Conservation Matters: Focusing on water quality, land stewardship tools, a watershed protection plan & more

11 Aug

Conservation Matters: Focusing on water quality, land stewardship tools, a watershed protection plan & more

By Brittany Wegner Conservation Matters

 

 

Conservation Matters is published by the Texas Water Resources Institute and the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute. 
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A land stewardship education dispatch
We're building a community of practice around land stewardship from the wings that fly above to the water trickling through the soil. Check out this peek into the 22 mini-lessons you can dive into today. Read more.  
Texas water quality and septic systems
There are over 2.2 million septic systems in Texas, but these can cause water quality problems if they aren’t working right. Learn ways to find potential funding aid for repairing or replacing failing systems. Read more.
Landowner Loop: Tending the soil first
Instead of a Private Land Stewardship Lesson or publication to aid in conservation efforts, NRI is learning from landowners in their continuing series called "Landowner Loop." Read more.
EPA accepts Carancahua Bay Watershed Protection Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has accepted the Carancahua Bay Watershed Protection Plan published by TWRI. Read more.  
Forging Ahead
COVID may have changed our summer plans, but we're forging ahead with new ways to deliver quail education. This month, you can practice your plant identification skills with a new PLS Lesson, enjoy some online learning activities hosted by the Rolling Plains Bobwhite Brigade, and join us in congratulating Dr. Dale Rollins on achieving professor emeritus status! Read more.  
Healthy Lawns, Healthy Waters online workshops set for August
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program will host four residential rainwater harvesting and turf management trainings focused on watersheds throughout Texas in August. Read more.
TWRI publishes technical reports, newsletters & educational materials
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NRI's Dale Rollins awarded professor emeritus
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ICYMI: How can you help with water quality?
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txH2O highlight: How does water quality monitoring work?
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Events
Previously listed events may be canceled or postponed to comply with Texas A&M University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directives designed to protect public health.
Texas Groundwater Summit,
September 1-3, Online
 
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TWRI and NRI work together to foster and communicate research and educational outreach programs focused on water and natural resources science and management issues in Texas and beyond. TWRI and NRI are part of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University.

Conservation Matters publishes timely information about water and natural resources news and research at universities and organizations in Texas. If you have information for possible inclusion in Conservation Matters, please contact Kerry Halladay at kerry.halladay@ag.tamu.edu. All submissions may be edited for grammar and style.

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Brittany Wegner

As a program manager for partnerships for the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Brittany works with our partners to build strategies to grow the recognition and use of sound science, expanding conversations around co…

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