This five year no-till project is to introduce, develop & maintain a successful no-till farming program for Steve Wolf. Parts of the farm are located north of Pomeroy in the center of the Pataha Watershed in a 16-18 inch rainfall area. The field near Pomeroy consists of soil that is an AoD (Asotin silt loam) on 7 to 25% slope. The field drains into the Pataha Creek inside the city limits of Pomeroy. The other field at Peola is a LaC (Larkin silt loan) on 0 to 7% slope. The project will demonstrate that a long term, no-till program is effective, efficient & economically feasible in reducing erosion. The project will consist of the no-till seeding of part of a field totaling 190.2 acres of cropland. This project will cover a period of 5 years with the same fields being seeded using a no-till farming system. An annual payment of $29 per acre per year will be made to Mr. Wolf to help offset the initial costs of implementing the program & reduce part of the financial risk that he will be taking. Numerous documents show that no-till is next to grass in reducing erosion. This practice can reduce erosion by 95% over intensive tillage systems currently being used by a majority of the farmers in Garfield County. A reduction in erosion from the cropland will lead to less sedimentation of the stream. An ongoing monitoring program will correlate this no-till program to sediment reduction. Crop rotations, input costs, and yields will be monitored by Mr. Wolf and the district.