More conservation acres for grouse; new veterinary med building at WSU
Washington Ag Today October 21, 2010 Part of the Conservation Reserve Program is State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement, or SAFE. And the USDA has allocated an additional 25-thousand acres for Douglas County Washington for the Sage-Grouse and Sharp-tailed Grouse SAFE initiative. Local producers have already offered 38-thousand acres to voluntarily preserve and restore habitat and provide additional benefits for sage-grouse. The SAFE program is administered by the Farm Service Agency. A groundbreaking ceremony was held earlier this month in Pullman for the new Veterinary Medical Research Building at Washington State University. The 77-thousand plus square foot building will allow researchers to work in new state-of-the-art labs and quarantines space for their research. College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Bryan Slinker says the building has been in various planning stages for about 20 years. Slinker: “Finally coming to fruition and it is the kind of research space those faculty need to really take the next step in their research program evolution and moving the college ahead strongly and in so doing help the university achieve its research goals.” The Veterinary Medicine Research Building is the third building to be built in the Research and Education Complex to the east of Martin Stadium. Estimated construction cost is 55-58 million dollars with a total project cost of 96 million. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net. ?
