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Louisiana's Featured Employees
Updated
07/15/2008
The
purpose and passion for conservation is shared among many. It is shared
between NRCS employees and partners who help people help the land. And it is
shared by the landowners with whom we work. Our passion is manifested
through the benefits derived from stewardship of private lands—benefits we
all enjoy, such as cleaner water and air, improved soils and abundant
wildlife habitat.
Learn about our stories, the stories of
conservation made possible through a shared purpose, a shared passion and a
shared commitment to conservation. |
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Michael Trusclair: Pride, Passion
and Purpose...Embedded in Family, Work and Future
Michael Trusclair
is the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District
Conservationist in the Boutte Field Office, which provides services for
six parishes; Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, Orleans and
Plaquemines. He graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge in
1996 and received his Masters in Environmental Science in 2003. Michael is
proud to be a part of the growing natural resource awareness movement that
has pervaded the six parishes. “With this assistance of the NRCS and other
agencies, the public is becoming more and more interested in our natural
resources and just how important they are to this area,” said Michael.
“We are needed more than ever down here and outreach, education and
partnerships are key in natural resource awareness.”
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Brett Mann: Beyond Random Acts of Conservation
Brett joined NRCS in 1992 working at the
Crowley Watershed as a WAE.
By 1995, Brett moved down to Galliano where he worked at the Plant Materials
Center (PMC) as a Biological Science Technician Aid until 2002. Brett’s main
duty consisted of maintaining greenhouse facilities, to include plant weed care,
building maintenance and organization. In 2002, Brett had the opportunity to
apply for Mail Clerk at the State Office in Alexandria and he got the job.
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Brian Baiamonte: Changing the World
One Individual At a Time Brian Baiamonte may now be a district conservationist in
Shreveport and acting district conservationist in Mansfield, but it wasn’t too
long ago that Brian walked into an NRCS field office for the first time. “I got
introduced to the agency by accident. I was taking a soil science class and
needed a soil survey manual. I stopped into a field office and met a fellow
student who was actually volunteering in that very field office,” said Brian.
“He recommended volunteering and…next week I did.”
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Tania Nanna: From Earth Team Volunteer
to NRCS Employee
Tania started working with the state soils section as an Earth Team Volunteer
in 2005 until being hired as term employee in 2007. Her main duties included
quality control of soil maps for SSURGO using GIS software and working on the Cameron-Creole watershed
project (southwest Louisiana), digitizing water/land interfaces from ortho-imagery
using various GIS tools. Tania was encouraged to develop new techniques to solve
problems and complete tasks, which made the volunteer work very interesting and
rewarding.
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