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The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) is a professional and scientific membership society. The mission of the organization is to foster the science and art of natural resource management for sustainability. The society was formed in 1945 and changed its name from the Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) to the Soil and Water Conservation Society in 1987. The SWCS publishes the bimonthly peer-reviewed Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

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Soil and Water Conservation Society

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The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) is a professional and scientific membership society. The mission of the organization is to foster the science...

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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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journal is published by the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Wisconsin-Madison, University of. "Soil conservation stories in state ag media outlets...

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Soil erosion

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Soil Erosion Data in the European Soil Portal USDA National Soil Erosion Laboratory The Soil and Water Conservation Society Features of Stream Erosion...

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Water conservation

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Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. It...

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Environmental monitoring

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Monitoring soil erosion's impact on crop productivity". In Lai, R. (ed.). Soil Erosion Research Methods. Soil and Water Conservation Society and St. Lucie...

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Conservation Effects Assessment Project

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Capitol Hill on important conservation and management policies. Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization...

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Erosion

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processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to...

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Soil food web

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Primer Photo Gallery". Natural Resources Conservation Service - Soils. Soil and Water Conservation Society, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Retrieved...

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Soil biology

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Principles and Applications of Soil Microbiology, Prentice Hall Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2000, Soil Biology Primer. Tate, 2000, Soil Microbiology...

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Biodynamic agriculture

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Madden, Robert H. Miller and Gar House (Eds.). Sustainable Agricultural Systems. Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society. pp. 3–19. ISBN 0-935734-21-X...

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Soil science

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preserve soil and arable land in a world with a growing population, possible future water crisis, increasing per capita food consumption, and land degradation...

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Universal Soil Loss Equation

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water resource conservation and nonpoint source pollution assessments, including: sediment load assessment and inventory, conservation planning and design...

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Protected area

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Biodiversity Conservation Investments". PLOS Biology. 4 (4): e105. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040105. PMC 1435411. PMID 16602825. Petersen, Anders Højgård;...

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Nutrient cycle

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and Conservation. Springer. pp. 227–270. ISBN 9781402029424. Soil and Water Conservation Society Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Dianna...

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Chironomidae

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Chironomidae and Water Beetles of Florida Chironomidae Research Group, University of Minnesota Family Chironomidae at Soil and Water Conservation Society of Metro...

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Conservation agriculture

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in water conservation due to the layer of organic matter and ground cover to help eliminate transportation and access runoff. Improvement of soil structure...

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Hugh Hammond Bennett

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Soil Conservation Society of America (now the Soil and Water Conservation Society). When the Soil Erosion Service was established as part of the United...

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Soil Science Society of America

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Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), is the largest soil-specific society in the United States. It was formed in 1936 from the merger of the Soils...

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Tillage erosion

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the 52nd Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Toronto, Canada. 24–25 July, 1997.1". Soil and Tillage Research. 51 (3): 331–339...

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Soil pH

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solution. In soils, it is measured in a slurry of soil mixed with water (or a salt solution, such as 0.01 M CaCl 2), and normally falls between 3 and 10, with...

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Soil contamination

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contamination of water supplies within and underlying the soil. Mapping of contaminated soil sites and the resulting clean ups are time-consuming and expensive...

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Soil texture

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Soil texture is a classification instrument used both in the field and laboratory to determine soil classes based on their physical texture. Soil texture...

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Agronomy

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effects of [erosion] by wind and water. For example, a technique known as contour plowing may be used to prevent soil erosion and conserve rainfall. Researchers...

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Rajiv Khosla

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Society of Precision Agriculture, a selected Jefferson Science Fellow, and a Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, the American Society of...

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Soil in the United States

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The US soil taxonomic hierarchy includes orders, suborders, great groups, subgroups, families and series, with each series representing a unique kind of...

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Soil

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phase of minerals and organic matter (the soil matrix), as well as a porous phase that holds gases (the soil atmosphere) and water (the soil solution). Accordingly...

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Surface runoff

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infiltrate in the soil. This can occur when the soil is saturated by water to its full capacity, and the rain arrives more quickly than the soil can absorb it...

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