Agroforestry

It is also fair to say that the application 

of agroforestry in America is not yet 

what it could and should be. With this in 

mind, there are at least five signposts that 

demonstrate that USDA and its partners 

are making the case that agroforestry is a 

means to address key issues and demands on 

our Nation’s agricultural lands and forests. 

However, there are two primary barriers to 

the wide spread adoption of agroforestry in 

America. First is “agroforestry illiteracy” in 

the natural resource professions. And second, 

Agroforestry is a technology 

that has truly “come of age”

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Beginning to know how much

agroforestry is in America?

Get some know-how on

silvopasture management

Do you want to know how

to use the Farm Bill to

establish agroforestry

practices? 

is the lack of accounting for agroforestry 

land use in America. This issue of Inside 

Agroforestry highlights some of the existing 

efforts to overcome these barriers.

Five signposts that agroforestry has 

“come of age”

In USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s vision 

for America’s forests (delivered August 

2009, Seattle, WA) he called for a broad 

Inside

Inside

—North American Agroforestry: An Integrated 

Science and Practice, 2nd edition.

NOW is the TIMEfor

agroforestry!

see Signposts, Page 7
NAC Director’s Corner

A commentary on the status of agroforestry by Andy Mason, NAC Interim Director

2 Inside Agroforestry ] Volume 18, Issue 1

In December, 2009, I was appointed by the USDA Forest 

Service (FS) to serve as NAC’s Interim Director. I am both 

honored and pleased to have the opportunity to “take the 

reins” from Director Greg Ruark, who these past 11 years has 

provided outstanding leadership for agroforestry research & 

development and technology transfer. As some of you know, 

for the past five years, Greg had been serving a dual role as 

both NAC Director and as an Assistant Director (ADR) at the 

Southern Research Station. Greg will now concentrate full time 

on his ADR duties; however, I know he will remain a strong 

NAC cooperator and certainly an advocate for agroforestry.

Please allow me to introduce myself. I’ve served for over 

30 years with the FS in a wide range of positions, including 

Director of State and Private Forestry in Alaska; Director of 

the Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, a national 

unit located in Fort Collins, Colorado; and in a wide range of 

line, staff, and field positions on national forests in Colorado, 

Montana, and Washington State. I began my professional career 

as a forester with the Colorado State Forest Service in 1977.

My most recent assignment was a two-year detail to the 

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as 

their National Forester, stationed in Washington DC. My 

primary focus at NRCS was to lead and support a national 

joint forestry initiative among the NRCS, FS, State forestry 

agencies, and conservation districts, which was aimed at 

finding ways to improve our delivery of forestry-related 

assistance to private landowners. I also helped develop and 

coordinate NRCS’s national forestry policy, including forestryrelated provisions in the 2008 Farm Bill. 

As NRCS’s National Forester, I learned about agroforestry 

and NAC and, very importantly, saw agroforestry applied on 

the ground by natural resource professionals and landowners 

in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia. I really had 

my eyes opened about the science, practice, and potential for 

agroforestry in North America. I am now more than ever a 

“true believer” in both agroforestry and NAC’s mission—to 

develop and deliver technology on a broad suite of agroforestry 

practices to help landowners improve their economics and to 

optimize a wide range of public benefits and ecosystem services.

As NAC’s Interim Director, FS leadership has asked me to 

make my top priority the development of a National Strategic 

Framework for Agroforestry, which will identify USDA’s future 

emphasis areas in agroforestry research, development, and 

technology transfer. Over the past few months, I have been 

leading an Interagency Agroforestry Team (IAT), sponsored by 

and with team members representing the FS and NRCS, four 

other USDA agencies (Agricultural Research Service, National 

Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Office 

of Environmental Markets) and two key partners (National 

Association of State Foresters, National Association of 

Conservation Districts). 

The IAT will develop the Strategic Framework with input 

from a diverse group of stakeholders (representing universities/

extension, Tribes, conservation and landowner organizations, 

industry, and other federal and state agencies). Much of the 

stakeholder input was gained at an Agroforestry Roundtable 

Workshop, May 25–26, 2010, in Washington DC.

