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<DIV><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2>News from the Wild Farm Alliance</FONT> </DIV><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2>February 2006</FONT>
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<DIV>-- Biodiversity Conservation Guides for Organic Farmers and Certifiers</DIV>
<DIV>-- Farming with the Wild Forever: Using Agricultural Easements to Support Biodiversity</DIV>
<DIV>-- WFA Presentations This Winter Throughout the Country</DIV>
<DIV>-- Interview, Article, and Paper Posted to WFA Website</DIV>
<DIV>-- Case Study of California Farmer Who Catches the Hedgerow Bug</DIV>
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<P><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Greetings!</FONT></P>
<P>Welcome to the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) e-Newsletter, a publication advancing an agriculture that protects and restores wild Nature.</P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Biodiversity Conservation Guides for Organic Farmers and Certifiers
<DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</DIV></FONT><IMG title="" height=117 alt="" hspace=5 src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1101070238718/img/18.jpg?a=1101216774305" width=90 align=left vspace=5 border=0> While providing a range of farming practices that maintain and enhance biodiversity conservation on the farm and in the larger landscape, these downloadable guides offer assistance on how organic farmers and certifiers can address requirements in the USDA National Organic Program Rule. Although the guides are set up to parallel the recent biodiversity additions WFA helped place in the National Organic Standards Board’s Organic System Plan Template, they are useful for all farmers who want to conserve biodiversity as they integrate nature’s benefits into their operations.
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.lfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/resources/organic_BD.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.lfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fresources%2Forganic_BD.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Farming with the Wild Forever: Using Agricultural Easements to Support Biodiversity
<DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</DIV></FONT><IMG title="" height=67 alt="" hspace=5 src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1101070238718/img/15.jpg?a=1101216774305" width=90 align=left vspace=5 border=0> The latest in WFA’s series of briefing papers, this downloadable piece covers new ground, focusing specifically on ways to support biodiversity on farms and ranches, and in the surrounding landscape, by using conservation easements designed to promote and sustain active management of land for various agricultural purposes compatible with wild nature.
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.mfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/resources/briefing.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.mfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fresources%2Fbriefing.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>WFA Presentations This Winter Throughout the Country
<DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</DIV></FONT><IMG title="" height=67 alt="" hspace=5 src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1101070238718/img/17.jpg?a=1101216774305" width=89 align=left vspace=5 border=0> WFA staff and board members have joined a chef, farmers, researchers and others to address farming with the wild, food, organics and biodiversity, hedgerow plantings, soil microbiology, and native bee conservation at numerous meetings and conferences across the country. We’ve been at the Quivira Coalition's Conference in Albuquerque, NM; the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group's Conference in Louisville, KY; the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association's Conference in Kerrville, TX; the Ecological Farming Association's Conference in Pacific Grove, CA; the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's Conference in State College, PA; the Northeast Organic Farming Association-Vermont's Conference in Randolph, VT; and the California Certified Organic Farmers Conference in Sacramento, CA.
<P>Upcoming presentations will be made at the Independent Organic Inspectors Association's Advanced Training and the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference both in La Crosse, WI; and the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission Conference in Albuquerque, NM. </P>
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.mt5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/resources/news.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.mt5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fresources%2Fnews.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Interview, Article, and Paper Posted to WFA Website
<DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</DIV></FONT>– Interview with WFA’s Jo Ann Baumgartner and Yale Creek Ranch Manager Tim Franklin... – A Food Monolith (USDA Food Pyramid) Gets a Face-Lift. Commentary by Dana Jackson.. – Agroecology Versus Ecoagriculture: Balancing Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation with Social Equity. Commentary by Miguel Altieri.
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.nfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/resources/articles_inter.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.nfhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fresources%2Farticles_inter.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Case Study of California Farmer Who Catches the Hedgerow Bug
<DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</DIV></FONT><IMG title="" height=68 alt="" hspace=5 src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1101070238718/img/16.jpg?a=1101216774305" width=89 align=left vspace=5 border=0> My friend Lou Preston has caught the “hedgerow bug.” Lou is a winemaker and diversified organic farmer of substantial renown. He lives on a 125-acre vineyard in Sonoma County’s Dry Creek Valley that he and his wife Susan and their daughters have built into something extremely special over the past 30 years.
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.ot5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/what/index.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.ot5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fwhat%2Findex.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P>Together with farmers, conservationists and communities, we are creating more landscapes where farms use sustainable methods to grow healthful food and fiber while promoting biodiversity and protecting habitat for a broad range of native species. By farming with the wild, agriculture can provide wildlife habitat within its borders, and connections to wildlands beyond – through the creation of buffers and corridors that are permeable to the movements of animals and that help to link people with the land. </P>
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.pt5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.pt5bzobab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P>With your support, we can keep doing what we do best: serving as a voice for critical issues intersecting agriculture and conservation. </P>
<P><A title=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.ofhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http://www.wildfarmalliance.org/support/index.htm style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bf5e9sbab.0.ofhxatbab.54anoobab.647&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildfarmalliance.org%2Fsupport%2Findex.htm" shape=rect color="#0000FF">Read on...</A> </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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