related to agroforestry and other integrated land use systems. Focus is on applied research on the financial impacts of specific agricultural and land use practices, so that farmers and landowners can evaluate potential profits of specific practices. Particular
emphasis and experience with economic and financial analysis of growing hybrid poplar as an alternative agricultural crop.
o Linking University educators, public agency staff, landowners, business people, and others interested in integrated land use; o Promoting and conducting educational and training activities
throughout Minnesota;
o Serving as a clearinghouse and referral center for agroforestry and integrated natural resources and agricultural management;
o Encouraging a landscape level, integrated watershed approach in natural resources and agricultural management.
CINRAM encourages:
o Practices that use the land to meet both present needs and to protect its long-term integrity.
o Build awareness of, and appreciation for, connections that already exist -- between field, forest and town, producer and consumer, land use and water quality, families and farms, and between urban and rural communities.
o Encourage profitable technologies and practices that mesh diverse land uses -- crop production and water quality maintenance,
agroforestry and wildlife protection, livestock production, and soil enhancement.
o Create connections among individuals -- researchers and farmers, agriculture and natural resource professionals, and local
government leaders and the University faculty, landowners and environmentalists, industry representatives and public agency staff -- who help make and implement land use decision.
Teaching
Agroforestry: Sustainable Production and Watershed Management
Overview of agroforestry practices and their role in achieving sustainable development. Emphasizes complementary relationships with watershed management. Examples from USA and overseas.
Research
Evaluation of planted riparian forests - MN River
Funding: State of Minnesota (LCMR)
Partners: Minnesota River Joint Powers Board, Natural Resources Research
Institute (Duluth), Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
National Assessment: Potential to incorporate short rotation woody crops in agroforestry
Block and linear plantings of short rotation woody crops for biomass
Funding: USDA Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service,
National Agroforestry Center
Partners: Minnesota Agroforestry Coalition, Dept. of Energy, WesMin
Effects of herbaceous and short rotation woody crops on nutrient and pesticide movement
Funding: USDA Forest Service, Dept of Energy Partners: University of Minnesota Crookston
University of Nebraska, Lincoln Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Research
- Responses of pest insects to climatic variables in Great Plains agroforestry systems
Windbreaks, Riparian Buffers, Silvopasture, Forest Farming
- Agroforestry and ecological concepts with agriculture
- Agroforestry and Sustainable Ag Systems
University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Dept of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife
Teaching
Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Covers windbreaks and shelterbelts, silvopasture, woodlot management and specialty crop intercropping systems. Emphasis is on temperate agro-ecosystems and how trees & woody plants can increase production, profit and environmental compatibility.
Research
Assessment of climatic change on a mixed agricultural landscape in the North American Great Plains
Funding: US Dept of Energy, GP, NIGEC
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Filter strip characteristics of riparian buffers
Funding: US Environmental Protection Agency, Nebraska DER Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center
Demonstration of buffer designs
Funding: USDA Forest Service
Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center
NPS runoff from small agricultural watersheds
Funding: USDA Forest Service
Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center
Impacts of tree windbreaks on distribution of insect pests and their natural enemies in sustainable agricultural systems
Funding: Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Partners:
Modeling a shelterbelt agroforestry system
Funding: Cooperative State Research Education & Extension Service, NRICGP Partners: Iowa State University
Integrated crop - livestock research for sustainable agriculture in Nebraska
Funding: Cooperative State Research Education & Extension Service
Partners:
Microclimatic impacts of shelterbelts in agroforestry ecosystems
Funding: Cooperative State Research Education & Extension Service, NRI Partners: USDA Forest Service, Iowa State University
Plant selection guidelines for riparian buffers in the Great Plains
Funding: USDA Forest Service
Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center
Relationships of woody and non-woody farm field edges on potential natural enemies of crop pests
Funding: ACE, Hatch
Riparian zones and water quality
Partners: Biosystems Engineering
Integrated farming systems
Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center, ARDC
Windbreak shelter effects
Funding: McIntire-Stennis, USDA
Partners: Iowa State University, Kansas State University
Natural enemies and crop pests in windbreaks
Extension
Windbreak technology
Funding: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Nebraska Forest
Service, North Dakota State University
Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Nebraska Forest
Service, North Dakota State University
How to design riparian buffers
Funding: USDA National Agroforestry Center
Partners: USDA National Agroforestry Center, Iowa State University
Riparian buffer strips in-service training
Funding: University of Nebraska Lincoln Cooperative Extension
Extension forestry
Funding: University of Nebraska Lincoln Cooperative Extension
Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, FSA, Nebraska Dept
of Natural Resources
Conservation Tree Planting Funding: NRDS
Partners: Nebraska Forest Service
University of Idaho, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences
The College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences consists of five
departments, which together form a comprehensive educational program on the study and management of natural resources. Each of the departments has several degree options to provide students with a flexible curriculum for the Bachelor of Science (B.S.). Graduate study for a Master of Natural Resources
35 (MNR), Master of Science (M.S.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is highly customized to the students interests and experience.
