Watershed-based management strategies for the prevention and abatement of polluted agricultural runoff

Abstract

An increase in the average size of individual livestock production operations coupled with local and regional concentrations of these operations tend to increase negative environmental impacts in many watersheds. Environmental compliance strategies developed by the Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER) can be applied to reduce the negative impacts caused by livestock production and other types of agricultural activities. Further, the Institute's "planned intervention/micro-watershed approach" may provide the foundation for comprehensive solutions to environmental problems within a broad ecosystem management context.