The Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment was established to coordinate and enhance research, extension and teaching activities pertaining to environmental issues related to agriculture.

Our Mission: To develop and deliver knowledge that helps Kansans balance 'utilization' and 'protection' of natural resources today and into the future. 

• Contact Kansas' Watershed Specialists

• WRAPS Reports:

• Upper Arkansas - Lake McKinney Watershed
  Upper Arkansas - Dodge City Watershed
  Upper Arkansas - Pickerel Watershed

• Big Creek and Smoky Hill Watersheds (PDF)
       ***New TMDLs for Big Creek/Middle Smoky Hill Watersheds

• Little Ark Watershed (PDF)

• Fall River Watershed (PDF)  

• Presentations from 2009 Water and the Future of Kansas Conference
  
  

  Sedimentation in our Reservoirs White Papers 2008
  *View the publications

• Presentations from the September 2008 Biofuels Symposium

   *  Constructing Local Ownership:  An Assessment of ethanol plant ownership in Iowa

  *  Ethanol Impact on Kansas Grain Production
  

  *  The Food Price Crisis
  

  *  Do Biofuels Reduce Greenhouse Emissions?
  

  *  Next Generation Biofuels:  Future Directions and Challenges

  *  ICM:  The Energy of Innovation
  

  *  Economic Impacts of Biofuels Production
  

  *  Conflicting Environmental Claims:  Analysis of the Media Discourse Surrounding Biofuels Development in Russell, KS
  

  *  Issues Surrounding Cellulosic Ethanol
  

  *  Food vs. Feed vs. Fuel

  *  Utilization of Distiller's Grains:  Impacts for Cattle Feeders

  *  Irrigation Resources to Grow Biofuel:  A National Overview

  *  The Biofuels Revolution?  The Promises and Perils of Biofuels Development for Rural Communities in Kansas