Archive for February 2007
- New Mexico Woody Landscape Manual
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Plant information to be used in interactive, searchable database
By Leeann DeMouche
New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) current landscape horticulture and garden design courses on ornamental plants will be receiving a new online manual for students in August 2007, sponsored by the Rio Grande Basin Initiative.
For the past year Dr. Rolston St. Hilaire, [...] - RGBI Conference Reminder
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The annual Rio Grande Basin Initiatives Conference will be held at South Padre Island, Texas, May 14 to 17, 2007 at the Radisson Resort.
This will be another joint meeting of Texas and New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Stations and Cooperative Extension, Texas State University System and the University of Texas at Austin. Early registration and [...] - Faces of RGBI
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Economists can save you money
Economists play an integral part in RGBI by working to save irrigation districts (IDs), municipal water suppliers, stakeholders and farmers money. Spreadsheet models, surveys, workshops and publications are just a few of the tools produced by Texas and New Mexico RGBI economists to determine effects on the cost of delivering water [...] - Award Winning Project
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RGBI receives national recognition
Writer: Danielle Supercinski, dmsupercinski@ag.tamu.edu, 979.845.2781
Contact: Bill Harris, bl-harris@tamu.edu, 979.845.1851
The Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin project received a national award for its integrated activities for water resources.
Also known as the Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI), the project won the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension [...]
