boisseau
     
  • Computers Donated to the Gabriel Tafolla Charter School

  • Strong Texas Attendance at Third National Conference on Grazing Lands

  • Highlights from the Texas Chapter of the NOPBNRCSE State Meeting, November, 2006


  • Thanks Earth Team Volunteers


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