I believe that we truly have a significant opportunity to 

expand the application of agroforestry in the U.S. Later in 

this issue of Inside Agroforestry (IA) please read “Agroforestry 

Signposts”, where I explain why this is a unique moment in 

time for agroforestry. Also, in the next IA stayed tuned for 

some highlights from our meeting with stakeholders at the 

May 25–26, 2010 workshop.

I am fully committed to ensuring that NAC—and its many 

partners—will continue to develop the science and deliver 

the tools that natural resource professionals need to help 

landowners and communities plan and apply agroforestry 

practices. If we haven’t met yet, I look forward to meeting you 

very soon, hearing your ideas about agroforestry, and learning 

how NAC can help you.

Sincerely, 

Andy Mason

New Leadership at NAC
A not so uncommon question around the 

NAC is, “How many acres of agroforestry 

are in the U.S.?” Maybe not so surprising— 

because of their blended nature, agroforestry 

land uses are not picked up on national 

inventory systems. Neither are the urban and 

community forests, but that’s for another 

article and another time. Here are two 

examples of how some state forest agencies 

are attempting to account for the presence 

and value of agroforestry.

The Great Plains Tree & Forest 

Invasives Initiative

In the Great Plains states of North Dakota, 

South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas trees 

and forests are highly prized, partly because 

of their scarcity and partly because of their 

critically important roles for people in 

towns, agriculture, the environment, and 

wildlife. The question of, “How valuable are 

these Working Trees?” became much more 

urgent with the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). 

Even though in 2008 EAB had not been 

detected near the Great Plains, this insect’s 

reputation for near complete destruction 

of ash trees wherever it is found and its 

continued westward movement is of great 

concern for these states. The threat of EAB 

created questions like “How much will it 

cost to remove all the ash trees?”; What will 

be the impact on wildlife habitat without ash 

trees?”; “How many windbreaks will become 

nonfunctioning?”; What will the native 

woodlands and forests look like after EAB?”

To begin to address these and many other 

questions these four states worked together 

to create a proposal and apply for funding 

under the USDA Forest Service, State & 

Private Forestry Redesign program. So 

began a two-year cooperative effort called 

The Great Plains Tree & Forest Invasives 

Initiative. Although EAB was the primary 

impetus, the four state forestry agencies 

wanted to be prepared for any invasive pest 

that could threaten the tree resources. The 

initiative had five major components:

1.Comprehensive forest and tree resource 

assessment

 – Urban & community forests 

 – Rural forests (non-FIA) 

 – Agroforests/linear forests 

2. Education and outreach

3.Monitoring and detection

 – Citizen monitoring and detection 

 network

 – Campground education 

4.Marketing and utilization

5. State and regional planning 

Through this multi-state cooperative and 

working with the USDA Forest Service 

Northern Research Station Forest Inventory 

and Analysis staff (FIA), an inventory 

method was developed that is compatible 

with the national FIA system. In the first 

year alone an estimated 1.3 million acres 

of trees in windbreaks, riparian forests 

and buffers providing agroforestry benefits 

were inventoried that were previously 

unaccounted under existing inventory 

processes. Now these four states can begin to 

more intentionally manage their agroforestry 

resources, determine the value of existing 

agroforests, and make a case for future 

support of agroforestry for the benefit of 

their states’ economies and natural resources.

Assessment of Kansas Riparian Forests

A line from an old poem reads something 

like this, “In a land where fence posts are 

made of stone and fires are fueled by cow 

pies, the value of a tree should not be 

questioned.” That’s all well and good, but 

when the federal reservoirs are the source of 

municipal and industrial water for two-third 

of Kansas’ population and they are filling up 

with streambank sediment, you need more 

than a little prairie wisdom to say “trees are 

the answer”. Research in Kansas shows that 

riparian forests are more effective than other 

land cover at stabilizing streambanks during 

high water events and trapping sediments 

which otherwise would end up in reservoirs. 

The Kansas Forest Service along with 

numerous other partners decided to develop a 

process to inventory and classify by condition 

class the riparian forests in the state’s reservoir 

watersheds. The initial project began in 2009 

in the Delaware River watershed and was 

funded in part with a USDA Forest Service, 

State and Private Forestry Competitive 

Grant. The grant will make it possible to 

use GIS and on-the-ground forest inventory 

to assess the size and condition of riparian 

forests and identify areas where their 

protection, management and establishment 

can most benefit the reduction of sediment 

loads. The data will be used to develop 

a riparian forest classification system to 

guide policy and program implementation 

which can be applied to other watersheds. 

