NRCS provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.

Subscribe to NRCS This Week | NRCS This Week Articles Index | NRCS This Week Archives | Contact Us | Where to Get Information | eNotes from NACD | Events and Activities | TSP Express (Requires Adobe Acrobat.)

A Voice for the Wildthings
The brake lines on their truck were cut, their dogs killed, fences destroyed, and they’ve been shot at. Such occurrences have unfortunately been part of Nova Kim and Les Hook’s lives – two Vermont wildcrafters whose plea before the State legislature to “save the wild things” has made them un-popular with those who oppose the movement to limit clear cutting Vermont’s forests.

Saco River Makeover
NRCS; the Oxford County Soil & Water Conservation District in Oxford, Maine; US Forest Service (USFS); the Nature Conservancy’s Saco River Project; the Saco River Corridor Commission; and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service worked together to plant 2,000 willow and dogwood trees along the banks of the Saco River.
 

Connect to NRCS' State News, Newsroom, News Releases, and New Release Archives!

First USDA 2007 Farm Bill Forum Announced — July 7 in Nashville, Tennessee
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has announced the first Farm Bill Forum and topics on which USDA is seeking input from America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural residents regarding development of the 2007 Farm Bill.
 

Revision 1 of National Range and Pasture Handbook Released
The National Range and Pasture Handbook (NRPH ) contains information to assist NRCS conservationists in providing technical assistance in all phases of the planning and application process. The NRPH provide procedures in support of NRCS policy for the inventory, analysis, treatment, and management of grazing land resources. Revision 1 of the NRPH was recently released.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's TARGET Center at 202-720-2600 (voice and TDD). 

To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call 202-720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.