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Current Issue
The Spring 2013 issue of Conservation Currents includes articles on:
Chickens in Your Backyard. Interest in locally grown food
is on the rise, from urban gardening to backyard chicken operations.
Can Fairfax County residents keep chickens? How can owners care for
chickens? What is the best way to manage chicken waste?
Limiting Pesticide and Herbicide Use. U.S.
homeowners apply about 80 million pounds of pesticides to lawns each
year, using 10 times more pesticides per acre on lawns than farmers
do on crops, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. How did
pesticide become a household item?
2013 Native Seedling Sale. This year's
seedling sale features shrubs and trees that will restore beauty to
your landscape.
Fairfax County
Farmers Markets Fresh strawberries. Heirloom tomatoes. Summer
squash. Artisan cheese. Garden-fresh herbs. Flower bouquets. Rainbows
of fruits and vegetables, tables of pies, breads, rolls, stacks of
eggs, jars of honey, bottles of milk, and an assortment of local
beef, chicken, and pork. Fairfax County farmers markets will be in
full swing again soon, starting in early May and wrapping up in
November.
Featured Articles
It's Spring: Hold On to Your
Fertilizer!
Before you break out the fertilizer, think carefully about your
lawn care practices this spring.
Bringing Rain Gardens
Home
How one homeowner took charge of the runoff problem in her
backyard by building a rain garden.
Humans and Deer; What's the
Matter with Deer?
The current deer overpopulation problem may have more to do with
us than we think.
Environmental Articles
Browse selected articles from Conservation Currents, search the NVSWCD website or download past issues of the newsletter from our archive.
Conservation Currents Archive
Agriculture & Landscaping
Agriculture & Horse Operations
Crimping Cover
Crops
Establishing Your
Horse Pasture
Five Steps to a
Great Horse Pasture
Frost Seeding
for Horse Pastures
Heavy-Use
Sacrifice Areas
Managing Horse
Waste
No-Till
Agriculture
Open Space
Disappearing
Sustainable
Agriculture
Urbanization and
Groundwater
Lawn Care and Gardens
Conservation
Landscaping
Don't Tidy
Your Winter Landscape
Fall Is Crucial
Time for Lawn Care
Garter Snakes
in the Garden
It's Spring: Hold
On to Your Fertilizer!
Managing Soil
Keeps Fields Green
Organic
Gardening: Limit Pesticide Use
Soil Test for
Fertility
Wake Up and Smell
the...Mulch!
Weed Free
Lawns—Naturally
Ecosystems
Wildlife and
Habitat
Bluebirds: A
Conservation Success
Create a Monarch
Waystation
Geese at the
Government Center
Habitat for
Life
Help Keep
Track of Turtles
Humans and
Deer
Vernal Pool
Breeders
Wildlife
Habitat with Audubon at Home
What's Happening to Our
Bats?
What's the Buzz on
Bees?
Plants and Trees
Are Pest
Plants...Born to be Bad?
Board Adopts Tree
Canopy Goal
Dogwoods' Critical
Role in Forests
Early
Wildflowers: Spring Ephemerals
Emerald Ash
Borer Threat
Fall Color of
Trees
How Do Trees
Benefit Me?
Poison Ivy:
Avoiding It
Trees Promote
Biodiversity
Understanding Tree
Roots
Urban
Forestry, Past and Future
Rain Gardens, LID & Stormwater
Bringing
Rain Gardens Home
Herrity Green
Roof
Low Impact
Development
Providence
Stormwater Project
Rain Garden
Research
Reduced Mowing
Policy
What is Stormwater
Runoff?
Streams & Ponds
Streams
Caring for
Backyard Streams
Enjoying
and Restoring Our Streams
Fairfax County
Plans to Protect Streams
How Healthy Is
Your Stream?
Little Pimmit Run Stream
Restoration
Perennial Stream
Mapping Completed
Small Streams
Help Clean Waterways
Urbanization
and Stream Health
Volunteers Show Trees
Help Streams
Ponds
Building a Farm or
Amenity Pond
Excess Aquatic
Vegetation in Your Pond?
Maintaining
Stormwater Ponds
Mason District
Stormwater Pond
Partners to
Rehabilitate Pohick Dams
Protecting a
Backyard Pond
Understanding Stormwater Ponds
Soil & Erosion
Can Soil
Reduce Global Warming?
Erosion and
Sediment Control
Ground Penetrating
Radar
Living
Soil
Medicines from
the Soil
Pamunkey: State Soil of
Virginia
Phytoremediation:
Plants & Polluted Soil
Retaining
Nutrients in Your Soil
Soil Formation
and Classification
Soil Survey
Update
Soil Test for
Fertility
What’s to Blame for
Accelerated Erosion?
Pollution & Litter
Cigarette Butts
Pollute
Drinking Smart:
Bottled Water or Tap?
E. coli Monitoring on Four Mile
Run
Emerging Contaminants
Heavy Metal
Pollution
Household Hazardous
Waste Disposal
Litter in Our
Storm Drain System
Picking Up Pet
Waste
Snow Aftermath:
Trees, Sand and Salt
Top 10
Recycling Tips
Toxic Cleaners,
Alternatives
Watershed
Knowledge Low
Where Does
Wastewater Water Go?
What Is a
Watershed?
Stewardship & Conservation
10 Ways to Protect
Drinking Water
Car Washing the Right
Way
Conservation
Easements
Encroachment
Threatens Parks
Fairfax County Rain Barrel
Workshops
Faith &
Sustainability in Mount Vernon
Identify & Prevent
Pollution
Limiting Lyme
Disease - Naturally?
Only Rain
Down the Storm Drain!
Student
Opportunities
Watershed
Protection at Schools
Energy Conservation and Green Building
Building with
Green Techniques
Energy Fair:
Geothermal and Solar
Fostering Home
Energy Savings
Global
Path to Sustainable Development.
Here Comes the
Electric Car
ReBuild: Green
Building & Green Jobs
Solar: Local
Efforts
Waste to Energy
Reprinting of material from Conservation Currents is
encouraged. Please give credit as follows:
"Reprinted from Conservation Currents, Northern Virginia
Soil & Water Conservation District."
Past Issues
Past issues of Conservation Currents are available for selected volumes (PDF).
Volume 40 (FY 2013) • Winter 2013 •
Volume 39 (FY 2012) • Fall 2011 • Winter-Spring 2012 • Summer 2012 •
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