Water Quality in the Natural Resources Conservation Service: An Historical Overview
| Autor: | Douglas J. Lawrence, Peter F. Smith, Patricia J. Lawrence, Douglas Helms |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management complex mixtures Natural resource Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Service (economics) Erosion Environmental science Resource management Water quality Natural resource management Soil conservation business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Agricultural History. 76:289-307 |
| ISSN: | 1533-8290 0002-1482 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/00021482-76.2.289 |
| Popis: | Water-quality considerations are, and historically have been, integral to soil conservation, not separate from it. In establishing the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Congress directed the new organization to carry out a continuing program of soil and water conservation.1 Conservation methods and practices usually provide benefits to multiple resources, such as soil, water, plants, and animals. During the early years of SCS, the concern associated with the off-site effects of erosion focused more on the sediments them? |
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