Tom serves as the Executive Director of the Washington Association of Conservation Districts, a nonprofit organization formed in 1942 to serve and support Washington's conservation districts.
Email spoofing: what is it and how to stop it? Email spoofing is the act of sending emails with a forged sender address. It tricks the… Continue Reading Why do cyberattacks increase over the holiday season?Continue Reading
NRCS: What is Equity? Equity is the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including people who belong to underserved communities… Continue Reading NRCS: What is Equity?Continue Reading
Plant Materials Center Update: December 20, 2022 The past week has been slow with the weather-related slowdown in harvest and shipping. Instead of the usual… Continue Reading Plant Materials Center update: December 20, 2022Continue Reading
Plant Materials Center Update: December 15, 2022 Here are 5 things that you should know about the PMC for December 15, 2022: Harvest in Full… Continue Reading Plant Materials Center update: December 15, 2022Continue Reading
The NACD Soil Health Champions Network is made up of more than 370 farmers, ranchers, woodland owners and land managers from across the nation who… Continue Reading NACD seeks Soil Health Champions, offers scholarships to NACD annual meetingContinue Reading
Agricultural producers – especially organic, urban, specialty crop and direct market producers – are invited to join the USDA Risk Management Agency for a series of… Continue Reading RMA Roadshow Series: December 13thContinue Reading
The Least-Conflict Solar Siting Project poses the question: Where can utility-scale solar be developed in the Columbia Plateau region while also ensuring that important natural… Continue Reading WSU: Least-Conflict Solar SitingContinue Reading
Proposed 2022 WACD Bylaw Changes At the September meeting, the Board of Directors directed staff to disseminate and gather feedback on a potential bylaw change… Continue Reading Proposed 2022 WACD Bylaw ChangesContinue Reading
WACD 2023 LEGISLATIVE SESSION POLICY PRIORITIES Note that the numbering conventions below for preliminary priorities are for convenience and do not indicate a relative level… Continue Reading Preliminary 2023 WACD Legislative PrioritiesContinue Reading
The Washington state office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is launching a new voluntary Riparian Buffer Program in fiscal year 2023 that will… Continue Reading NRCS announces new riparian buffer programContinue Reading