Meeting announcement for 1:15 PM 2020-09-03 and PNRCD-PCCE-Teleconference-Agenda 2
USDA Video Series Teaches Popular Conservation Practices
USDA-NRCS Announces New Video Series Featuring Popular Conservation Practices for Farms and Ranches
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDANRCS/bulletins/298b144
Did you receive an usolicited packet of seeds in the mail?
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Photos: Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Do not plant seeds of unknown origin.
DOUGLAS A. DUCEY
Governor
MARK W. KILLIAN
Director
Arizona Department of Agriculture
1688 W. Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85007
(602) 542-4293 FAX (602) 542-4290
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE DATE: July 27, 2020
MEDIA CONTACT: Rob Smook< mailto: rsmook@azda.gov
Legislative Liaison, Public Information Officer & Tribal Liaison (602)542-3032
Unsolicited Seeds from China
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is aware that people across the county have received unsolicited packages of seed from China in recent days including many in Arizona.
APHIS is working closely with the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection and State departments of agriculture including the Arizona Department of Agriculture to prevent the unlawful entry of prohibited seeds and protect U.S. agriculture from invasive pests and noxious weeds.
Please do not discard the unsolicited package of seeds received in the mail. Anyone in Arizona who receives an unsolicited package of seeds from China should immediately send or drop off the package to one of the following locations:
Arizona Department of Agriculture
ATTN: PLANT SERVICES DIVISION
1688 W. Adams
Phoenix, AZ 85007
(P) 602-542-0992
(F) 602-542-1004
Tucson Operations
Arizona Department of Agriculture
Plant Services Division
400 W Congress Ste. 124
Tucson, Az. 85701
(P) 520-628-6314
(F) 520-628-6961
Yuma Operations
Arizona Department of Agriculture
Plant Services Division
1931 S. Arizona Avenue Suite 4
Yuma, AZ 85364
(P) 928-341-1758
(F) 928-341-1750
ICYMI- 2020 Climate and Drought Outlook for Beef Producers Webinar
Many thanks to the University of Arizona Extension Office for producing the webinar for the Santa Cruz NRCD, and a hat tip to Stephen Williams for passing along this handy followup information and link to the recorded webinar.
Thank you for attending 2020 Climate and Drought Outlook for Beef Producers Webinar. We hope you enjoyed our event.
A recording of the webinar and a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation are available at https://extension.arizona.edu/webinars-arizona-beef-producers
Please submit your questions or comments to: awright134@email.arizona.edu.
Here are links to the resources mentioned in the webinar:
– 2 page PDF with lots of links to drought resources https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/DroughtTools.pdf
– Rainfall Index tracker – https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/RI/RainfallIndexMaps.html
– Monsoon precipitation mapping – https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/SWMonsoonMaps/current/swus_monsoon.html
– Monsoon station tracker – https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/monsoon/monsoon_summaries.html
– Precipitation Logbook Generator – https://uaclimateextension.shinyapps.io/precipChart/
– Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI, someone asked about drought indices with wind…) https://psl.noaa.gov/eddi/
– Couple of bulletins…
o https://extension.arizona.edu/pubs/rain-gauges-range-management-precipitation-monitoring-best-practices-guide
o https://extension.arizona.edu/pubs/do-it-yourself-construction-guide-rugged-accumulation-precipitation-gauge-remote-monitoring
o https://extension.arizona.edu/pubs/arizona-north-american-monsoon-system
Also, don’t forget that your feedback is valuable to us, please take a few minutes to fill out the evaluation form, which you can find here:
https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_byE9i1FTTWYmbUF
This evaluation should only take 3-5 minutes to complete.
Thank you!
Drought Assistance for Livestock Producers Q & A with Scott Reed
NRCS Conservation District Stakeholder Session webinar and feedback form
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March 27, 2018 meeting announcement
Pima Natural Resource Conservation District
NRCS Plant Materials Center
3241 N. Romero Road
Tucson, AZ 85705
March 24, 2018
NOTICE OF COMBINED PUBLIC MEETING
PIMA NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT (PIMA NRCD) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
And
Pima Center for Conservation Education Board of Directors
Pursuant to A.R.S. § 38-431.02, notice is hereby given to the members of the Pima NRCD Board of Supervisors and to the general public that the Pima NRCD Board of Supervisors/PCCE Board of Directors will hold a meeting open to the public.