In addition, 10 sites demonstrating forestry 

BMPs will be established.

The inventory process will utilize 

LANDFIRE, (http://www.landfire.gov/) a 

GIS mapping tool that describes percentage 

of vegetation types for wildland fuel and 

fire regimes. The on the ground survey 

process is still being developed but will likely 

be similar to what was used for the Great 

Plains Initiative for inventorying windbreaks 

and riparian forests. Three riparian forest 

condition classes have been established: 1)

Riparian Area In Need of Protection/Properly 

Functioning, 2) Riparian Area in Need of 

Management/Functional at Risk, and 3) 

Riparian Area in Need of Establishment/

Nonfunctional. Each classification has a set 

of criteria. This project is in its early stages 

and you can contact the Bob Atchison, 

atchison@ksu.edu, at the Kansas Forest 

Service for more information. ]

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Accounting for agroforestry

Richard Straight

FS Lead Agroforester

Lincoln, NE

Riparian forest buffer. USDA National 

Agroforestry Center file photo.
The 2008 Farm Bill contains a 

forestry title and forestry and 

agroforestry provisions in other 

titles. The conservation title (Title II) 

modifies most programs to include 

forestry/agroforestry activities and 

directs the creation of infrastructure 

for environmental services markets 

(including carbon markets). Forestry 

practices and nonindustrial private 

forest lands are now accepted for the 

Conservation Stewardship (Subtitle 

D), Farm and Ranch Lands Protection 

(Subtitle E), Environmental Quality 

Incentives (Subtitle F) programs, and 

other conservation programs (Subtitle 

G). The energy title (Title IX) includes 

two provisions to expand the use of 

woody biomass in energy production.

Ever wonder how to bring those great 

conservation ideas into reality? Think 

agroforestry. That’s right—agroforestry. 

What better solution to your conservation 

issues than agroforestry—a unique land 

management approach that intentionally 

mixes woody plants, and crop and animal 

production systems to create environmental, 

economic and social benefits? And what 

better time, than now, to find funding 

for these practices? On June 18, 2008, 

Congress passed the Food, Conservation, 

and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill). 

In this bill are numerous opportunities 

for land users to get financial support for 

forestry and agroforestry uses through a 

wide range of USDA programs—some 

time-tested and proven, and some truly 

new. The federal funding programs were 

developed as incentives for good stewardship 

Agroforestry practices include field, farmstead, and livestock windbreaks to protect 

crops, control snow, or mitigate livestock odors; riparian forest buffers along streams 

and rivers; silvopasture systems with trees and forage growing together for dual income; 

alley cropping integrating annual crops with high-value trees and shrubs; forest farming 

where food, medicinal, and/or decorative products are grown under the protection of 

a managed forest canopy; and a variety of special applications, such as riparian forest 

buffers that are widened to include woody plants for bioenergy production.

and, to provide payment assistance for 

practices that when properly designed and 

managed, provide a means to treat pressing 

environmental issues. Although there are 

more funding programs than described 

in this newsletter, the programs covered 

represent federal sources with the greatest 

application to agroforestry. The chart on the 

next page helps summarize all the fantastic 

4 Inside Agroforestry ] Volume 18, Issue 1

Doug Wallace

NRCS Lead Agroforester

Lincoln, NE

The agroforestry program express is moving out!

options and opportunities that are currently 

available today. Selected program highlights:

Environmental Quality Incentives 

Program

The purpose of EQIP has been expanded 

to include forest management. Forest 

management and agroforestry practices 

were already funded by EQIP, but this new 

language places an increased emphasis on 

enrolling forestland.

Conservation Stewardship Program

Formerly known as the Conservation 

Security Program, CSP has been renamed 

and overhauled in order to be more userJump on board!

Field windbreak. Natural Resources 

Conservation Service file photo.

Short rotation woody crop. USDA National 

Agroforestry Center file photo.

