A Partnership for Conservation
ALABAMA
Residue management practices
ALASKA District Conservationist Joanne Kuykendall and a summer employee test soil moisture
ARIZONA
Little Colorado River riparian enhancement project
ARKANSAS
Assisting with conservation planning
CALIFORNIA
Earth Team Volunteer Nereida Henderson assists in conservation education
CARIBBEAN AREA
Mulching and gabions
COLORADO
A concrete, lined, and sealed delivery ditch is used in irrigation
CONNECTICUT
Young volunteers plant a riparian buffer to repair a flood damaged meadow
DELAWARE
Ducks enjoying a newly created wetland
FLORIDA
Urban mobile Irrigation team
GEORGIA
Streambank stabilization
HAWAII
Windbreaks used to protect taro patches
IDAHO
Providing technical assistance to our clients is what we do best
ILLINOIS
Native grasses and prairie plants provide wildlife habitat
INDIANA
Windbreak of conifer trees
IOWA
A soil conservationist discusses maintenance needs of a grass filter strip
KANSAS
A farmstead protected by windbreaks and surrounding cropland is treated with terraces
KENTUCKY
A repaired water crossing
LOUISIANA
Earth Team volunteers transplant native plants from a roadside to a restored wetland
MAINE
Ducktrap River channel restoration project
MARYLAND
Reviewing construction plans on a wetland
MASSACHUSETTS
NRCS and district employees discuss conservation options with a local farmer
MICHIGAN
A soil scientist examines a soil survey map
MINNESOTA
Rotational grazing
MISSISSIPPI
Assistance in improving forage grasses
MISSOURI
Soil scientists examine a soil sample
MONTANA
Wetland restoration project
NEBRASKA
An NRCS employee uses an experimental process to measure nitrogen
NEVADA
Ditch lining promotes water conservation
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Students undergo soils training
NEW JERSEY
Prescribed burning of a WHIP grasslands site
NEW MEXICO
NRCS specialists provide grazing recommendations for a ranch
New York
Woodlands provide wildlife habitat
NORTH CAROLINA
An Earth Team volunteer assists homeowners with backyard conservation
NORTH DAKOTA
Field windbreaks help reduce wind erosion
OHIO
Global Positioning System technology helps NRCS deliver expert technical assistance
OKLAHOMA
Watershed rehabilitation
OREGON
NRCS employees and landowner discuss plantings along the Trask River
PACIFIC BASIN
Demonstration of a solar water distiller
PENNSYLVANIA
NRCS working with a landowner in Lancaster County to keep soils covered
RHODE ISLAND
Assessing the impact of erosion
SOUTH CAROLINA
Providing conservation technical assistance
SOUTH DAKOTA
Land judging
TENNESSEE
Conservation technical assistance
TEXAS
A NRCS District Conservationist checks water facility and fence lines for rotational grazing
UTAH
NRCS employees & partners install silt fences following a fire
Vermont
A managed grazing area
VIRGINIA
Reviewing conservation plan progress in Loudoun County
WASHINGTON
Strip cropping
WEST VIRGINIA
NRCS supports environmental education activities such as the Canon Envirothon
WISCONSIN
Crop rotation
WYOMING
NRCS staff were onsite within hours of a flood that devastated this small rural town
Secretary Veneman stands with African delegates and NRCS employees at the first Ministerial Conference and EXPO on Agricultural Science and Technology
Frank Lucas of NRCS and an Amish farmer discuss conservation plans
Chief Knight & Soil Conservationist Ciro LaPinto hold up the 2003 American Indian Heritage Month poster
President Bush signs the 2002 Farm Bill
Secretary Veneman and Chief Reed join other officials in Wisconsin for Earth Day 2002
Chief Bruce Knight and Kane County, Illinois, officials signed an agreement to protect nearly 690 acres of farmland
Under Secretary Mark Rey along with Colorado state and local officials at an Earth Day celebration
Technical Service Provider memorandum of understanding signing with the American Society of Agronomy
NACD top officers at Farm Bill signing with President Bush
Earth Team volunteers assist in the Canon Envirothon
Technical Service Provider memorandum of understanding signing with University of Tennessee
Krysta Harden, new NACD CEO, at a restored creek bank
NACD officers at Farm Bill signing with Secretary Veneman
Spec Campen, soil and water conservation district director and Earth Team volunteer
Volunteers help restore a stream bank in New Jersey
The CSP radio bridge with Secretary Veneman and Chief Knight
Young boy at the site of the New York American Patriot Garden project being built with assistance from NRCS
USDA Deputy Secretary Jim Moseley with Mississippi landowner George Morrison at FSA's Hardwood Timber Announcement
A Rhode Island volunteer assists with administrative tasks
Assistant Secretary Vernon Parker & Deputy Secretary Jim Moseley at Alcorn State University in Mississippi speaking to minority farmers
Herman Dungan, Jr.,MACD Endowment Fund, welcomes Marc Curtis, NACD,into the MACD Endowment Fund President's Club
The TSP kick off event at Jefferson Auditorium in Washington, DC
NACD President Gary Mast and Chief Executive Officer Ernie Shea
President Joe Cantu, National Association of RC&D Councils
Farmer Glyen Holmes gets NRCS advice on conservation techniques
Deputy Under Secretary Mack Gray speaks at the Ogonowski farmland dedication event
Chief Knight tours a continuous CRP buffer planting in northeast Kansas
Secretary Veneman at the New York Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) signing
NRCS' Gayle Norman and Oregon Association of Conservation Districts President Johnny Sundstrom
NRCS District Conservationist Osvaldo Longoria gives technical assistance to a local watermelon farmer
President Bush signs the Healthy Forest Initiative
Secretary Veneman helps kick off the Kentucky Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) partnership
National Association of State Conservation Agencies (NASCA) staff and members enjoy the Everglades
NASCA administrators at the Seminole Chief brand products facility in Florida
NACD First Vice President Billy Wilson giving a Farm Bill interview
Working Together, Getting the Job Done