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South Dakota Publications and Videotapes

The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides a variety of free publications about conserving our natural resources. 

Additional Publications:

Social Sciences Institute - The NRCS Social Sciences Institute offers publications on social and economic issues, human behavior, and community development tools.

State of the Land Index of Publications - Links to books, papers, and publications on water quality and other natural resources issues.

Buffers, Common-Sense Conservation - Conservation buffers help landowners maintain productive, profitable, and environmentally responsible farming and ranching operations.  Conservation buffers protect soil, improve air and water quality, enhance wildlife habitat, and help create a more diverse, scenic landscape.

Better Wetlands - More than a dozen ideas to improve restored wetlands for wildlife and personal enjoyment.

The following document requires Adobe Acrobat.

An Agricultural Adventure With Lewis and Clark (PDF; 12.8 MB) - Activity guide that educates children not only about Lewis and Clark's expedition of the Louisiana Purchase but also about South Dakota agriculture and natural resources.  It contains activities about cattle, crops, soils, and other natural resources and emphasizes conservation practices that producers use to protect the soil and water.  It also stresses the importance that agricultural producers have on all people - not just those that live on a farm.

Videotapes Available from State Office Library (To Order Contact the Public Affairs Specialist):

  • Agriculture in the Classroom
  • Agriculture and the Environment:  A Growing Partnership
  • Agriculture and Wildlife (3-tape series)
  • Australia Land Care Program
  • Agroforestry (satellite broadcast 03/02/97)
  • Alternative Uses of Rangeland Choices of the Land (06/08/88)
  • America's Private Land:  Geography of Hope
  • Are You Ready for an Uncertain Future?  (05/22/96)
  • Backyard Conservation (01/28/98)
  • Backyard Conservation (PSA's)
  • Bootstraps:  A Bridge to the Future
  • Bootstraps:  Ranching for the 90's
  • Boostraps Story, CES (02/21/93)
  • Bringing Wetlands Back - Iowa (09/90)
  • Building Your Own Terraces
  • Channel Earth TV Program "From the Grassroots" (2 videos)
  • Buffer Strips (11/97)
  • Choked Streams, Clogged Waterways - A Dirty Shame
  • Clean Water:  Progress Through Partnership
  • Composting
  • Conservation Compliance:  Common Sense Solutions
  • Conservation on Your Own - West Version
  • Conservation Partnerships:  Changing America's Landscape (09/25/97)
  • Crop Residue Management - Benefits of No-Till on Wildlife
  • Crop Residue Management - Impact on Environment and No-Till Fertility
  • CRP Management With a Residual Advantage
  • CRP and South Dakota:  Is There a Future?
  • Early American, The
  • Earth Needs You:  Join the Team!
  • Following Nature's Plan
  • GPS for Engineering Applications
  • Grassland Videos (4) (08/96)
  • RAW Grassland Footage - Chamberlain & Burke (08/03/96)
  • Growing With Conservation 1996 Farm Bill
  • Groundwater (4 videos)
  • Groundwater and Ag Chemicals
  • Hazard Communications Standards Program
  • Home Composting:  Turning Your Spoils Into Soils
  • Identifying and Protecting Traditional Cultural Places
  • Integrated Natural Resource Planning - Ecosystem Management Approach
  • Landcare Presenter
  • Lines on the Land (Educational Package)
  • Locally Led Conservation
  • Locally Led Planning Process
  • Managing Crop Residue from Harvest Through Planting (10/92)
  • Managing Crop Residue from Harvest Through Planting Corn and Soybeans (10/92)
  • Managing Small Grain Residues - From Harvest Through Planting
  • Managing Your Native Grasslands With Prescribed Burning
  • Make Your Own Adventure the Missouri River Watershed Land, Water & You
  • National Interagency Riparian Initiative (05/01/97)
  • Natural Balance:  Restoring Native Habitats (Monsanto 1991)
  • Naturally Fertile Fields (1993)
  • No-Till Planters and High Residue Cultivators (5)
  • Planter Modification for No-Till
  • No-Till Planting with White Planter
  • No-Till Planting with Case International
  • No-Till Planting with John Deere
  • No-Till Planting with Drills
  • Partnerships for Watersheds (07/97)
  • Planned Grazing Systems
  • Pointless Pollution:  America's Water Crisis
  • PPI Herbicides and Conservation Compliance
  • Preserving the Health of the Land, America's Conservation Challenge (12/99)
  • Private Rural Well Protection - Module 1 - Introduction
  • Private Rural Well Protection - Module 2 - Well Plugging
  • Protecting America's Fresh Water - Story of Richmond Lake Water Quality Demo Project (1993)
  • Quality Water for Livestock (Ducks Unlimited)
  • Range Camps and Youth Fun and Learning (1989)
  • RC&D Video (09/25/95)
  • RC&D, This is
  • Recreational Opportunities in a Changing America, an Expanding Role for SCS
  • Reinvesting in America's Watersheds (08/99)
  • Remote Sensing (A Better Way)
  • Residue Management Conference - Western Version (1994)
  • Residue Management for Conservation Compliance (1994)
  • Restoring and Protecting America's Waters
  • Riparian Grazing Management by Objectives (1992)
  • Riparian Initiative
  • Roots of Stewardship - Protecting America's Private Grazing Lands
  • Saving Our Wetlands (National Wildlife Federation) (1994)
  • Scourge on Spurge
  • Soil - It's Got Personality
  • Soil Sampling for Fertilizer Recommendations (1998)
  • Soil Wizard, The
  • Soil:  Who Needs It?  The Soil Tunnel
  • Solving the CRP Puzzle - A Guide to Growers (MW Version)
  • Solving the CRP Puzzle - Northern Plain Version
  • South Dakota Association of RC&D Councils, Inc.
  • Straight Talk About Your Conservation Plan (1992)
  • Surge Puts Money in Your Pocket (TX)
  • Sustaining America's Agriculture - High Tech and Horse Sense
  • Techniques for Better Tree Planting (07/06/92)
  • This is RC&D
  • Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations - Jim Lyons Overview (09/18/98)
  • Venture Capital for Bio-based Products
  • Vernon Watershed Story, The
  • Voices of Experience:  Watershed Protection for the Future (04/96)
  • Wading Into Wetlands (04/26/96)
  • We All Live Downstream (1996)
  • Wealth in Wetlands, The
  • We Owe It To Our Children
  • Windbreak Establishment and Renovation With Gary Kuhn, NE SCS State Forester
  • Windbreaks:  Planning, Planting and Care
  • Wonder Beneath Us, The:  Is My Well Water Safe?  (1996)

 



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