Alley cropping. University of Missouri, Center 

for Agroforestry.
Use agroforestry practices and programs (see chart above) to:

Thin a dense stand of trees for ginseng production; (Multi-story Cropping –379);

Improve pollinator habitat on cropland; (Alley Cropping – 311);

Develop, protect, or enhance stream corridor wildlife habitat; (Riparian Forest Buffer –

391);

Plant trees into grasses to improve livestock performance; (Silvopasture Establishment

– 381);

Improve water quality; (Riparian Forest Buffer, Alley Cropping, Tree/Shrub

Establishment – 612)

Reduce soil erosion and energy usage on cropland and farmstead sites; (Windbreak/

Shelterbelt Establishment – 380).

Rehabilitate aging windbreaks; (Windbreak/Shelterbelt Renovation – 650)

Plant trees/shrubs for bioenergy use; (Special applications: Tree/Shrub Establishment)

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USDA Programs for Agroforestry*

 C = Cost share payment; I = Incentive payment; R = Rental payment; E = Easement payment; U = Land use payment

* Not all combinations or programs will be available in all States and Territories.

NRCS 

 EQIP

WHIP

CSP

WRP

FSA

CRP

CCRP

BCAP

Alley 

Cropping

C

C

C/I/R

Riparian Forest 

Buffer

C

C

U

C/E

C/I/R

Windbreak

C

C

U

C/I/R

Silvopasture

C

C

U

C/E

Multi-story 

Cropping

C

C

U

C/E

Special Applications

(Tree Planting)

C

C

U

C/E

C/I/R

C/I/R

C/I/R

friendly and offer new conservation benefits. 

The new CSP significantly expands the 

amount of forestland that will be enrolled in 

the program: producers may now enroll all 

of the eligible forestland under their control. 

Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program

WHIP is designed to develop and improve 

wildlife habitat on private land, including 

protecting, restoring, developing or 

enhancing habitat to benefit at-risk species. 

Only producers with agricultural land, 

Indian tribal land, or non-industrial private 

forestland can participate in WHIP.

Wetland Reserve Program

WRP is a land retirement program designed 

to establish and improve wetland areas. 

Restoration of wetlands includes the 

planting of trees and shrubs. In some cases, 

WRP land may even be grazed, cut for hay 

or harvested for wood products, providing

wetland values are maintained.

Biomass Crop Assistance Program

BCAP is a broad new program designed to 

encourage the establishment and production 

of new crops, including woody biomass, for 

conversion to bioenergy, and to assist with the 

collection, harvest, storage and transportation 

of these crops. Eligible crops and other 

biomass do not include those eligible 

for commodity payments under Title I, 

invasive or noxious plants, animal waste and 

byproducts, food and yard waste, or algae.

Conservation Reserve Program

CRP along with its continuous signup 

provisions (CCRP) offers a number 

of opportunities to apply forestry and 

agroforestry practices on eligible acres. CRP 

and CCRP is a land retirement that offers 

annual soil rental rate payments, cost share 

payments and annual maintenance payments, 

making it a very attractive federal program.

Where to go for more information on 

USDA federal programs:

(NRCS) http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/

(FSA) http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?a

rea=home&subject=copr&topic=landing ]

Multi-story cropping. USDA National 

Agroforestry Center file photo.
Silvopasture management is a new 

enough land use that it can be challenging to 

find practical information and people who 

can provide sound assistance. After all there 

isn’t a silvopasture association or professional 

journal for networking or to advance the 

research and innovations. Not surprising, 

each year more universities are engaging in 

research and more state extension agencies, 

conservation districts, and state forestry 

divisions are hosting field days to promote 

the economic and environmental benefits 

of silvopastures. By no means is the USDA 

National Agroforestry Center the only place 

to find good silvopasture information. In 

fact two of NAC’s most recent products 

that support silvopasture were done in 

conjunction with other partners.

It can be intimidating coming into a 

training session or public meeting with very 

little background on the subject, especially 

when you don’t think you know enough 

to even ask a relevant question. The newly 

released Online Silvopasture Course, www.

silvopasture.org, is intended to help the user 

develop a basic understanding of silvopasture 

management. The course was developed in 

partnership with Alabama A&M University 

with assistance from the Center for Invasive 

Species and Ecosystem Health—Bugwood 

Network at the University of Georgia. The 

course contains seven modules and can be 

completed over the course of several sessions 

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if desired. Each module consists of reading 

material, presentations, and a concluding 

quiz. It is expected that the course will 

soon be approved for continuing 

education credits from the 

Society of American 

Foresters.

