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Publications, Posters, Videos, and CDs/DVDs Listed Categorically

Air Quality
Conservation Education
Conservation Planning
Earth Team
Energy
Farm Bill Information
Fire
Irrigation
Miscellaneous
Noxious Weeds
Plants
Premise Identification Registration
Rangeland and Grazing
Soils
Training
Water Quality
Wildlife
Windbreaks/Forestry

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Air Quality

Conservation Education

Publications
Posters
  • An Inch of Soil
  • An Invitation to a Healthy School Yard
  • Backyard Conservation (Summer or Winter)
  • Colors of Soil
  • I Dig Dirt
  • Our Future Flies on the Wings of Pollinators
  • Wanted Poster: Insects to Improve Soil Quality
  • Water Cycle: Nature’s Recycling System
Videos
  • Backyard Conservation: One Yard at a Time
  • Linking Girls to the Land
CDs
  • Helping People Understand Soils: Tools for Educators

Conservation Planning

Publications
  • Conservation Plan Folders
  • Conservation Planning Brochure

Conservation Planning Workbook (PDF; 950 KB)

  • State Technical Committees and Local Working Groups

Earth Team

Publications
  • Join the Earth Team
Videos
  • Be a Volunteer

Energy

Publications
  • Energy Tools Packet
  • Save Energy Save Money

Farm Bill Information

Publications
  • Avoid the Disaster After the Disaster - EWP
  • Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans
  • Conservation Security Program
  • Emergency Watershed Protection Program
  • Farm Bill Folders
  • Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
  • On-the-Farm Conservation
  • Resource Conservation and Development Partnerships Serving America’s Communities
  • Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting
  • Technical Service Providers: Expanding Conservation Technical Assistance Capacity on Private Lands
  • Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program
  • Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) Montana State Plan
  • WRP: Restoring America’s Wetlands
Videos
  • Bitterroot Valley-Fire 2001 & EWP
  • EWP: Healing the Land
  • Farmland Protection Policy Act (CD-Based Training Program)
  • The TSP Video

Fire

Publications

Irrigation

Publications
  • Irrigation Diversion Structures
  • Irrigation Water Management
Videos
  • History of Buffalo Rapids
  • Irrigation Flow Measurement in Piped Systems

Miscellaneous

Publications
  • America’s Private Land: Geography of Hope
  • Challenging Careers in the NRCS
  • Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years
  • Human Capital Strategic Plan
  • In Partnership with People and a Healthy Land
  • Landowner’s Responsibility for Constructed Conservation Systems
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service American Indian Outreach Brochure
  • Montana 2007 Agricultural Statistics
  • NRCS Blank Cards with Envelopes
  • NRCS Folders
  • NRCS Pins
  • Our Living Land
  • Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan
  • Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan Summary Brochure
  • Productive Lands Healthy Environment: NRCS Strategic Plan Folder
  • Signatures on the Land Postcards
  • Tips on Land and Water Management for Small Farms and Ranches in Montana
Videos
  • The Blackfoot Challenge
  • Conservation on Your Own
  • Door to the Future
  • Faces
  • The Good Earth
  • Keepers of the Flame
  • Land for Life
  • Landscape
  • Listening to the Living Land: Outreach
  • Making a Difference
  • The Place of the Falling Waters: 1-Before the Dam
  • The Place of the Falling Waters: 2-The Road to the Dam
  • The Place of the Falling Waters: 3-The Dam and the Future
  • Production Agriculture: Feeding People While Protecting the Environment
CDs
  • NRCS Clipart Catalog
  • Stewardship for Small Acreages

Noxious Weeds

Publications
  • Ecology and Management of Canada Thistle
  • Ecology and Management of Dalmatian Toadflax
  • Ecology and Management of Dyer’s Woad
  • Ecology and Management of Field Bindweed
  • Ecology and Management of Houndstongue
  • Ecology and Management of Leafy Spurge
  • Ecology and Management of Perennial Pepperweed
  • Ecology and Management of Russian Knapweed
  • Ecology and Management of Spotted Knapweed
Poster
  • Noxious Weed Treatment Quick Reference

Plants

Publications
Video
  • Plant Solutions for Conservation Needs

Premise Identification Registration

Publications
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Beef
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Cervids
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Dairy
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Horses
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Overview
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Pork
  • Take the First Step: Register Your Premises - Poultry

Rangeland and Grazing

Publications
Videos
  • Riparian Ranching Successes in Montana
  • Roots of Stewardship: Protecting America’s Private Grazing lands
  • Undaunted Stewardship
CD
  • Putting Yourself Out to Pasture

