News Feature                                                            9/6/2007

Conservation Assistance

NRCS provides conservation assistance through a nationwide network of conservation districts and local offices.  Our locally based NRCS staff works directly with farmers to provide technical and financial conservation assistance. 

NRCS helps landowners to develop conservation plans and provides advice on the design, layout, construction, management, operation, maintenance, and evaluation of the recommended, voluntary conservation practices.  NRCS’s programs and other Federal, State, or local cost-share programs may be available to help producers implement conservation practices, as well as provide incentives to qualified landowners to protect their natural resources. 

NRCS works on a variety of activities that include farmland protection, upstream flood prevention, emergency watershed protection, urban conservation, and local community projects designed to improve social, economic, and environmental conditions. 

NRCS conducts soil surveys, conservation needs assessment, and the National Resources Inventory to provide a basis for resource conservation planning activities.  

As the leading source of technology as it applies to natural resources conservation on private lands, NRCS develops technical guides and other Web-based tools for use by landowners and others to help enhance their natural resource conservation efforts.

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