The first five years of the Conservation Effects Assessment Project

摘要: T he Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) was initiated by the USDA Natural Resources Service (NRCS), Agricultural Research (ARS), and Cooperative State Research, Education, Extension (CSREES) in response to a general call for better accountability of how society would benefit from 2002 farm bill's substantial increase conservation program funding (Mausbach Dedrick 2004). The original goals CEAP were establish scientific understanding effects practices at watershed scale estimate impacts benefits reporting national regional levels. Other federal agencies nongovernmental organizations with natural resource interests are currently partners various activities, often through jointly funded research projects. CEAP activities organized into three interconnected efforts: 1. Bibliographies, literature reviews, workshop what is known about environmental field scales, kinds data collection needed assess practice benefits. 2. Watershed assessment studies provide in-depth quantification water quality soil local level insight on needed…