Conservation ... Our Purpose. Our Passion.

Raymond Cooper is an innovative, conservation-minded beef cattle farmer in central Tennessee who gets a lot out of his land because he places a high value on maintaining and building his natural resources. He loves to farm, but he also wants to make a decent living. He says conservation farming lets him do both.

RC&D Coordinator Lindy Turner has been with NRCS for 26 years. A former Soil Conservationist and District Conservationist, in 1990 Lindy was named coordinator of the new Clinch-Powell RC&D area, the first new RC&D to be authorized after a national ten year interlude. Through the RC&D, Lindy helped forge innovative partnerships in conservation to protect some of the most important freshwater mussel shoals in the world. Lindy says protecting the environment is her number one job.

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Wiley Scott began working for the NRCS (then the Soil Conservation Service) on November 17, 1958. He was fresh out of Auburn University where he received a degree in agricultural engineering. The north Alabama native began his work as a roving survey party leader at the Jackson, Tennessee area office. A year later he came to the State Office in Nashville where he was been a vital and enthusiastic presence for the past 48 years.

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