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CAREERS GARDEN SOIL / SURVEY TREES & SHRUBS
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE RESIDUE (CROP) WATER / WETLANDS
EDUCATION GRASS SOIL EROSION WILDLIFE
URBAN CONSERVATION NOXIOUS WEEDS PONDS - DAMS - SPRINGS WOODLAND
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CAREERS with NRCS 

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	NRCS Challenging Careers in Soil Conservation
	The Earth Team Need You - Join Our Team
    

CONSERVATION COMPLIANCE/APPLICATION

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            Blending Buffers with Business
            Buffer Solutions for Pork Production
            Buffer Strips: Common Sense Conservation
            Conservation Choices - Your guide to 30 conservation and 
                environmental farming practices USDA/NRCS Salina, KS
            Conservation Catalog for the 1990's
            Conservation On Your Own
            Conservation Planning You and Your Land  PA# 1376
            Conservation Provisions - Benefits of the Conservation Provisions
            Contour Buffer Strips
            Contour Grass Buffer Strip System
            Cross Windtrap Strips
            CRP Continuous Sign-up for High Priority Practices
            CRP Fact Sheets
            CRP-TO-CROPS Conversion
            CRP What Are The Options?
            Cool Season Grass & Legume Seeding Date & Mgmt. 7/88 
            Determining CRP Eligibility POSTER
            Farming & Maintaining Terraces...Leaflet 570
            Farming Terraced Land...Leaflet 335
            Field Borders
            Filter Strips
            Grassed Waterway / Vegetative Filter System
            Grass Waterways in Soil Conservation
            Herbaceous Wind Barriers
            Management of Your CRP acres in Kansas
            National Conservation Buffer Initiative
            Riparian Buffers Work Economically and Environmentally
            Riparian Forest Buffers
            State Programs Available for Implementation of FSA Compliance Plans 
            The CRP in Kansas
            USDA's Natural Resources Programs
            Vegetativie Barriers
            What Conservation Compliance Means to You
            What Sodbuster Means to You
            What Swampbuster Means to You

	
   VIDEOS / SLIDES
            Conservation on Your Own Videos - USDA NRCS 
            Conservation Compliance (The Farming Ugly Solution)
            DowElanco "Increasing Yields Through Field Bindweed Management"
            Building your own terraces
            Lines on the land
            Straight Talk - About your Conservation Plan
            Tell it like it is
            Stay Eligible for USDA Programs

  
EDUCATION

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            Assistance Available from the SCS
            Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years--Ag I. B.# 99
            Early American Soil Conservationist--Misc. Pub. # 449
            Education is the Key to Conserve our Natural Resources
            Learning About Conservation Our Resources--USDA/SCS Salina
            Outdoor Classrooms on School Sites--PA #975
            Outdoor Classrooms, Getting Into (COMPLETE GUIDE)
            Soil & Water Conservation Activities for Scouts--PA# 978
            Soil and Water Conservation - Environmental Education in Action V
            Teaching Soil & Water Conservation - A Classroom & Field Guide

   VIDEOS / SLIDES
            Envirothon
            Lines on the Land 1991 ... USDA NRCS
            Down The Drain 1991 ... Children's Television Workshop
            Outdoor Classrooms (Video & Slides)
            Parnterships for Watersheds ... Conservation Technology Information Center


   DISPLAYS
	Outdoor Classrooms


ENVIRONMENTAL 

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            A Community Guide to Recycling Used Motor Oil
            Asbestos Awareness in Kansas
            Automotive Products
            Conservation Choices - Your guide to 30 conservation and 
                environmental farming practices--USDA/SCS Salina, KS
            Developing Criteria to Protect our Nation's Waters
            Environmental Justice Through the Eyes of the NRCS
            Hazardous Waste is Everybody's Problem
            Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program
            Household Hazardous Waste - What you Should and Shouldn't Do.
            KDHE - Fact Sheets
            Litter Control Commission
            Paint & Solvents
            Polluted - No Fishing
            Preventing Pollution Through Pesticide Management
            Regional Harazdous Waste Collection Program
            Using Household Products Wisely
            Using Pesticides Safely

  
GARDEN

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            Gardening on the Contour --H&G # 179
            Lawn Care - Insect & Weed Killers
            Lawn Care - Watering & Fertilizing
            Lawn Fertilizers and the Environment
            Lawn and Garden Chemicals: Use, Storage, Disposal
            Invite Birds to Your Home
            Mulches for Your Garden
            Safety of Lawn and Garden Products
            Steps for soil test

   
GENERAL

   BROCHURES
            Controlling Erosion on Construction Sites
            Kansas Resource Inventory..Guide to Land Treatment
            Manhattan Plant Material Center
            Preserve Prime Farmland
            Where Have the Farmlands Gone?


