| July 2003: |
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Met with State NRCS Personnel in Bozeman, Montana to explain AMPP program.
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| August 2003: |
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AMPP announced and cooperating landowners, ranchers and irrigators
contacted for participation in the program. Presented AMPP program details to
Conservation District Boards in Custer, Big Horn, and Rosebud County. AMPP
scientists present at Eastern Montana Fair in Miles City, Montana to sign-up
cooperators and answer questions about program.
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| September - October 2003: |
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Finished signing-up cooperators. Field sampling
completed for the initial testing to build baseline data.. Twenty-five fields sampled in
the Tier 1 program. Sixteen fields sampled in the Tier 2 program including dryland,
flood and sprinkler irrigated fields and, for comparison, fields irrigated with other
water sources.
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| November 2003: |
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Presented details of initial sampling on “Berg in the Morning”
radio show and at the Montana Salinity Control Association’s “Coalbed Methane
Forum” during the Montana Association of Conservation Districts’ annual meeting
in Billings, Montana.
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| December 2003: |
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Results of the initial testing publicly available on Energy Labs, Inc. web site.
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| January 2004: |
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Baseline Tier 1 and Tier 2 monitoring results were presented at the
annual meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society in Billings, Montana.
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| March 2004: |
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AMPP web site launched. Delivered soil test results to cooperators,
reviewed results, and adjusted cropping and fertilizer recommendations for 2004.
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| April 2004: |
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Spring monitoring event completed - 14 fields sampled in Tier 2
program. Tier 3 field plot study initiated and soil sampling performed.
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| May 2004: |
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Tier 3 plots established and crops planted.
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| June 2004: |
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AMPP program details and results presented at CBM Fair in Gillette, Wyoming.
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| August 2004: |
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First complete year of Tier 2 monitoring results were presented at the
Coalbed Natural Gas conference in Laramie, Wyoming.
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| September 2004: |
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Completed harvest of Tier 3 field test plots for first growing season.
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| October 2004: |
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Fourteen fields sampled during ongoing Tier 2 program. Twenty-four
fields assessed as part of ongoing Tier 1 agronomic consulting program.
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| December 2004: |
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Presented AMPP results to Rosebud Creek Drainage Task Force
meeting in Lame Deer, Montana.
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| March 2005: |
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Met with cooperators to review soil test results and adjust 2005
cropping recommendations. Presented AMPP results to Custer County and Big
Horn County Conservation Districts’ monthly meetings.
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| April 2005: |
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Crops established in Tier 3 plots for 2005 growing season.
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| June 2005: |
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AMPP results presented at CBM Fair in Gillette, Wyoming.
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| September 2005: |
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Completed harvest of Tier 3 Field test plots for second growing season.
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| October 2005: |
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Fourteen fields sampled during ongoing Tier 2 program. Twenty-four
fields assessed as part of ongoing Tier 1 agronomic consulting program. Tier 3 test
plots also soil sampled.
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| December 2005: |
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AMPP Executive Summary Report completed and submitted to
Montana Board of Environmental Review.
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| August 2006: |
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2006 Progress Report prepared and released summarizing results of the first three years of testing.
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