DATE: Tuesday March 27, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Arizona 85705
AGENDA
I. 12:30 PM Reception
II. 1:00 PM Call to order
III. Pledge of Allegiance
IV. Introductions
V. Educational Presentation by Mary Nichols regarding erosion studies in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Mary presents a preliminary inventory of legacy surface-water runoff and erosion-control structures in a semiarid rangeland watershed in southern Arizona.
VI. Short break
VII. Approval of the minutes of February 27, 2018 meeting
VIII. Treasury
a. Financial Report
i. Income/expense statements
ii. Balance statements
b. Approval of Bills
i. Becky Hightower, from State funds
ii. Publishing expenses for election notices $88.29
iii. AACD 2018 Dues $1,200.00
iv. Meeting expenses for 3/27/18
IX. Action Items
X. Big cat resolution
XI. Final Approval & signatures, Long Range Plan
XII. Reports:
a. Program Administrator
i. Newsletter
ii. Other
b. Supervisors
c. Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
d. State Legislators
e. State agencies
f. NRCS
g. BLM
h. Forest Service
i. Other agencies
XIII. Call to the Public
XIV. Adjourn
Dated this day of March 23, 2018
Pima Natural Resource Conservation District
By
Cindy Coping, Chair
Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation, such as a sign language interpreter, by contacting the district at https://pimanrcd.org/agency-contacts/ (scroll down to contact form). Requests should be made as early as possible to arrange the accommodation.
April 11, 2018 Local Work Group meeting announcement
Attached please find a draft agenda for our Local Work Group Meeting to be held on April 11th, 2018. The meeting will be held at the Tucson PMC from 10 am – 12 pm located at 3241 N. Romero Rd in Tucson. If you need directions, please phone 520-989-5625.
The Local Work Group in our area includes the Pima, Santa Cruz and Winkelman NRCD’s. In addition, other professionals who represent relevant agricultural and conservation interests will be invited. Please feel free to pass this notice on to others that you think might be interested. The current contact list is located below.
If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to give us input, please forward this input to Kristen Egen, District Conservationist at Kristen.egen
We would like at least one representative from each conservation district (Winkelman, Pima, Santa Cruz) at the meeting. The more individuals that can attend, the better input we will have for our Environmental Quality Incentives Program for FY2019.
PIMA, SANTA CRUZ, AND WINKELMAN LOCAL WORK GROUP
PUBLIC INPUT MEETING
APRIL 11, 2018 10 am– 12pm TUCSON PMC CONFERENCE ROOM
PURPOSE:
Provide a forum for the NRCD’s and NRCS to work collaboratively with local conservation stakeholders to strategically identify solutions to natural resource problems. Input gathered from this meeting will be used by NRCS when making decisions on focusing technical and financial assistance.
AGENDA
· Welcome and Introductions
· Introduction to the NRCS’s Conservation Implementation Strategy
· Review of recent applicants and the resource concerns addressed in the Tucson Field Office work area
· Review feedback from CIS submitted and work on changes for FY2019
· Review Local Questions from FY2018 and changes requested for FY2019
· Adjourn
Educational Presentation March 27: Erosion Studies in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
Click here to view the meeting agenda for March 27, 2018
On March 27, 2018, the Pima NRCD will host an educational presentation by Dr. Mary Nichols, who has done studies on the historical and current erosion and gullying in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.
Mary H. Nichols is a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Tucson, AZ (since 1991). She has a Ph. D. in Engineering from New Mexico State University. Her research interests include rangeland soil and water conservation practices and their legacy effects on landscapes, the use of high resolution photography in natural resource management, and dryland fluvial geomorphology and landscape evolution.
Current projects include watershed restoration using low-tech rock check dams, quantifying rangeland watershed sediment yields, documenting and interpreting gullies and channel evolution in semiarid watersheds, and the use of ground based lidar for quantifying surface soil erosion processes.