Our Newsletter Archive
Conservation Incentives is a newsletter published by our Center for Conservation Incentives team to spotlight success stories and funding information for conservation programs.
March 2009
- Improving Water Quality and Dairy Production
- Conservation Resources
- Furthering Conservation, Avoiding Conflict in the Sagebrush
- Hawaii Launches Major New Conservation Program
January 2009
- Green Stimulus: Shovel-Ready Conservation Projects
- Incentives Can Aid Rare New England Rabbit
- New Conservation Tool Guidance to Help Western Landowners
- Conservation News and Resources
October 2008
- New Conservation Incentives for Private Forest Owners
- What's in the 2008 Farm Bill for Family Forest Owners?
- A Record-breaking Gift for Conservation
August 2008
- Mini-loan Program Helps Farmers Enroll in Conservation Practices
- USDA Resists Pressure to Gut CRP
- Conservation Briefs
- Wyoming Rangelands Offer Key Opportunity for Recovery of Declining Birds
June 2008
- CCI's Lake Erie Project Expands to Michigan Farms
- Incentives Pioneers: Early Success, Lasting Legacy
- CCI's Mexican Partner Photographs Rare Wild Cats
- 2008 Farm Bill Brings Opportunities, Disappointments
April 2008
- Emission Offsets: A Future Cash Crop for California Farmers
- A Novel Approach to Help Rescue a Rare Rabbit
- Conservation Briefs
February 2008
- Farmers in Conservation Program Fared Better in Ohio Floods
- Land Trust and Landowners Work Together to Improve Water Quality
- Landowners in 18 States Get Funding to Restore Wildlife Habitat
- Endangered Woodpeckers Make Gains on Conservation Lands
December 2007
- Innovative, Cost-effective Incentives for Farmers Can Help Save the Chesapeake Bay
- Ranchers and the River of Grass
- Texas Boy Scouts Befriend a Rare Toad
- Conservation Legislative Update
October 2007
- A New Frontier Mentality in the Texas Hill Country
- Cows, Tanks and Conservation: The Right Mix for Songbird Recovery
- Protected Harvest: Creating a Market Incentive to Pay Farmers for Conservation
- Conservation Legislative Update
June 2007
- Recovery Credits Trading: Making Wildlife Habitat Profitable for Landowners
- Rescuing Rattlers: A Successful State Program Restores Wildlife Habitat on Private Land
- EQIP: Notable Achievements But Unrealized Conservation Potential
- Conservation Legislative Update
April 2007
- CRP Directs Funding to Landowners for Restoring Wildlife Habitat
- Alameda Rancher and Wildlife-friendly Program Restores Ponds and Helps Rare Animals
- The Zimmers: Dairy Farmers, Innovators and Conservationists
- Conservation Legislative Update
February 2007
- A Watershed Approach to Lake Erie Water Quality Issues
- Michigan Landowners Team with State to Aid Rare Wetland Wildlife Habitat
- A Happy Marriage: Farm Bill Conservation Programs and Endangered Species Safe Harbor Agreements
- Texas Landowners Making New Homes for Rare Ocelots
December 2006
- Changes in Congress and for our Newsletter
- Kansas Cattle Rancher Becomes Steward of the Grass
- Helping More Ranchers Benefit from Patch Burn Grazing
- New Funding Available for Landowners to Restore Longleaf Pine
- Livestock and Poultry Producers Gain New Resource
- Legislation Proposed to Give Landowners Tax Incentives for Helping Endangered Species
Summer 2006
- Private Landowners Help a Rare Sunflower and Other North Carolina Plants and Animals
- At Quivira Vineyards, Rare Salmon Rank with Producing Award-Winning Wines
- Raising Cows and Water Quality in the Land of Cheese
- Reforming National Farm Policy to Benefit Farmers and the Environment
- Contribution Agreements Make Farm Bill Partnerships Go Farther
Fall 2005
- Creating a Conservation Community in Oregon's Willamette Valley
- Good Conservation Programs Are Specific to the Landowner's Situation
- One for the Money, Two for the H2O: Dairies Boost Profits and Conservation
- Ranchers and New Bank Help Prairie Dogs Find a Home on the Range
- In Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Goals Are Clean Water and Thriving Animal Agriculture
Summer 2005
- Making Music, Talking Trees: A Rock Star and Forest Owner Speaks Out
- Dairy Owners Find Innovation Is Key to Environmental and Economic Success
- Safe Harbor's First Decade: Helping Landowners Help Endangered Wildlife
- Safe Harbor's Next Decade: Improving It for Landowners
- Recommended Resources
February 2005
- The Farmer As Conservationist Is Key to Audubon California Program
- Funding Fix Restores Conservation Dollars for Landowners
- On EC Bar Ranch, Conservation Increases Profits
- Conservation Reserve Program at the Crossroads: What's Next?
