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Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance: References
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http://www.awwa.org/publications/WaterWeekSubscriberDetail.cfm?
itemnumber=5892
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “About Pfiesteria.” July 2004.
http://www.cdc.gov/hab/pfiesteria/about.htm
Chite, Ralph. “Farm Bill Budget and Costs: 2002 vs. 2007.” CRS Report for Congress. Congressional Research Service. Order Code RS22694. July 17, 2007. www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RS22694.pdf
Claassen, Roger. “Can Commodity Program Payments Encourage Better Nutrient Management?” US Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Amber Waves. Volume 5, Issue 3. June 2007. http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June07/PDF/AW_June07.pdf
Claassen, Roger, Vince Breneman, Shawn Bucholtz, Andrea Cattaneo, Robert Johansson, and Mitch Morehart. “Environmental Compliance in U.S. Agricultural Policy; Past Performance and Future Potential.” A Report from the Economic Research Service. United States Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Economic Report No. 832. June 2004. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer832/
Claassen, Roger. “Have Conservation Compliance Incentives Reduced Soil Erosion?” Amber Waves. June 2004. http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June04/Features/
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Congressional Research Service. “Pfiesteria and Related Harmful Blooms: Natural Resource and Human Health Concerns.” Authors: Eugene H. Buck, Claudia Copeland, and Jeffrey A. Zinn, Senior Analysts
Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division and Donna U. Vogt, Analyst,
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EWG—Environmental Working Group. “Dead in the water. Reforming wasteful farm subsidies can restore Gulf fisheries.” April 10, 2006. http://www.ewg.org/reports/deadzone
Environmental Working Group. Farm Subsidies Database http://farm.ewg.org/farm/index.php
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Government Accountability Office. “Agricultural Conservation; USDA Needs to better Ensure Protection of Highly Erodible Cropland and Wetlands.” Report to the Ranking Democratic Member, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, U.S. Senate. April 2003. GAO-03-418. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03418.pdf
Government Accountability Office. “Conservation Compliance Provisions. Briefing for Staff of Senator Tom Harkin. USDA Responses to GAO’s April 2003 Recommendations and Related Issues That Could Be Addressed in the 2007 Farm Bill.” September 13, 2006.
Howarth, Robert W., Andrew Sharpley, and Dan Walker. Sources of Nutrient Pollution to Coastal Waters in the United States: Implications for Achieving Coastal Water Quality Goals.” Estuaries. Volume 25, Issue 4. p. 656–676. August 2002. h
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LUMCON—Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. “Dead zone size near top end.” Press release. July 28, 2007. http://www.gulfhypoxia.net
NASS—National Agricultural Statistics Service. “U.S. Farmers Plant Largest Corn Crop in 63 Years.” Press Release. Jun. 29, 2007. http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2007/06_29_2007.asp
Simpson, Tom, Jim Pease, Beth McGee, Matt Smith, and Ron Korcak. “Biofuels and Water Quality. Meeting the Challenge and Protecting the Environment.” Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Program. http://www.mawaterquality.org/biofuels
SWCS & ED—Soil Water Conservation Society and Environmental Defense. “Conservation Security Program (CSP) Program Assessment.” February 2007. http://www.swc.org/documents/CSP_assessment.pdf
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. “Agricultural Phosphorus and Eutrophication.” Authors: Sharpley, A.N., T. Daniel, T. Sims, J. Lemunyon, R. Stevens, and R. Parry. ARS 149. September 2003. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/Phos&Eutro2/phos&eutrointro2ed.htm
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US Department of Agriculture. National Resources Inventory. 2003 Annual NRI. Summary Report for All States—Highly Erodible and Non-Highly Erodible Cropland and Table of 2003 Highly Erodible and Non-Highly Erodible Cropland by State, in Thousands of Acres, with Margins of Error. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/TECHNICAL/land/nri03/statereports/table5.html
US Department of Agriculture. National Resources Inventory. 2003 Annual NRI. Soil Erosion.
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US Department of Agriculture. National Resources Inventory. 2003 Annual NRI. Summary Report for All States—Land Use and Erosion.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/TECHNICAL/land/nri03/statereports/all.html
US Department of Agriculture. Natural Resource Conservation Service website—Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation (HELC/WC) Compliance Provisions. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/compliance/index.html
US Department of Agriculture. Natural Resource Conservation Service “Unfunded Conservation Information” websites, for example: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/2006_Contracts/2006_EqipUnfunded....
US Department of Agriculture. Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Model Simulation of Soil Loss, Nutrient Loss and Change in Soil Organic Carbon Associated with Crop Production.” Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP). June 2006. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/nri/ceap/croplandreport/
US Department of Agriculture. Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Food Security Act (FSA) Compliance Review 2005 Report Draft.” Prepared by Operations Management and Oversight Division. February 2006.
US Department of Interior. National Park Service. General Information about the Mississippi River. http://www.nps.gov/archive/miss/features/factoids/
US Environmental Protection Agency. Consumer Factsheet on: Atrazine. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwh/c-soc/atrazine.html
World Resources Institute. Earthtrends. http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/coastal-marine/map-201.html
