Lone Star Healthy Streams
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The goal of the Lone Star Healthy Streams program is to help protect Texas waterways from bacterial contamination originating from livestock operations and feral hogs that may pose a serious health risk to Texas citizens. To achieve this, the program strives to educate Texas farmers, ranchers and landowners about proper grazing, feral hog management and riparian area protection. rivers. The program's framework is five resource manuals that focus on bacterial runoff management for beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, poultry and feral hogs. Through enhanced education regarding riparian protection and vegetation management on grazing lands, the program also helps protect Texas waterways from sediment, nutrient and pesticide runoff. Funding for this project is provided through a Clean Water Act nonpoint source grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.
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This course will inform participants about riparian and watershed processes, the benefits that healthy riparian areas provide, and the tools that prevent and/or resolve degradation and improve water quality.
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Treatment response of common aquatic plants to registered herbicides, including water use restriction information, common active ingredients, and common herbicide trade names.
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Prescribed burning is an effective brush management technique for improving pasture accessibility and increasing the production of forage and browse. Fire also suppresses most brush and cactus species. This bulletin discusses how to plan and implement a prescribed burn, including predicting fire and weather behavior, topography, fuel, firing techniques, fire containment, safety precautions, and costs. […]
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This publication provides practical information about ranch management and is contained in easy-to-read tables and charts that forms a handy reference for ranchers.
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This palm-sized flip deck features photographs and line drawings of 61 aquatic plants commonly found in Texas.
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This publication is a collection of the PowerPoint presentations made at the Largemouth Bass Conference held March 27, 2008 in Athens, Texas.