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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm (504 social interactions)
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SPOKANE, Wash., (Aug. 10, 2009) — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced that it will begin continuous sign-up for the revamped Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) today, August 10, with the first sign-up period cutoff scheduled for September 30. CSP encourages agricultural and forestry producers to maintain existing conservation activities and adopt additional ones on their operations.
The NRCS administers CSP, a voluntary conservation program designed to encourage agricultural and forestry producers to adopt additional activities and to improve, maintain and manage existing ones. Eligible lands include cropland, grassland, prairie, improved pastureland, rangeland, non-industrial private forestland—a new land use for the program—and agricultural land under the jurisdiction of an American Indian Tribe. Individual landowners, legal entities, and American Indian Tribes may be eligible to apply for CSP assistance.
The program will be offered to producers nationwide through continuous sign-ups. Agricultural and forestry producers must submit their applications by Sept. 30 to be considered for funding in the first ranking period. Congress capped the annual acreage enrollment at 12,769,000 acres for each fiscal year nationwide.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 11:00 am (963 social interactions)
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Pacific/Wahkiakum Counties - As you travel to your summer destinations or just around the block, the Washington State Patrol would like to give you a couple things to think about to help keep everyone safe on our roadways.
During this time of year, our roadways get very crowded with cars, trucks pulling boats, trailers, motor homes, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. We have already had five fatal collisions in Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties this year and four of those were caused by operator errors. Two of the fatal collisions involved motorcycles. The causes include impaired driving, excessive speed, falling asleep to not knowing the equipment and its capabilities.
Know your vehicle. Understand your vehicle’s size compared to the lane width and know when you need to take a turn wide or how much you need to slow down for corners and curves. Think about what you will have to do if there are bicycles riding down the edge of the lane (They do have a right to ride on the right edge of the lane.)
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 10:31 am (619 social interactions)
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Aberdeen, WA - The Aberdeen Police department reports a disturbing trend in vehicle thefts which seems to be targeting Toyota Owners. Aberdeen Police Seargent Art Laur reports that over the past two week period
they have seen six toyota vehicles stolen, with the two most recent occuring over the last weekend.
Laure said that in at least one case, the theft seemed well thought out; "in one instance it appears that the person who stole the truck actually followed the vehicle into the parking lot of a business, waited for the person to enter the business, then walked in behind him, grabbed the [vehicle] and left."
Initially the thefts seemed to be targetting toyota pickups, however Laur said they have seen some Toyota cars stolen recently as well. The Hoquiam Police department reports 4 vehicle thefts total, since June 1st, only one of which was a Toyota, a 1979 Pickup.
A 2006 study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners places the 1989 Toyota Camry as the 3rd most stolen vehicle in the United States, behind the 1991 Honda Accord and the 1995 Honda Civic.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 10:06 am (1105 social interactions)
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Grays Harbor County -Between August 14 and September 7 extra DUI patrols will traverse Grays Harbor County roadways in search of impaired drivers.
Participating in this summer’s Drive Hammered, Get Nailed enforcement campaign are the Aberdeen, Cosmopolis, Elma, Hoquiam, McCleary, Montesano and Ocean Shores Police Departments, the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol, with the support of the Grays Harbor Target Zero Traffic Safety Task Force.
There are numerous myths surrounding impaired driving, chief of which is that one must have consumed alcohol in order to be arrested for DUI. Drivers can become impaired by the use of illegal, prescription, and even over-the-counter drugs, or some combination of these, with or without the presence of alcohol.
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