- Utah and Other States Set Aside Funding for Rare Wildlife and Plants
November 2004
- Utah Group Uses WHIP to Restore Sagebrush Rangelands
- Forestry Expert Is the Gopher Tortoise's Best Friend
- The Gopher Tortoise: Keystone Species of an Imperiled Ecosystem
- Conservation Bank Offers Security to a Rare Tortoise
- Scioto River CREP to Benefit Ohio's Largest, Most Biologically Diverse Watershed
- Pennsylvania Project Aims to Improve Chesapeake Bay Watershed Quality
- Conservation Announcements
August 2004
- Rest Rotation Grazing System Benefits Land and Wildlife on Montana Ranch
- Ranchers Advance Recovery of Rare Hawaiian Bird
- The Nene: Vagrant Evolves Into State Bird and Conservation Success
- USDA Conservation Program Update
- Back From the Brink Campaign Spotlights Incentives Approaches
- House Slashes DOI Incentives Program Funding
- Related Resources
May 2004
- Bog Turtles Make New Friends: Landowners and Livestock
- Tina Bachmann: Landowner and Turtle Farmer
- Forest Landowner Funding Diverted and Cut
- New Conservation Security Program Has Great Potential but Faces Significant Challenges
- Special Project Farm Bill Funding Will Go to At-Risk North Carolina Species
- Budget Cuts Threaten USDA Conservation Programs
February 2004
- Ohio Family Makes Home for Rare Wetland Plant
- New Federal Incentive Program Will Aid Private Forest Owners and Rare Species
- Colorado Species Conservation Partnership Focuses on Landowner and Species Needs
- Environmental Quality Incentives Program: Leveraging Bill Dollars for Private Land Stewardship
- Improved EQIP Ranking Systems Can Benefit Both Landowners and Conservation Efforts
- Montana Landowners Use EQIP to Advance Conservation of Rare Wildlife
- Related Resources
November 2003
- Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic Inspires An Incentives-Based Conservation Partnership
- The Preacher and the Toad
- Environment, Income and Family Benefit on Organic Dairy Farm
- Diverse Working Group Strengthens Oregon's Incentives Law
- Proposed Regulation Changes Should Aid Landowner Conservation Projects
- Two New Safe Harbor Agreements Offer Help for Rare Frogs
- Related Resources
August 2003
- Partners in Restoration Furthers Conservation by Cutting Regulatory Red Tape
- Wisconsin Landowners Can Now Plant for Endangered Butterflies
- Interior Department Programs Offer Landowners Financial and Regulatory Incentives
- What Makes a Successful Landowner Incentive Progam Proposal?
- New Environmental Quality Incentives Program Rules Establish Conservation Priorities as FY2003 Funding Begins
- Related Resources
May 2003
Inside the premier issue of the center's quarterly newsletter: Texas gives wildlife a break, South Carolina Safe Harbor a success, and more.
Posted: 12-Aug-2008; Updated: 19-Mar-2009