Soils

Publications
Posters
  • An Inch of Soil
  • Colors of Soil
Videos
  • Desert Soils
  • How Chemicals Move Through the Soil
  • How Water Moves Through the Soil
CD
  • Helping People Understand Soils: Tools for Educators

Training

Videos
  • A Better Way – Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Closing the Sale
  • Communication Skills for Managers
  • Tape One – Lessons 1-3
  • Tape Two – Lessons 4-6
  • Controlling Interruptions
  • Dealing With Conflict & Confrontation
  • Volume One – Causes, Kinds, & Effects of Conflict
  • Volume Two – Conflict Resolution Strategies: Your Options
  • Volume Three – Problem-Solving in Action
  • Documenting Discipline
  • Driver Training/Question of Attitude
  • Driver Training/Preventable: Yes or No
  • Driver Training/Surviving Winter Driving
  • The Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program
  • Educational Meeting Video
  • Long-Term Care Insurance #1
  • Long-Term Care Insurance #2
  • Long-Term Care Insurance #3
  • Fish Sticks: Keeping the Vision Alive
  • Go for the Gold: Reaching for the Finishing Line
  • High Impact Leadership Vol. 1 & 2
  • How to Lead a Team
  • Volume One – Where to Begin
  • Volume Two – Building a Strong Foundation
  • Volume Three – The Facilitation Toolkit
  • Volume Four – A Problem-Solving & Decision-Making Toolkit
  • Volume Five – Ensuring Accountability
  • Volume Six – Dealing With Conflict
  • Volume Seven – Leadership
  • Identifying and Protecting Human Burial Sites
  • Identifying and Protecting Traditional Cultural Places
  • Meetings, Bloody Meetings
  • More Bloody Meetings
  • NRCS: A Great Place to Work
  • PEAK Performance
  • Simple Justice – Program Discrimination Complaints at USDA (Video & Audio Cassette)
  • Teampac – Avoiding Group Think
  • USDA – Introduction to Civil Rights
  • USDA Section 508 Seminar 2002 (3 Parts)
  • Workplace Violence

Water Quality

Publications
Videos
  • A Clear Reflection: Forestry BMPs
  • Improving Water Quality at Godfrey Creek
  • The Milk River
  • The Prairie Pothole Region
  • Protecting Surface Water with Vegetative Filter Strips
  • Techniques for Restoring Wetland Topography
  • Wealth in Wetlands
DVDs
  • Stream Restoration Design - National Engineering Handbook Part 654
Posters
  • Your Hometown Clean Water Tour

Wildlife

Publications  
Posters
  • Conservation Can Be Habitat Forming
    • Sage Grouse
    • Cinnamon Teal
  • An Invitation to a Healthy Country Home
  • An Invitation to a Healthy Yard
  • Our Future Flies on the Wings of Pollinators
Videos
  • Wildlife in Agricultural Ecosystems (A series of 28 different programs on 14 different video tapes.)
  • Course Introduction & History of Agriculture
  • History & Future of Agriculture
  • Effects of Farm Policy on Fish & Wildlife
  • Effects of Pesticides on Fish & Wildlife
  • Mitigating Pesticide Effects
  • Effects of Agriculture on Water Quality
  • Major Crop Types as Wildlife Habitat
  • Upland Crop management Systems
  • Role of Private Ag Lands in Water Bird Conservation
  • Edges & Ecological Traps
  • Landscape Ecology & Ag Ecosystems
  • Effects of Changing Ag Landscapes on Biodiversity
  • Wetlands in Agricultural Ecosystems
  • Riparian Reserves in Agricultural Ecosystems
  • Field Borders, Fence Rows, & Shelterbelts
  • Roadsides, Odd Areas, & Food Plots
  • Pasture Management
  • Habitat Assessment on Farmlands
  • Developing a Farm Plan I
  • Developing a Farm Plan II
  • Federal Assistance Programs
  • State Agency Assistance to Landowners
  • Animal Damage in Agricultural Areas
  • Managing Wildlife – Agricultural Conflicts
  • Wildlife-Related Recreational Opportunities in Agricultural Areas
  • Game Farming
  • A Global Context to Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems
DVDs  
  • Land of Life: A Celebration of Wildlife Habitat on Private Lands

Windbreaks/Forestry

Publications  
  • Conservation Trees for Your Farm, Family, and Future  
  • Forest Management and Bats
  • How Windbreaks Work  
  • Living with Fire: A Guide for the Homeowner  
  • Wildfire Rehabilitation Assistance. What can you do to protect your home and property after a wildfire?
  • Windbreak Establishment  
  • Windbreak Management  
  • Windbreak Renovation  
  • Windbreaks and Wildlife  
  • Windbreaks for Montana: A Landowner's Guide

Last Modified: 05/16/2008