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Dust Mitigation Handbook

Dust emission from cropland and rangeland is problematic in many areas, particularly where dry conditions and high wind velocities exist. Producers and specialists need a resource with in-depth solutions to specific dust and wind erosion problems. For a changing future, where uncertain climate and water supply conditions may prompt farmers to fallow increasing acreage of once-actively planted cropland, the Dust Mitigation Handbook comes as a timely resource.
Burning undergrowth in ponderosa pine forest
FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment Tool
FireCLIME VA is a tool designed to assess ecosystem vulnerability to the effects of fire and climate regime change. It also facilitates the comparison of different ecosystem management strategies under various climate scenarios for reducing the undesirable impacts of climate on wildfire regimes and of wildfire on natural ecosystems
Introducing the Southwest Agroforestry Action Network
A brief introduction to the Southwest Agroforestry Action Network
Ranchers tour drought impacts in La Plata County CO July 2019
One thing is certain, drought will return
The SW Climate Hub received funds to support economic impact assessments of the brutal 2018 drought, and the Hub is working with a team including the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah) and land grant universities to document economic impacts.

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NMSU Climate Change Education Series - Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan

Dr. Gary Nabhan of the University of Arizona spoke at New Mexico State University’s Climate Change Education Series. His discussion, Redesigning desert agriculture for climate change: biomimicry, nurse plant ecology & succulent plants, addressed how…

Diné Women in Agriculture and the Importance of Our Water

The importance of water to the Diné is explained by Leiloni Begaye: "We, as Indigenous communities are connected to all living entities and that includes our to’ (water). Water is the sustenance of everything that lives around us, and not only…

Community Forest Adaptation Training

Participants at the Durango Community Forest Adaptation Training found that given projected future climate conditions, business-as-usual management practices are inconsistent with existing Community Forest Management Plan objectives. Eight "next steps…

FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment Tool

FireCLIME VA is a tool designed to assess ecosystem vulnerability to the effects of fire and climate regime change. It also facilitates the comparison of different ecosystem management strategies under various climate scenarios for reducing the undesirable…

Precision Ranching in the SW

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