Cooperative Conservation

Cooperative Conservation describes the efforts of landowners, communities, conservation groups, industry, and governmental agencies who join together to conserve our environment. Through cooperative conservation, citizens from every walk of life do what they can to enhance, restore, and protect lands, waters, air, and wildlife resources on public and private lands. Through cooperative conservation, citizens play a central and substantive role in the stewardship and governance of the environments in which they live, work, and play.

The principles of Cooperative Conservation are quite simple.  It is voluntary and incentive-based: people associate together voluntarily to pursue common conservation goals. It rests on cooperation and collaboration: problems are solved by people working together.

What does cooperative conservation look like on the ground? You can see examples throughout Minnesota where landowners have issues concerning their land and natural resources, often using the tools of the Farm Bill and the many programs which NRCS in Minnesota has to offer.

For more information on what NRCS has to offer in the state of Minnesota, stop by your local USDA Service Center or check out the MN NRCS website for additional information.

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