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Conservation Technical AssistanceUpdated 08/05/2009 Overview
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the US Department of Agriculture's principal agency for providing conservation technical assistance to private landowners, conservation districts, tribes, and other organizations.
What is Conservation Technical Assistance?Conservation technical
assistance is the help NRCS and its partners provide to land users to address
opportunities, concerns, and problems related to the use of natural resources
and to help land users make sound natural resource management decisions on
private, tribal, and other non-federal lands.
This assistance may be in the form of resource assessment, practice design, resource monitoring, or follow-up of installed practices.
Who Needs Conservation Technical Assistance?NRCS and its partners use the CTA program to provide technical assistance to:
This voluntary program is delivered to private individuals, groups of decision-makers, tribes, units of governments, and non-governmental organizations in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Marshall Islands. All owners, managers, and others who have a stake and interest in natural resource management are eligible to receive technical assistance from NRCS. To receive technical assistance, the individual may contact their local NRCS office or the local conservation district. The working relationships that landowners and communities have with their local NRCS staff are unique. One-on-one help through flexible, voluntary programs occurs every day in local NRCS offices across the country. It is the way NRCS does business, and it works. To obtain conservation technical assistance, contact your local NRCS office. How Can I Learn More?Purpose of the CTA Program Program Priorities
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