Conservation... Our Purpose.  Our Passion.

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. 

Meet Ohio's Featured Customers

The Stollers

The Stoller Family of Sterling, Ohio, was selected as one of eight featured families in the new NRCS national campaign, "Conservation...Our Purpose.  Our Passion."  The Stoller's own and
operation an organic dairy and use rotational grazing to feed the cows. 

<Featured Customer Scott Stoller

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Ohio Organic Dairy Farm (1:34 minutes)
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Other Featured Customers in Ohio

	Mike Altstaetter of Logan County, Ohio owns and operates a beef cattle operation utilizing rotational grazing.   <Featured Customer Mike Altstaetter
	Will and Tom Koenig of Madison County, Ohio farm 5,000 acres of row crops conserving wetland and utilizing filter strips and native grass riparian buffers. <Featured Customers Will and Tom Koenig
	Carol and Alice O'Brien of Logan County, Ohio planted over 2000 hardwood trees, reforesting an abandoned gravel pit on their rural property. <Featured Customers Carol and Alice O'Brien
	Birds and deer abound on Arden and Kay Weller's 320 acre Putnam County farm.  The Wellers restored wetlands and planted acres and acres of native grasses and wildflowers to provide habitat for wildlife. <Featured Customers Dean Schlacter and Kay and Arden Weller

More Featured Customers

Meet Ohio's Featured Employees

	<Featured Employee... Robert Parkinson..."creator of 'The Dust Bowl and Beyond'. "
	<Featured Employee... Jon Reedstrom..."opening up the world of soils".

View the "Conservation...Our Purpose. Our Passion" video...

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View the National Campaign site.

Conservation…Our Purpose. Our Passion. 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.

Meet America's Featured Customers!
Eight featured customers were chosen to represent diversity of geography, culture, adopted practices and products, represent a cross-section of our landowner-partners nationwide.

Our Stories: Read about landowners who have succeeded in reaching their conservation goals with the help of NRCS conservation technical assistance and other programs. These stories can be searched by State, region, crop, conservation practice, and program.