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Featured Conservation Articles

Conservation: A Win-Win For All

Featured Conservation
Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Steve & Lori Bohn, owners of the Fallon Mustang Ranch near Pullman, WA, raise horses on their Palouse Hills acreage.  For the past few years, the Bohn's and Palouse Conservation District (PCD) have worked together on several projects to enhance the ranch's operation while protecting water quality in the stream. 

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Partnering for Better Irrigation Systems

Featured Conservation
Monday, 29 October 2007

For centuries, American farmers have irrigated their crops by moving water through ditches.  This low-tech method worked well when populations were sparse and demands for water were few. 

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Where Does Your Rainwater Go?

Featured Conservation
Monday, 29 October 2007

All that falling rain in Washington State has to go somewhere.  Unfortunately, too often it runs off of driveways and streets into stormdrains, and then into nearby streams and bays, eroding and polluting fish habitat in the process.  

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Flying logs become salmon shelters

Featured Conservation
Monday, 29 October 2007

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...log?  Yes, flying logs could be seen in the skies over Kitsap County last summer, all part of a project to improve habitat for salmon in local streams. 

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