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Agriculture Solid Waste Management
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Soil & Water Conservation
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Through the Agricultural Solid Waste Management Program, agricultural producers and processors generating biodegradable waste can implement approved Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce or eliminate odors and/or hazardous leachate or runoff due to accumulations of ag waste.
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Coastal Wetlands Re-Vegetation
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Soil & Water Conservation
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This program is conducted through partnerships among the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the LA Department of Natural Resources/Coastal Restoration Division, the LDAF/Office of Soil & Water Conservation and eleven coastal SWCDs. Using locally adapted plant species, an average of 30 linear miles of shoreline and interior wetland restoration plantings are implemented each year within the LA coastal zone.
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Conservation Committee
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Soil & Water Conservation
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The Louisiana State Soil and Water Conservation Committee (SWCC) was created by the State Legislature in l938 under Act 370 to develop the LA conservation district program and to establish operational policy, and provide general regulatory oversight of the conservation district program.
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Conservation Districts
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Soil & Water Conservation
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The Office of Soil & Water Conservation provides financial assistance, administrative support, centralized direction and coordination to Louisiana’s 44 Soil & Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) which provide conservation planning services to landowners within their individual districts. SWCDs are local units of state government with capabilities very unique to any other form of state or local government, due mainly to their capability of entering private property at the request of landowners to plan and/or construct various conservation systems.
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EPA/Agriculture Nonpoint Source Abatement
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Soil & Water Conservation
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Nonpoint source pollution, a type of water pollution that results from rainfall run-off from broad landscapes rather than from a specific source, is the largest remaining type of water pollution that needs to be addressed within Louisiana and across the nation in order to restore the designated uses (i.e. fishing and swimming) to impaired water bodies.
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Forest Legacy Program
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Forestry
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Forest Management
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The Forest Legacy Program (FLP), a United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service (USDA-FS) program in partnership with States, supports State efforts to protect environmentally sensitive forest lands. Designed to encourage the protection of privately owned forest lands, FLP is an entirely voluntary program. To maximize the public benefits it achieves, the program focuses on the acquisition of partial interests in privately owned forest lands.
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Forest Productivity Program
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Forestry
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Forest Management
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The Forestry Productivity Program (FPP) provides financial assistance to eligible landowners for establishing and improving a crop of trees. This program helps offset a landowner’s expenses by sharing the cost of implementing specific forestry practices designed to produce a timber crop.
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Forest Stewardship Program
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Forestry
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Forest Management
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The goal of the Forest Stewardship Program is to assist private forest landowners to more actively manage their forest and related resources; to keep these lands in a productive and healthy condition for present and future owners; and to increase the social, economic and environmental benefits of these lands.
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Reforestation
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Forestry
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Reforestation
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In addition to production of millions of tree seedlings, the Office of Forestry's reforestation activities include a tree improvement program.
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Seedling Sales
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Forestry
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Reforestation
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The Forestry office produces seedlings around the state in four different locations. Seedlings may be ordered begining August 1st of each year. After the harvest, the orders will be filled and available begining December 15 through March 1st.
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