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NRCS Illinois volunteer Charles Curry distributes school supplies to youngsters from Second Street Elementary School 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.
 

oysters from Wellfleet Harbor, Massachusettes2005 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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ariel view of contour plantingUp 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.
 

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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.

 

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Afghanistan pine windbreak protecting farmstead from blowing soil off cotton field -- photo courtesy NRCS Knox City, Texas, Plant Materials CenterTexas 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.
 

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