Nebraska envirothon policy questions with 100% correct answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Nebraska envirothon policyNatural resource districts are arranged around... - correct answer Watersheds There are ... Nebraska counties - correct answer 93 ... % of land area is agricultural - correct answer 93% (45.5 million acres) Nebraska has the ... irrigated land area in the U.S - correct answer Highest ... arces of range/pasturelnd 1/2 of it in the Sandhills - correct answer 23 million The Nebraska NRD motto is - correct answer Protecting lives, protecting property, protecting the future. LB - 1357 - correct answer passed in 1969 to establish 24 natural resource districts- actually formed in 1972. In 1989, merged two of the districts (Middle Missouri & Papio) giving us the current 23 NRD's Districts are established around water sheds, the ... system of its kind in the United States (13 river basins) - correct answer Only NRD's are funded through ... - correct answer Local taxes They have ... area os responibility - correct answer 12 Tall grass prairie is ... - correct answer 20% Sandhills/sandsage prairie is ... - correct answer 30% Mixed grass prairie is ... - correct answer 30% Short grass prairie is ... - correct answer 18% Wetlands is ... - correct answer ~ 3% Forest is ... - correct answer ~ 2% Nebraska has lost over ... acres of wetlands over the last 140 years (about ... total) - correct answer 1 million / 35% ... of Nebraskas threatened and endangered species rely on wetlands - correct answer 50% Wetlands function to ... - correct answer Absorb water (natural flood control) and purify water A permit is required by any ... entities prior to any action that would alter a wetland - correct answer private(individuals), commercial(business/corporation), or public(government) "First in time first in right" rule aka prior appropriation water rights says that ... - correct answer The first person to take a quantity of water from a source for a beneficial use has the right to continue to use that quantity for said use If water is unappropriated: highest priority goes to domestic use, then agriculture, then others such as manufacturing, public power, etc. These rights issued by Neb. Dept. of Natural Resources(DNR) Water rights ... be cancelled - correct answer Can Water ... be transferred from on basin to the other - correct answer Can "Correlative rights" limits to reasonable amount(share with neighbors) - correct answer Landowners can drill wells to access aquifers for beneficial purposes but are subject to management by the public Recognizes that pumping water at one point can draw water from surrounding area and affect others So, must 1st apply for a permit from local NRD to drill wells Legislation (by Unicameral in 1957) requires registration of all irrigation wells LB - 108 - correct answer Recognizes the connection between ground and surface waters; rules for the sale of groundwater LB - 962 - correct answer Require DNR. To conduct annual assessments of water balance in each water shed LB - 1106 - correct answer requires NRD's to develop groundwater management plans(quality and quantity) LB - 1003 - correct answer created a "water policy task force" to discuss and review management of ground and surface waters LB - 284 - correct answer Nebraska Chemigation Act: rules related to equipment and use of irrigation systems that are used to apply chemicals LB - 483 - correct answer limits development of irrigated acres on land surrounding surface water resources Kansas sued nebraska claiming Nebraska had overused water from the ... in 2005 & 2006 - correct answer Republican river Based on original pact from 1943 stating water allocation from Republican river = ... to Nebraska, ... to Kansas, ... to Colorado - correct answer 49% / 40% / 11% U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Feb. 2015 that Neb. owed Kansas ... due to losses incurred by Kansas farmers and from Neb.'s gains as a result of the overuse - correct answer 5.5 million CERCLA or "Superfund" - correct answer Nebraska LB962 - correct answer Nebraska is an Otoe word meaning ... - correct answer Flat water Sandhill streams are known for their ... flow - correct answer Steady Nebraska rivers' headwaters ... - correct answer Platte R. in Colorado, Niobrara R. in Wyoming, Missouri R. in Montana, Republican R. in Colorado The Nebraska NRD had been around for ... - correct answer 45 years