Volume 17 Issue 2 February
Our cover story this month provides an opportunity to celebrate the groundbreaking of the permanent replacement of Tunnel No. 2, a century-old irrigation tunnel linking Wyoming’s Goshen Irrigation District (GID) and Nebraska’s Gering–Fort Laramie…
Volume 17 Issue 1 January
Our cover story this month introduces readers to the Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement Project (NCORPE), a collaborative venture of four natural resources districts aimed at maintaining compliance with the multistate Republican…
Volume 16 Issue 10 Nov/Dec
n order to better protect water quality and quantity and strengthen long-term resource management, the State of Nebraska has made the bold move of merging two existing departments, the Department of Environment and Energy and the…
Volume 16 Issue 9 October
Nebraska Extension’s Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) program banks on a powerful yet simple principle: Allowing producers to test out new management methods in a low-risk…
Volume 16 Issue 8 September
Nebraska probably has the densest concentration of center pivots on earth, but it is unusual for those pivots to be irrigating pasture. In our cover story this month, we speak with southwestern Nebraska rancher Jacob Miller, whose pivot-supported…
Volume 16 Issue 7 Jul-Aug
In our cover story this month, we interview Congressman Adrian Smith of Nebraska’s Third Congressional District. A champion for the state’s irrigators, Congressman Smith emphasizes…
Volume 16 Issue 6 June
In our cover story this month, we hear how five natural resources districts (NRDs) teamed up to secure water rights belonging to the Nebraska Public Power District and used for hydroelectric generation, transferring…
Volume 16 Issue 5 May
In this month’s cover story, we speak with Nick Simonson, the assistant general manager of the Lower Republican Natural Resources District, and Joslynn VanDerslice, the water resources manager of the…
Volume 16 Issue 4 April
In this month’s cover story, we look at how the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District is responding to the devastating floods that affected its service area in 2019. In our conversation with General…
Volume 16 Issue 3 March
To figure out what was going on underground, the Middle Republic Natural Resources District took to the air. Working with Aqua Geo Frameworks and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the district carried out…