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Since its inception in 2004, CIG has funded hundreds of projects, boosting natural resource conservation while helping producers improve the health of their operations for the future. Use this tool to search for CIG projects based on any of the criteria listed below.
CIG projects from 2004-2009 may be missing information in the following categories: Resource Concern (specific), Conservation Practice, Production/Use.
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Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center
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MN
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2016
The purpose of this project is to promote continued improvement in agricultural productivity, soil health, and water quality, Discovery Farms Programs of WI and MN are partnering to 1) provide the tools for farmers and farm advisors to diagnose and treat fields with high nutrient losses through tile drains and 2) understand the link between tile drainage and soil health and 3) increase access to conservation practices related to monitoring currently offered by NRCS. At least 24 farmers in each state will have the opportunity to utilize data from their personal fields to understand the mechanisms and timing of nutrient cycling. Participants will understand and implement management changes that reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loss through agricultural tile drainage and increase soil health.
The Great Legacy Sediment Restoration Project, LLC
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PA
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2016
The dense concentration of historic mill dams and valley bottom impairments throughout the Eastern United States has had a dramatic and largely unrecognized impact on the original ecology and functions of valley bottom ecosystems. While breached, abandoned and removed dams have been steadily releasing millions of pounds of previously stored nutrients and sediments stored in millpond reservoirs, these dams and infilled ponds buried thousands of acres of bottom land Habitat that originally served as functioning wetlands (GI). The applicant, in partnership with Lancaster Farmland Trust, and researchers at Franklin and Marshall College believe that efficient, cost-effective, privately funded restoration techniques can be developed for the unique conditions of the Eastern United States. The team intends to develop metrics that will allow projects to be successfully implemented by land owners, agricultural producers, municipalities and states. The restoration experiment at Big Spring Run (BSR) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – which involves the removal of this “legacy sediment” and the rehabilitation of the buried wetland ecosystem - has demonstrated that this approach has significant potential for improving surface and ground water quality while reestablishing wetland Habitat and functions. This emerging Best Management Practice (BMP) has proven to quickly establish efficient and low maintenance green infrastructure and provides a verifiable non-point source alternative to traditional infrastructure. In addition, previously underutilized or restricted acreage can be transformed to create new business, employment and income opportunities for landowners and investors. Two significant positive consequences from this project will be: (1) to more efficiently target surface and ground water BMPs; and (2) to and maximize the economic value of the commodity produced by this restoration technique.
Louisiana State University
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LA
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2016
Louisiana State University proposes to develop and improve fallow season cover crop (winter and summer) strategies as a component of overall conservation programs for soybean, field corn, cotton, and sugarcane. The primary goal is to increase the adoption of soil health management practices by demonstrating the effectiveness and efficiency of Cover Crops to reduce sediment loss and N and P contaminants at the farm and watershed scale for agricultural production systems in the state of Louisiana and the Mid-South region.
American Forest Foundation
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DC
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2016
American Forest Foundation, World Resources Institute and Blue Forest Conservation propose to develop a pay-for-success approach called the Forest Resilience Bond (FRB), which would catalyze private investment to help pay for forest restoration activities and reduce wildfire risk in the American West. While this approach is also being explored for implementation on public lands, this project will pilot the FRB approach on private forest lands.
National Corn Growers Association| Inc
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MO
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2016
The National Corn Growers Association and partners propose to develop a greenhouse gas insetting framework that can serve as a model for corporations and other entities to drive conservation adoption and achieve greenhouse gas reductions and water quality co-benefits. By providing businesses with a quantifiable method to reduce their carbon footprint by increasing on-the-ground conservation practices, the project will advance understanding of how to incentivize and achieve large scale greenhouse gas mitigation actions in North American
Prairie Rivers of Iowa Resource Conservation and Development
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IA
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2016
Prairie Rivers of Iowa Resource Conservation and Development (PRI) will develop an innovative framework that incorporates the efficient use of local public input and guidance through the use of a Watershed Management Authority with advanced conservation planning tools to meet larger Iowa water quality goals. This project will support the research and expansion of the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework, a land use planning tool that optimizes the placement of conservation practices at the watershed-level.
University of Wisconsin System
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WI
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2016
The University of Wisconsin proposes to integrate and expand on a proven approach, partnering with the insurance industry to provide a significant market-based financial incentive for professional manure applicators to improve NMP implementation with the implementation of a 3rd party verification of compliance. Negotiated financial incentives for applicators meeting program requirements include 14%-38% reductions in business liability and nutrient/pathogen pollution liability insurance premiums for completing project requirements. Implementation of conservation will be further enhanced by the creation of three livestock species based Advanced 590 NMP Scenarios that NRCS can add to the states EQIP project list to provide documentation of NMP implementation through training, technology, market-based incentives and 3rd party verification.
The Nature Conservancy
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VA
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2016
The Nature Conservancy proposes to develop impact investment blueprints for Gulf of Mexico restoration that outline how public funding can be used to attract private impact investment funds to conservation, greatly expanding the impact of various Deepwater Horizon settlement funds. The blueprints will be combined with a pipeline of specific deal opportunities to provide place-based examples of how private investment can leverage settlement funds.
Tennessee State University
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TN
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2016
Tennessee State University proposes to demonstrate conservation best management practices (BMP) and protect the natural resources from the adverse environmental impacts in the container plant nursery industry by enhancing the current Southern Nursery Industry “Guide for BMPs” and while offering salient modifications to NRCS Conservation Practice Standards that specifically address the resources concerns of the industry. By using the nine steps of conservation planning this project will demonstrate BMPs on nursery producer’s land and land grant university experiment stations to promote the use of conservation practices. A cadre of extension and technicians will be trained to carry out the planning and implementation of these BMPs and evaluate the benefits derived. Observations during this period can then be used to develop modifications and new techniques to existing management guides, and eventually to NRCS conservation practice standards.
Encourage Capital
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NY
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2016
Leveraging the experience and conservation efforts of other CIG greenhouse gas project developers, Encourage Capital proposes to establish a Working Lands Investment Fund (WLIF) to stimulate investment in conservation practices through the purchase of carbon credits generated by producers. A guaranteed purchase agreement driven by private investment will set up the infrastructure to purchase at least 100,000 tons of working land carbon credits and ensure that landowners are compensated for implementing conservation measures.