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School
Supplies Reach Grammar School Hurricane Victims
Mississippi school children in the hurricane-ravaged area of Bay St. Louis
received an early holiday gift thanks in part to NRCS volunteers who traveled
nearly 1,000 miles one way to deliver a donated bookmobile bus filled with
computers, textbooks, binders, and other school supplies.
2005 EQIP Pilot for Shellfish Aquaculture a Success
In a unique pilot program under the NRCS
Environmental Quality
Incentives Program (EQIP), Cape Cod's shellfish growers in Massachusetts were eligible for
cost-share assistance on conservation practices for the first time in 2005. Some
$247,000 in cost-share funding was provided through 21 contracts with aquaculturists who raise scallops, oysters and clams on grants in Barnstable
Harbor and Wellfleet Harbor.
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Up
to $4 Million Available for Cooperative Conservation Partnership
Initiative―Proposals Due March 7, 2006
NRCS announces the release of up to $4 million dollars for the Cooperative
Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI). This nationwide competition fosters
the development of conservation partnerships to focus technical and financial
resources on conservation priorities in watersheds and airsheds of special
significance.
Outreach
to Our Constituents
We are committed to ensuring that our programs and services are accessible to
all our customers, fairly and equitably, with emphasis on reaching underserved
farmers and ranchers.
Texas
Windbreaks
"The only thing blocking the wind between Canada and Texas is a four-wire
fence…" Farmers and ranchers in West Texas have made that statement, which
refers to the persistent winds that blow in the late winter and spring.
During the 1930s and 1940s, NRCS recognizing a need to help lessen soil erosion
by blowing winds, started working with landowners to establish large multi-row
field windbreaks. During those early years landowners planted whatever they
could get, and if it was thought to be adapted to the area, it was planted.
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,
1400and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800)
795-3272 (voice)
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
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