Although the 

Online Course is 

geared toward 

southern pine 

silvopasture, 

many of the basic 

concepts and 

principles will 

apply across the 

country. The Course 

is a companion to 

NAC’s handbook, 

Silvopasture: Establishment 

and Management Principles 

for Pine Forests in the Southeastern 

United States. This handbook was also 

Help for silvopasture training

Richard Straight

FS Lead Agroforester

Lincoln, NE

Doug Wallace was recently hired as the NRCS Lead 

Agroforester at the National Agroforestry Center in 

Lincoln, Nebraska. Doug will be part of the USDA 

National Agroforestry Center (NAC) team that is a 

partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation 

Service (NRCS) and the Forest Service (FS). 

Doug has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science 

degrees in forestry from the University of Illinois. In 

1975 Doug began his conservation career as a field 

ecologist in western Illinois for the Illinois Natural Areas 

Inventory, a comprehensive systematic statewide natural 

area inventory. Upon completion of the inventory in 1978, 

Doug began work for NRCS and served in a number of 

locations throughout Illinois as a soil conservationist, 

district conservationist and area resource conservationist. 

From 1988 to 2010, Doug served as the NRCS State Staff 

Forester in Columbia, Missouri. While in Columbia, he 

also conducted post-graduate research on shade tolerance 

of warm season grasses for agroforestry applications at 

the University of Missouri. ]

New kid on the block

produced in partnership with 

Alabama A&M and can be 

downloaded in pdf version 

from the Course website or from 

the NAC website, http://www.

unl.edu/nac/morepublications/

silvopasturehandbook.pdf.

The other recently 

completed project is a DVD, 

Silvopasture: 30 Years of 

Research and Innovation, done 

in partnership with Dr. Becky 

Barlow, Auburn University 

Extension. The DVD features 

Florida silvopasturists George and Pat 

Owens and early USDA Forest Service 

researcher Dr. Cliff Lewis. The dvd is 38 

minutes of practical information 

on managing southern 

pine silvopasture. Dr. 

Lewis and the Owens 

share research and 

experiences in 

establishing and 

caring for trees, 

managing forage, 

and working with 

livestock in a 

Florida silvopasture 

system. A copy of 

the DVD can be 

requested by e-mail 

or fax at nhammond@

fs.fed.us or 402–437–5712. 

An online version of the dvd

is soon to be available at http://www.unl.

edu/nac/silvopasture.htm. ]

Silvopasture. USDA National Agroforestry Center file photo.
Last year NAC published the 

Conservation Buffer Guide, 

a synthesis of over 1,400 

research articles on designing 

conservation buffers complete 

with graphics and assistance 

in designing multiple function 

buffers. Since that time the 

publication has been recognized 

by the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, 

Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences; the U.S. Forest 

Service Southern Research Station; and the National Association 

of Government Communicators. Beginning in May 2010 resource 

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Conservation Buffer Guide update

Richard Straight

FS Lead Agroforester

Lincoln, NE

Gary Bentrup

Research Landscape Planner

Lincoln, NE

professionals can get copies of the Conservation Buffer Guide in 

Spanish as well as in English. Hard copies can be ordered from the 

NAC online publication orders page, http://www.unl.edu/nac/order.

htm, or download a pdf of the Spanish version at http://www.unl.

edu/nac/bufferguidelines/.

Later this year NAC will also release the Conservation Buffer 

Guide in Simplified Chinese. Keep an eye on the Buffer Guidelines 

web site for availability.

In the last year over 10,000 copies of the Conservation Buffer 

Guide have been requested and mailed out to natural resource 

professionals all over the U.S. and in many countries around the 

world. Part of the popularity of the Guide is due to its practical 

design and helpful images that covey the buffer design and planning 

guidelines. This practical nature of the Guide comes out of a research 

process that engaged the end user, natural resource professionals, 

from beginning to end. This cooperative process is at the heart of 

the next step for improving the Conservation Buffer Guide. NAC 

is working with the Leopold Center at Iowa State University to find 

out how resource professionals are using the Guide, what they would 

like to see added, what works and what doesn’t work, and what other 

tools or adaptation could make the Guide even more useful. ]

vision for forestry and close collaboration 

between the Forest Service and NRCS 

in adopting an “all-lands approach” that 

includes all public and private working 

lands. He stressed the need to operate at 

a “landscape-scale” to ensure clean and 

abundant water for communities, to 

address climate change, and to develop new 

markets for ecosystem services that increase 

rural wealth. Agroforestry is certainly 

an important means to accomplish the 

Secretary’s vision.

