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Clean water, abundant wildlife, and productive agriculture are
interconnected. Conservation doesn’t have man-made boundaries.
That’s why NRCS is addressing natural resource priorities on a landscape
scale. Our conservation solutions benefit both landowners and the
environment, provide wildlife habitat and improve agricultural
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Technical and financial assistance will help ag landowners implement
conservation practices that prevent, control, and trap nutrient runoff
and restore and protect wetlands. |
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Six projects in four states will accelerate efforts toward a healthy and
restored Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. |
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$3 million in financial and technical assistance go for emergency
restoration projects in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. |
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NRCS has formed a national team to assist states in the voluntary
conservation efforts to reduce nitrates leaving the intensively drained
farmlands in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. |
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Updated
06/17/2011
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