TY - JOUR T1 - How are soil erosion control programs working? JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 254 LP - 260 VL - 48 IS - 4 AU - Jeffrey Zinn Y1 - 1993/07/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/48/4/254.abstract N2 - HOW effective are the erosion control programs enacted in 1985 and amended in 1990? Are they working? Assessing how conditions have changed and what has been accomplished will be critical fodder to feed into national policy debates in 1995 over the future of the Consecution Reserve, Conservation Compliance, and Sodbuster Programs, as well as legislative debate on related topics, such as reauthorization of the Clean Water Act. Kansas City revisited Since Congress was relatively silent, or at least not specific, on expectations for these new programs, an alternative place to start is to revisit presentations from the last national forum on this subject sponsored by SWCS almost five years ago. At that time CRP was more than half way to its goal with more than 23 million acres enrolled in five signups, and compliance debate was still centered around erosion control criteria and other implementation questions. The organizers of that meeting had the foresight to devode one of the sessions to monitoring and evaluation … ER -