   VIDEOS / SLIDES
           Sustaining America's Agriculture
           Soil and Water Conservation Society
           This Land Gave Us Our Past, It Can Give Us Our Future ... USDA NRCS
           Take Pride In America (The Oak Ridge Boys)    

 
GRASS

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            Brome Grass Livestock Feeding Guide
            Contour Buffer Strips - FACT SHEET
            Cool Season Grass Seeding and Management
            Dairy Farmer Profitability Using Intensive Rotational Stocking
            Fire As A Management Tool
            Grass Makes its Own Food--AG I. B. #223
            Grass: The Stockman's Crop.
            Grazing Lands Enterprise Diversification
            Grazing Lands Technology Institute
            Livestock Stocking Guide For Bromegrass Pastures
            Livestock Stocking Guide For Native Grass Rangeland
            Native Grass Livestock Feeding Guide
            Prescribed Burning - A management Tool
            Prescribed Burning Safety
            Planning and Conducting Prescribed Burning
            Range Management Prescribed Burning 
            Range and Pastureland
            Pastureland
            Understanding Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value
            Warm Season Seeding and Management   (2 Handouts)


   VIDEOS / SLIDES
           CRP Conversion
           Improve Pasture for Better Grains

  
NOXIOUS WEEDS

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            Chemical Weed Control Guide
            Field Bindweed
            Musk Thistle
            Noxious Weeds in CRP Grass Stands
            Sericea Lespedeza

  
PONDS - DAMS - SPRINGS
	
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            Administering Kansas Water Laws ... DWR
            Basic Elements Of A Pond Dam
            Dam Safety - Who Is Resonsible
            For the Fun of it...and then Some
            Pond - Planning, Design, Construction--Ag.HB.# 590
            Producing Fish & Wildlife from Kansas Ponds
            Pond Sealing
            Spring Developments --USDA/SCS, Salina
            Spring Developments   
	
  
RESIDUE (CROP)
	
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            Conservation Tillage:  A Checklist for U.S. Farmers
            Conservation Tillage Concerns
            Conservation Tillage.  Does it Pay?
            Cultivators for Conservation Tillage
            Drills
            Estimating % of Residue cover using Line Transect
            Get Ready to Cover a lot of Ground
            Growing Small Grain Residue
            No-Till Weed Control
            Picture your Residue
            Residue Management - Corn
            Residue Management - Small Grain
            Residue Management - Sorghum
            Residue Management - Soybeans & Sunflowers
            Residue Management to Control Soil Erosion by Water
            Save Fuel ... Use Conservation Tillage
            The National Crop Residue Management Alliance
            Tillage Options for Conservation Farming --PA# 1416



   VIDEOS / SLIDES
           Roundup (Herbicide) No-Till
           Treflan & Sonalan in Minimum Tillage     
           Implementing No-Till (Midwest Edition)
           Managing crop residue
           Managing small grain residues

   
SOIL EROSION

   BROCHURES
            America's Soil and Water: Conditions and Trends
            Conserving Soil and Water for the Future--SCC
            Estimating Soil Moisture By Feel and Appearance
            How to Control a Gulley
            Save Soil Systematically - Resource Management Systems for Midwest Cropland  -- PA 1366
            Soil Erosion By Water--Ag. Inf. B. #513
            Soil Erosion By Wind--Ag. Inf. B. # 555
            Soil Quality Information Sheets (Several)

	   
   VIDEOS / SLIDES
            South Dade Soil and Water Daorganite
            60 Years of Erosion Control	

   
SOIL/ SURVEY

   BROCHURES
            Soil Surveys can Help You--PA# 1054
            State Soil of Kansas - Harney Silt Loam
            Soil Testing
            

   
TREES & SHRUBS

   BROCHURES
            Alley Cropping
            An Ill Wind Meets a Windbreak
            Conservation Trees for Your Farm, Family & Future
            Conservation Tree & Shrub Cultivars in the U.S.
            Drip Irrigation for Windbreak Planting
            How Windbreaks Work
            Shunga Trail Tree Identification A Self-Guided Tour
            Trees are the Answer…to America's Growing Environmental Concerns
            Trees for Clean Water
            Treessentials - Right Start Fertilizer Packets
            Treessentials - Supertube Treeshelters
            Treessentials - Vispore Tree Mat
            Windbreak / Shelterbelt
            Working Trees for Communities
            Working Trees for Livestock
            Working Trees for Wildlife
 


