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Central National Technology Support Center Staff
Cheryl Simmons
National Technology Specialist
Updated 11/02/2005
Central National Technology Support Center USDA NRCS
Shipping Address: 501 W. Felix St., FWFC, Bldg. 23 Fort Worth, TX 76115
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6567, Fort Worth, TX 76115
Fax: 817-509-3337
Phone: 817-509-3314
VoiceCom: 9043-3314
Email:
Cheryl.Simmons@ftw.usda.gov
Cheryl Simmons is a National Technology Specialist located in Fort Worth,
Texas. She began her career in 1978 as a soil conservationist student trainee
with NRCS at Hays, KS and has served in several locations, including 14 years as
District Conservationist in Wabaunsee County located in the Flint Hills of north
central Kansas and in Howard County, Maryland. In 2000, Simmons accepted a
position in NHQ with the Farm Land Protection and Community Planning Staff.
Experience
National Agricultural Conservation Policy and Program Development and
Implementation (2000 to 2005)
Work at the national level to implement the
Conservation Security Program
(CSP) and the Farmland
Protection Policy Act. Activities and assistance included:
- national training programs;
- national policy directives and policy assistance to states;
- state level technical and financial assistance allocations;
- national program budgets, staffing and business plans;
- annual program reports to congress;
- development and update of field level implementation tools including the
CSP Self-Assessment and the farmland protection
Land Evaluation Site
Assessment information tools hard copy and on-line.
Field Level Program Delivery (1978 to 2000):
Delivery of technical and financial assistance programs available for natural
resource conservation on agricultural land. Responsibilities and accomplishments
include:
- long term contracts and agreements (including Great Plains contracts)
with local land owners for USDA NRCS conservation program benefits;
- erosion and wetland field determinations;
- conservation planning and certified nutrient management planner;
- survey, design, and check out construction of structural conservation
practices for cropland, range, wetland, wildlife and woodland conservation
programs;
-
review-approval
for erosion and sediment control plans, temporary storm water management
plans, and advised the county on implementation of the Forest Conservation
Act and Watershed Planning;
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extensive work
with Conservation Districts, County Councils, the Maryland Department of the
Environment, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and other
interested public and private parties on the 404 permitting process and
partnership activities;
-
represented NRCS
on the USDA Forest Service Baltimore City Ecosystem Study, the
EPA Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy, and the Kellogg foundation Chesapeake
Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture;
Education
- BS Degree in Natural Resources Management and Agriculture Education with
a minor in Soils
University of Nebraska/Lincoln, NE (1979)
- Masters of Public Administration Degree
Kansas University/Lawrence, Kansas (1988)
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