Overview Potential partners are invited to propose RCPP projects where NRCS and partners co-invest in impactful and innovative solutions to on-farm, watershed, and regional natural… Continue Reading Applications open for RCPP alternative funding arrangementsContinue Reading
“NRCS wants to ensure that the standards used to carry out the conservation practices are relevant to local agricultural, forestry and natural resource needs,” Acting… Continue Reading USDA Seeks Public Comment on Revised Conservation Practice Standards | NRCSContinue Reading
Attention Conservation Planners! Have you ever felt unqualified to have a conversation with your landowner on permit requirements for a conservation project? Do any of… Continue Reading Conservation Planners: “Environmental Permitting on Working Lands” trainingContinue Reading
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address… Continue Reading Regional Conservation Partnership Program | NRCS WashingtonContinue Reading
The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) is NRCS’s overarching easement program and provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and… Continue Reading Easements | NRCS WashingtonContinue Reading
WASHINGTON, February 5, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) General Signup period, which had previously been… Continue Reading USDA Extends General Signup for Conservation Reserve ProgramContinue Reading
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released the final rule for its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), which enables agricultural producers and… Continue Reading Updates to Conservation Easements Strengthens Protection for Farmlands, Grasslands and Wetlands | NRCSContinue Reading
On January 20th, the President issued an Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-the-federal-workforce-and-requiring-mask-wearing This means that any conservation district employee… Continue Reading Masks now required in USDA workspacesContinue Reading
