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RC&D Coordinator “Walks-A-Mile” in Yuma Farmer’s Boots
Through the
Walk-A-Mile in My Boots program, Yuma farmer John Boelts hosted Parker,
Arizona, NRCS Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) coordinator Danny
Markus at the 3,600-acre Coronation Peak Ranches that John helps manage. Both
have benefited from the collaboration. “I knew NRCS had rural and community
development, but I had no idea how it worked,” said Boelts. “I’ve gotten some
ideas, and it’s got me thinking in other areas.”
Restoring
Rhode Island’s Songbird Habitat
Older Rhode Islanders who say there seem to be fewer songbirds than they
remember while growing up are right. But with
NRCS Wildlife Habitat
Incentives Program funding this situation may be turning around. "We
want to bring back the openness of the landscapes," said Rhode Island NRCS
biologist Andy Lipsky. "We want to bring back the meadowlands and
thickets.
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NRCS
Provides Learning Experience For Girl Scouts
NRCS staff from the Soil Survey and Legislative and Public Affairs divisions
recently participated in a Girl Scout “Linking Girls to the Land” program at the
National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, in northern Virginia.
More than 1,000 Girl Scouts and their families attended the day-long event.
NRCS
Engineer Profiled in ASABE Engineering Careers Book
A new book,
Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers, features profiles
of more than 200 women engineers including Minnesota NRCS hydraulic engineer
Sonia Massell Jacobsen.
USDA Provides Up To $1.7 Million for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Improvements
USDA will provide up to $1.7 million for competitive grants to develop and
evaluate technological tools for fish and wildlife habitat improvements.
Proposals for grants will be accepted from state and local governments,
federally recognized tribes and non-governmental organizations through April 27,
2006.
Find out more...
NRCS news release:
“USDA Provides Up to $1.7 Million for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Improvements”
(March 24, 2006)
Announcement of Funding For Wildlife Grants
Wildlife Habitat Incentives
Program
March
is Women's History Month
The 2006 theme, Women: Builders of Communities and Dreams, honors the spirit
of possibility and hopes set in motion by generations of women in their creation
of communities and their encouragement of dreams.
Find out more...
Presidential Proclamation for Women’s History Month 2006
National Women’s History Project
Executive Women in Government
Ash Seed Project
NRCS plant materials specialist Dave Burgdorf and NRCS
Rose Lake, Michigan,
Plant Materials Center (PMC) Manager John Leif are working to
preserve
ash trees in the ash tree regions of the U.S. through the National Ash
Tree Seed Collection Initiative. Although the seed collections began in
2005 the National Ash Tree Seed Collection Initiative began in 2006.
Kalven
Trice Honored by Ducks Unlimited
Arkansas NRCS State Conservationist Kalven Trice was recently presented with
Ducks Unlimited (DU) Federal employee Wetland Conservation Achievement Award at
the 71st North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Columbus,
Ohio. "I’m honored to be selected for this award and I accept it on behalf of
all Natural Resources Conservation Service employees and the landowners in
Arkansas," said Trice.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its
programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age,
disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental
status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs,
reprisal, or because all or a part of an individual's income is derived from any
public assistance program. (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 to USDA, Director, Office of Civil
Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call
(800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity
provider and employer.
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