Undergraduate
o Ecology & Conservation Biology o Fish & Wildlife Resources o Forest Products
o Resource Recreation & Tourism o Rangeland Ecology & Management o Forest Resources
Graduate
o Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) o Master of Science (M.S.)
o Master of Natural Resources (MNR)
Teaching
Agroforestry (Range/For 458/558)
Interdisciplinary approach to sustainable land use management that involves ecological, social and economic integration of forest and woodland production with grazing and/or agricultural crops.
Agroforestry Systems (Range/For 595b)
Analysis of interdisciplinary systems for sustainable management of various crop and animal requirements under specific ecological constraints to meet varying conditions, as well as social and economic requirements.
Silvopastoralism (Range/For 595a)
Interdisciplinary approach to sustainable management of pasture lands that involves ecological, social and economic integration of trees shrubs and herbaceous vegetation with animal use.
Plant-Soil Relationships in Agroforestry Systems (Range/For 595c)
Analysis of above and below ground factors under various agroforestry and silvopastoral systems and the interaction with varying organic and inorganic elements as well as plants and animals.
Agroforestry Summer Field Course (Range/For 595d)
Analysis of agroforestry practices and systems under varying climatic, edaphic, animal and socio-economic constraints.
Research
A soil-site study of three major windbreak species in North Dakota
Develop soil-site estimating equations for predicting height growth of appropriate species. Windbreaks
Funding: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Agroforestry conservation trees in urban areas
Taking rural experience in agroforestry to urban environments.
Funding: US Agency for International Development
Wood ash as a chemical soil additive in an agroforestry practice
Funding: McIntire-Stennis Partners: USDA
Water balance development with agroforestry
Soil stabilization with agroforestry
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: US Agency for International Development
Silvopastoral management by site class and livestock use in Idaho
Silvopasture, forage production and tree growth.
Funding: McIntire-Stennis, USDA Forest Service Partners: USDA Forest Service
Role of trees in soil fertility circulation on farmlands
Agroforestry for soil rehabilitation
Funding: Forest Fertilization Coop.
Riparian buffer strip agroforestry for protection of water quality
Riparian Buffers
Funding: Policy Analysis Group
Silvopastoralism with sheep as a silvicultural management tool in conifer plantations
Funding: US Agency for International Development, McIntire-Stennis Partners: US Agency for International Development, USDA
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Agroforestry to stabilize depleted farmland in Palouse farming region of Idaho
Funding: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Use of poplar for site stabilization in the Palouse Prarie farming region of Idaho and Washington
Use of poplar varieties along streams and drainage channels for site stabilization and erosion control.
Funding: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Farm forestry for conservation and fuelwood production
Field Day, Publication
Funding: Nat'l Arbor Day Foundation Partners: Nat'l Arbor Day Foundation
Use of black locust for site stabilization in the Palouse Prarie farming region of Idaho and Washington
Black locust for site rehabilitation and stabilization on eroded farmlands. Field Day, Publication
Funding: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Idaho Wildlife Dept. Partners: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Idaho Wildlife Dept.
Use of Geographic Information System in preparing silvopastoral management plans in the Western U.S. prarie regions
Workshop, Field Day, Publication Silvopasture
Funding: USDA Partners: USDA
Idaho Agroforestry Coalition
Coordination of agroforestry implementation activities through federal, state and NGO groups.
Workshop, Field Day, Publication
Agroforestry conservation in communities
Workshop, Publication, Field Day, Video
Funding: Nat'l Arbor Day Foundation
International
Applying environmental concerns with agroforestry
Managing slash and burn agriculture
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: US Agency for International Development
A fresh vegetable agroforestry farming system potential in urban areas of Congo
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: US Agency for International Development
Black locust agroforestry systems in the Palouse Prarie farming region of Washington, Idaho and Kashmir
Funding: McIntire-Stennis Partners: USDA
Effect of alley cropping (maize, corn and cassia) on soil fertility and crop production in Africa
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: US Agency for International Development
Ecological and sociological strategies for silvopastoralism in Argentina
Funding: Food & Agriculture Organization
Partners: Food & Agriculture Organization, Government of Argentina
Acacia nilotica Hurry agroforestry system in Sind, Pakistan
Effect of Hurry system on physical and chemical soil properties
Funding: US Agency for International Development
Partners: US Agency for International Development, Sind Forestry Dept.
Slash and burn agroforestry in tropical countries
Honduras, Ecuador
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: Peace Corps
Site productivity in pine stands in Honduras
Funding: US Agency for International Development Partners: Honduras Forest Service
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