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The USDA Southwest (SW) Climate Hub was created in February 2014 to develop risk adaptation and mitigation strategies for coping with climate change effects on agricultural productivity. There are seven regional hubs across the country with three subsidiary hubs. The SW Climate Hub Region is made up of six states: New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California and Hawaii (plus the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands).

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The National Wind Erosion Research Network was established in 2014 as a collaborative effort led by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Long Term Agro-ecological Research (LTAR) network and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

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This map is based on monitoring data gathered at 1450 sites by the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM) of Mongolia. Data are from 2017.

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**Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR)**Part of a network effort to develop innovative approaches to sustain agricultural productivity while reducing environmental impacts
- *Raramuri Criollo*  cattle 
- Research to improve  grassland restoration  in the Southwest
- Big data approaches

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**Ecological Site Description program (ESD)**Collaboration with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide science-based information for conserving and managing different kinds of land
- New database to improve quality, accessibility, and utility of  *ESD information*  nationwide

**Mission:**

The mission of the Range Management Research Unit is to produce new knowledge of ecosystem processes and new technologies necessary for sustainable agriculture in dryland agroecosystems, particularly arid and semiarid rangelands. Our unit links long-term, site-based research on natural resource management, innovative livestock production systems, and ecosystem restoration with national and global research on land monitoring and evaluation, analysis, and decision support tools. Our products support management of hundreds of millions of acres of U.S. rangelands, pasturelands, and croplands. Collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the Department of Interior, other USDA agencies, non-government organizations, producer groups, and many universities augment the in-house research program. International agreements extend the impact of our research to vulnerable drylands worldwide and enable discoveries that benefit U.S agriculture.

For more detail see our webpage: https://jornada.nmsu.edu/

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                                        Aney, Angus                                            *- Skye*
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                                        Bestelmeyer, Brandon                                    
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Plains AreaBrandon.Bestelmeyer@usda.gov