Tag: H2Ohio
Grants available for conservation ditch program in Ohio
The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced $5 million available in grants for a statewide conservation ditch program.
Wetland saved by H2Ohio in Portage County
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources celebrated the Bird Family Bog Rehabilitation Project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, June 23.
H2Ohio project completed in Medina County
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Medina County Parks celebrated the completion of the new Litchfield Wetland Restoration Project.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources receives award for wetlands work
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ work as part of the H2Ohio Initiative earned the 2023 Wetland Conservation Achievement Award.
Awards given for dedication to water quality
The Ohio Department of Agriculture honored the Putnam County Soil and Water Conservation District, Sunrise Cooperative and Ed Crawford.
OACI seeing new faces through farmer certification program
As H2Ohio rolls out, Ohioans are watching to see what kind of impact it has on the state’s water quality. To help measure that, the OACI is establishing baselines for conservation practices and ways to improve at both the farm level, and in watersheds.
Ohio watershed offers baseline for farmers’ conservation practices
The Ohio Agriculture Conservation Initiative offered a glimpse of exactly what conservation practices look like in the Lower Maumee watershed with an assessment survey report.
Researchers talk algae blooms, water quality programs
Researchers and leaders in both the Ohio Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency discussed updates on harmful algal bloom research, and water quality programs in the state at the Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science virtual conference Sept. 8.
New bill would ban new CAFOs in Ohio’s Maumee River watershed
Two Toledo-area Democrats introduced a bill that would prohibit new concentrated animal feeding operations from being built in the Maumee River watershed unless certain water quality goals are met.
H2Ohio program expands to 10 more counties
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda announced July 6 that H2Ohio’s farmer incentive program is expanding into 10 additional counties in the Western Lake Erie Basin.