In his USDA Testimony to Congress 

on the House Climate Change Bill in 

December 2009, USDA Chief Economist 

Joseph Glauber addressed how farmers and 

ranchers could potentially gain through 

the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) offset 

program provided for in H.R. 2454. Citing 

EPA and other studies, he stated that the 

primary source of agricultural offsets would 

be increased carbon sequestration through 

afforestation of crop and pastureland. 

Agroforestry provides the benefits of 

afforestation, while supporting agriculture 

production, not replacing it.

A national Joint Forestry Initiative 

(JFT) with the FS, NRCS, the National 

Association of State Foresters (NASF) and 

the National Association of Conservation 

Districts (NACD) made a very significant 

commitment in early 2007 to work 

together to improve the delivery of forestry 

related conservation assistance to private 

landowners. The JFT action plan includes 

several agroforestry related actions.

The Know Your Farmer, Know Your 

Food (KYF2) initiative, which is being 

actively led by Deputy Secretary Kathleen

Merrigan, provides a forum to demonstrate 

how agroforestry supports local and regional 

food systems. NAC Interim Director Andy 

Mason serves on USDA’s KYF2 Task Force 

which strives to integrate and emphasize 

USDA programs and policies that:

	 •	Stimulate food- and agriculturally-based 

 community economic development; 

	 •	Foster new opportunities for farmers and 

 ranchers; 

	 •	Promote locally and regionally produced 

 and processed food; 

	 •	Cultivate healthy eating habits and 

 educated, empowered consumers; 

	 •	Expand access to affordable fresh and 

 local food; and

	 •	Demonstrate the connection between 

 food, agriculture, community and the 

 environment. 

The fifth signpost is the ongoing 

development of a National Strategic 

Framework for Agroforestry. On May 25–

26 a diverse group of invited stakeholders 

including landowner and conservation 

organizations, universities/extension, Tribes, 

state agencies, regional councils, USDA, 

and other federal agencies, met to discuss 

the future of agroforestry in the U.S.. The 

workshop was sponsored by the Interagency 

Agroforestry Forestry Team (IAT), which 

includes six USDA agencies, the NASF, and 

the NACD. In the next few months the IAT, 

led by NAC Interim Director Andy Mason, 

will develop the Strategic Framework after 

fully considering stakeholder input. The new 

strategy will identify USDA’s—including 

NAC’s—most important future emphasis 

areas for agroforestry research, development, 

and technology transfer, both nationally and 

in priority regions/ watersheds.

These five signposts certainly indicate that 

agroforestry is a technology that has come 

of age! ]

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www.unl.edu/nac

July 18–21, 2010

65th International Soil & Water 

Conservation Society (SWCS) Annual 

Conference. St. Louis, MO. http://www.

swcs.org/en/conferences/2010_annual_

conference/

August 3, 2010

Conservation In Action Tour 2010.

Williamsburg–Richmond, VA.

http://www.conservationinformation.

org/?action=article&id=68 

August 23–27, 2010

Watershed Management Conference: 

“Innovations in Watershed Management 

Under Land Use and Climate Change”

Madison, WI. http://content.asce.org/

conferences/watershedmanagement2010/

August 30–September 1, 2010

American Water Resources Association 

(AWRA) Summer Specialty Conference 

& Eighth Caribbean Island Water 

Resources Congress. Rio Grande, Puerto 

Rico. http://www.awra.org/meetings/

PR2010/

October 27–31, 2010 

Society Of American Foresters (SAF) 

National Conference, “Forests & People: 

A Watershed Event.” Albuquerque, NM.

http://www.safnet.org/natcon10/index.cfm

For more upcoming events, visit our

website calendar: www.unl.edu/nac/

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