Droughts in the United States

Results: 546



#Item
391Meteorology / Ecological succession / Fire / Occupational safety and health / Hydrology / Wildfire / Drought / Drought in the United States / Fire ecology / Atmospheric sciences / Droughts / Physical geography

purpose, requires working through a complicated web of laws, regulations, and constituencies.” The report cited the CALFED program in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region of California as a model for resolving complex wa

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:04
392Physical geography / National Drought Policy Commission / Drought / Emergency management / Water crisis / Drought in the United States / National Integrated Drought Information System / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

Drought Programs States We learned that as of June 1999, 30 states had drought plans, with most of those oriented to relief rather than preparedness (Appendix B, File C). Two states had delegated drought planning to loca

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:52
393Agriculture in the United States / Physical geography / National Drought Policy Commission / Drought / Cooperative extension service / County / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

Localities A sample survey of county officials conducted by the National Association of Counties (NACO) in 1999 indicated that county governments primarily rely on federal programs for drought assistance (Appendix B, Fil

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:19:00
394Physical geography / Climatology / Drought / Hydrology / National Drought Policy Commission / Emergency management / Drought in the United States / Atmospheric sciences / Droughts / Meteorology

Drought-related data can be better marshaled, interpreted, and disseminated to all parties with an interest in drought, including the media and public at large, so that citizens and experts in drought management alike ca

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:22
395Physical geography / National Drought Policy Commission / Drought / National Integrated Drought Information System / Drought in the United States / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

Specific Recommendations 1.1 Congress should adequately fund existing drought preparedness programs such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Technical Assistance Program (Public Law 46) and Environment

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:32
396Physical geography / Climate of the United States / Drought in the United States / Drought / North American drought / National Drought Policy Commission / Emergency management / Drought Research Initiative / Drought in Canada / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

FROM RELIEF TO READINESS For years, farmers and ranchers, tribes, public land managers, scientists, economists, small business owners, conservationists and wildlife managers, small and large municipalities, counties, sta

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:20
397National Drought Policy Commission / Physical geography / Administration of federal assistance in the United States / Drought / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

FINDINGS Our assessments of federal, regional, tribal, state, and local drought-related programs indicate that there is broad-based understanding of the value and benefits of drought preparedness. The assessments also re

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:26
398Organic farming / Milk / Livestock / Dairy farming / Dairy / Agricultural productivity / United States Agency for International Development / Farmer / Food security / Agriculture / Food and drink / Sustainable agriculture

Zimbabwe For over a decade, livelihoods in Zimbabwe have been crippled by the country’s sharp economic decline and hyperinflation, coupled by cyclical droughts and erratic rainfall patterns. To pay for food, families

Add to Reading List

Source URL: www.idd.landolakes.com

Language: English - Date: 2012-08-03 19:32:55
399Physical geography / Hydrology / Agriculture in the United States / Dust Bowl / Great Depression in the United States / National Drought Policy Commission / Drought / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / Droughts

Commitment is required to achieve the goals of national drought policy. That commitment must include resolve by the federal government to provide dependable, long-term funding of the required work and the personnel to ca

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:22
400Droughts / Physical geography / Drought / Crisis management / Xerochore / Drought in the United States / Atmospheric sciences / Meteorology / National Drought Policy Commission

Drought near Bracketville, Texas, in 1980 ravaged the landscape, almost drying up this livestock watering

Add to Reading List

Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:18
UPDATE