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Who We Are
Updated
09/06/2006
Helping People Help the Land
With the mission of “Helping People Help the Land,” the Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) provides products and services that enable people to
be good stewards of the Nation’s soil, water, and related natural resources on
non-Federal lands. With our help, people are better able to conserve, maintain,
or improve their natural resources. As a result of our technical and financial
assistance, land managers and communities take a comprehensive approach to the
use and protection of natural resources in rural, suburban, urban, and
developing areas.
A Partnership Approach
Since the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, NRCS has worked with conservation districts
and others throughout the U.S. to help landowners, as well as Federal, State,
Tribal, and local governments and community groups.
NRCS has six mission goals: high quality, productive soils; clean and
abundant water; healthy plant and animal communities; clean air; an adequate
energy supply; and working farms and ranchlands.
To achieve these goals, the Agency implements these strategies:
• Cooperative conservation: seeking and promoting cooperative efforts to achieve
conservation goals.
• Watershed approach: providing information and assistance to encourage and
enable locally-led, watershed-scale conservation.
• Market-based approach: facilitating the growth of market-based opportunities
that encourage the private sector to invest in conservation on private lands.
Conservation Assistance
Our locally-based NRCS staff works directly with farmers, ranchers, and others,
to provide technical and financial conservation assistance. Our guiding
principles are service, partnership, and technical excellence.
NRCS helps landowners develop conservation plans and provides advice on the
design, layout, construction, management, operation, maintenance, and evaluation
of the recommended, voluntary conservation practices.
NRCS activities include farmland protection, upstream flood prevention,
emergency watershed protection, urban conservation, and local community projects
designed to improve social, economic, and environmental conditions.
NRCS conducts soil surveys, conservation needs assessments, and the National
Resources Inventory to provide a basis for resource conservation planning
activities and to provide an accurate assessment of the condition of the
Nation’s private lands.
As the leading source of technology as it applies to natural resource
conservation on private lands, NRCS develops technical guides and other
Web-based tools to help enhance natural resource conservation efforts.
For More Information
For More Information
Please contact NRCS at your local USDA Service Center, listed in phone
directories under U.S. Government, or visit our Web site at:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov.
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