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Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity

New Report: Challenges to Scaling RCPP
New report examines the challenges to administratively scaling the Regional Conservation Partnership Program

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not just in Iowa anymore!
A conversation about watershed partnerships in Kansas

The Golden Rules of Pay for Success Procurement

Maryland Forest Stewardship Disalignment Report
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination

Maryland opens application to purchase $25 million of PA, NY, & MD nutrient reductions
The Susquehanna River Basin Commission announced today the opening of its application for proposals offering cost-effective reductions of nutrient pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna watershed.

Maryland’s Conowingo Pay for Success Program Preliminary Information

New Paper: Procurement doesn’t need to be a choke point

Increasing the efficiency of land transactions

The Next NEXT Generation of Environmental Progress
What might environmental progress look like in 50 years?

EPIC 2023 Farm Bill Concepts
EPIC’s concepts to dramatically increase the pace and scale of conservation in the 2023 Farm Bill

Two New Iowa Communities Partnering with Farmers on Water Quality Goals
Mason City and Forest City sign innovative agreements to pay farmers to improve water quality.

New Paper: Purchasing Environmental Progress

Purchasing Environmental Progress

To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to make some little tweaks to some big programs
Third and final in a series, this blog explores how USDA can tweak existing programs to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Mapping Water Quality Improvement Opportunities in Iowa
A project to illustrate which watersheds and cities in Iowa are closest to meeting their nutrient reduction goals from municipal point sources

To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to embrace conservation tech
Second in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use emerging technologies to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.

To spend $20 billion, USDA needs to swing for the fences on environmental outcomes
First in a series, this blog explores how USDA can use outcomes purchasing to speed up delivery of conservation money in the Inflation Reduction Act.

NASDA Action Item Encouraging a Clean Water Outcomes Matching Program
Action item approved by NASDA encouraging a Clean Water Outcome Matching Program in the next Farm Bill

One Month Left: Clean Water Commerce Applications
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