URBAN CONSERVATION

   BROCHURES
            Backyard Composting Program
            Controlling Urban Site Erosion
            Diversions
            Draining Wet Areas
            Establishing Lawns - Cool Season
            Establishing Lawns - Warm Season
            KACD - What Is It?
            Kansas Fact Sheets - Complete Sets of Each Practice
            MAACD - What Is It?
            RC&D - What Is It?
            Retaining Walls
            Riprap
            Rock  Chutes
            Seeding and Mulching
            Silt Fences
            Sodding
            Soil Erosion - Water
            Soils
            Straw Bale Sediment Trap
            SWCS - What Is It?
            Underground Drain Pipes
            Waterways and Lined Channels
           

WATER / WETLANDS

   BROCHURES
            America's Clean Water Act
            ABC's of Water Conservation
            Adopt a Drain
            Be A Clean Water Neighbor
            BMP's for Water Quality
            City Source
            Clean Water Act, Section 319
            Clean Water - A Bargain at Any Cost…Water Environmental Fed.
            Clean Water - Our Conservation Commitment PA #1475
            Conservation & the Water Cycle Ag I. B. #326
            Fact Sheets KDHE
            Focus on Facts about Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Refuse
            Groundwater - Why You Should Care
            How do we Treat our Wastewater?
            How to Identify Water Quality Problems in Your Favorite Lake, Stream and Ponds KDHE 
            How to Prevent Urban Water Pollution
            Is Your Drinking Water Safe?  
            Join us in a Partnership for Wetlands
            Kansas Water Facts NRCS Salina, KS
            Land Application of Biosolids
            Lead & Your Drinking Water
            Manage Natural Resources for Water Quality Improvement
            Nature's Way - How Wastewater Treatment Works for You 
            Nonpoint Source & Riparian Corridors in Kansas KDHE EPA
            NPS Pollution - You Are the Key to Cleanup Environmental Fed.
            NPS Pollution - What You Should Know
            Notes for Water Watchers
            Please Don't Poison our Water
            Plugging Abandoned Wells
            Pollution Checklist 
            Riparian Area Management in Kansas…KS Dept. of Wildlife & Parks
            Riparian Forest Buffer
            Safe Water
            Safe Water Checklist
            Safe Well Sites
            Scheduling Irrigation
            Stormdrain Stencil
            Stormwater Pollution
            Stormwater Utility
            The Recycler's Handbook
            The Water Cycle:  Nature's Recycling System
            The Wealth in Wetlands
            Topeka Water Watchers
            Using Nitrogen Credits
            Water - A Story of Hope
            Water Conservation at Home
            Water Pollution Control - City of Topeka 
            Water Watchers - Livestock Pollution Control Guidelines
            Water Watchers - NPS Pollution Fact Sheet
            Water Watchers - The Pollution Prevention Program: What's it all About?
            Water Watchers - Water Conservation Fact Sheet
            Wetland Conservation
            Wetlands & Agriculture
            Wetland & Riparian Best Management Practices for Kansas
            What is an S.P.A.? 


   VIDEOS / SLIDES
            Water Pollution....Where Does it Come From?
            The Wealth in Wetlands
            Pointless Pollution - America's Water Crisis
            Marking Storm Drains NO DUMPING - DRAINS TO RIVER

	
   DISPLAYS
	Non-Point Source Pollution


WILDLIFE

  BROCHURES
           A Wildlife Manager's Field Guide to the Farm Bill
           Backyard Bird Feeding
           Backyard Conservation Bringing Conservation From the Countryside to Your Backyard
           Going Wild with Soil & Water Conservation
           Homes for Birds
           Invite Birds to Your Home
           Kansas Trails
           Managing Your CRP for Wildlife
           More Wildlife Through Soil & Water Conservation…Ag I. B. #175
           Partners for Wildlife
           Posters:  National Wildlife Weeks 1995-
           Rangeland Management and Wildlife
           Signs of Good Hunting & Fishing…PA #1012
           So You'd Like to Adopt a Wild Horse or Burro
           U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
           Wildlife Management on Croplands
           Woodland Management for Wildlife

  
WOODLAND

   BROCHURES
            Trees, Soils, People - An Environmental Quality Aid
            Your Woodland...Your Conservation Program--PA# 1084

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