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Drought Resources Linda Fischer Regional Extension Education Director
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Drought Meteorological – precipitation below normal values Agricultural- inadequate soil moisture for crops or livestock Hydrological – surface & subsurface water significantly below normal Socioeconomic – physical water shortage begins to effect daily life
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National Drought Mitigation Center, http://drought.unl.edu http://drought.unl.edu
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Drought Resources
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http://eden.lsu.edu
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A collaborative multi-state effort by the land-grant universities’ Cooperative Extension Services and the National Sea Grant College Program. –Nearly 300 members –Representing 50 states and 3 U.S. territories And… Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands What is EDEN?
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Fourteen specialists representing their universities NEIL Drought Team Drought NEIL Chair: Kim Cassel SDSU 605-696-7873 kim.cassel@sdstate.edu
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NEIL Drought Team interdisciplinary team of Extension Specialists and Extension Educators working together to develop sustainable EDEN and EDEN eXtension research based drought resources. Member of National VOAD & Wildfire Task Force
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eXtension Drought Resources Link from EDEN home page to eXtension Sharing of Drought resource publications Links to other organizations involved with drought disaster
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Drought Preparedness Continued Drought will impact beyond Agriculture Drought Capacity Building for Communities –A multi-agency, multi-organization effort to guide communities to tackle tough drought issues. –Involves a local leadership team
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Drought Preparedness Drought Community Capacity Building –Each community assess it’s ability to respond & recover from long term drought –Provide community with information about drought recovery, mitigation and prevention, the planning process –Communities know best how to help themselves –Assess Community Vulnerabilities & Assets
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Drought Resources ISU Extension & Outreach website: www.extension.iastate.edu www.extension.iastate.edu EDEN Drought Page http://eden.lsu.edu/Topics/Hazards/Drought http://eden.lsu.edu/Topics/Hazards/Drought National Drought Mitigation Center: http://drought.unl.edu/Home.aspx http://drought.unl.edu/Home.aspx
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