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Connecticut

field in the town of Lebanon Green, ConnecticutTown Designates Important Local Soils
The Town of Lebanon has become the first municipality in Connecticut to officially recognize and designate local important farmland soils.  “Identification of important farmland soils is useful in the management and maintenance of the resource base that supports the productive capacity of American agriculture,” said Connecticut NRCS State Conservationist Margo L. Wallace.

Georgia

Longview Farm in the Senoia community of Coweta County, Georgia (NRCS photo -- click to enlaregeLongview Farm is Conservation Pioneer in Coweta County
Longview Farm owner David Brown is a conservation pioneer in the Senoia community of Coweta County.  Brown’s property contains over 400 acres, mainly consisting of hayland, pastureland, and cattle.  A conservation goal of Brown’s was improve water quality to benefit fish and wildlife resources in the watershed and improve habitat conditions for several federally listed threatened and endangered mussels found in Coweta County. 

Idaho

beautiful backdrop of the Teton Mountains from the Jardine's family farm Protecting Farmland & Family Values in Idaho
NRCS is helping protect family farming in Idaho.  Partnering with the Teton Regional Land Trust and NRCS, fourth generation farmers Garry and MaeDean Jardine have placed a perpetual conservation easement on 639 acres of their farmland in the Teton Valley to forever protect it from development.
 
Washington

NRCS soil conservationist and liaison to the Yakama Nation Roger Amerman (photo by Andy Sawyer courtesy of the Yakima Herald Republic)NRCS Soil Conservationist Awarded Fellowship
NRCS soil conservationist and liaison to the Yakama Nation Roger Amerman is also a master bead worker who was awarded a 2007 fellowships for American Indian artists by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.
 

 

 

 

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(from left) US Fish and Wildlife Service Chief Dale Hall, US Geological Survey Associate Director of Biology Susan Haseltine, FSA Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs John Johnson, and NRCS Chief Arlen Lancaster (NRCS photos -- click to enlarge)Interior and Agriculture Sign MOU
NRCS Chief Arlen Lancaster was in Oregon last week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will establish and define areas of cooperation between USDA, NRCS, Farm Service Agency, Commodity Credit Corporation, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

 

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Hannah Daugherty recently receives the Prudential Spirit Of Community Award Earth Team Volunteer Receives Prudential Spirit Of Community Award
Tennessee NRCS Earth Team Volunteer Hannah Daugherty recently received the Prudential Spirit Of Community Award that recognizes outstanding community service by young Americans.

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NRCS Directives for the Week of March 25, 2007

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Soil Survey pioneer A. T. Sweet sampling soil in a Piedmont gully, Carroll County, Georgia, March 1921Soil Survey Pioneer A. T. Sweet
Soil Survey pioneer A. T. Sweet sampling soil in a Piedmont gully, Carroll County, Georgia, March 1921.

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