soil-conservation practices
101Homestead Act — thumb|Certificate of homestead given under the Homestead Act in Nebraska, 1868.The Homestead Act was a United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title to 160 acres (one quarter section or about 65 hectares) 640 acres (one section… …
102Social forestry in India — The term ‘Social forestry’ first used in 1976 by The National Commission on Agriculture, Government of India. It was then that India embarked upon a social forestry project with the aim of taking the pressure off the forests and making use of all …
103Finger Lakes National Forest — The Finger Lakes National Forest encompasses 16,032 acres (65.9 km²), nestled between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State in the United States of America. The forest has over 30 miles (50 km) of… …
104Sanborn Field — Infobox nrhp | name =Sanborn Field and Soil Erosion Plots nrhp type = nhl caption = location= Columbia, Missouri lat degrees = 38 lat minutes = 56 lat seconds = 27 lat direction = N long degrees = 92 long minutes = 19 long seconds = 17 long… …
105Dick Cheney — 46th Vice President of the United States …
106Ruoergai Marshes — The Ruoergai Marshes transbounds the Sichuan and Gansu Provinces in the upper Yellow River on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (3,400 to 3,900 m. altitude). They consist of approximately 10,000 square kilometres of peat bogs, sedge marshes …
107police — /peuh lees /, n., v., policed, policing. n. 1. Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. 2. (used with a pl. v.) members of such a force: Several police are… …
108Resource management — For the New Zealand law, see Resource Management Act 1991. In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment of an organization s resources when they are needed. Such resources may include financial… …
109Mitigation banking — is the restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of a wetland, stream, or habitat conservation area which offsets expected adverse impacts to similar nearby ecosystems. The goal is to replace the exact function and value of the specific …
110Roosevelt, Franklin D. — ▪ president of United States Introduction in full Franklin Delano Roosevelt, byname FDR born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York, U.S. died April 12, 1945, Warm Springs, Georgia 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only… …
