I would certainly recommend that the federal government adopt a similar approach. We're fundamentally a water management agency, but a long time ago folks recognized that you cannot manage water effectively without understanding what's happening on the landscape. That's why we do things like plant trees. Runoff from a farm field that's been fully cultivated can be of a much different quality than runoff from a forest, or a farm field that's been put under conservation tillage. We think that the two have to be considered together, and through our water management planning, we work with both water and land. If you try to separate the two, you won't help either one of them.
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