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The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...
The Georgia Conservancy's land conservation program was launched in 2011. The Conservancy believes that land conservation is a key to protecting Georgia's water resources, its plants and animals, and its citizens. The Georgia Conservancy advocates for local, state and federal policies that encourage land conservation.
Members of the Little River Soil Conservation District, Columbia County, Georgia, 1957. The agency was founded largely through the efforts of Hugh Hammond Bennett, a soil conservation pioneer who worked for the Department of Agriculture from 1903 to 1952. [4]
The County Watershed Protection Council announced grants from $30,000 to $90,000 to both Rocky River Conservancy, and the Anderson Soil and Water Conservation District, money from a 2014 Clean ...
OpEd: The Fayette County Conservation District (FCCD) performs some of the most effective and localized conservation and sustainability work in the state at the behest of the Soil and Water Board ...
A state soil is a soil that has special significance to a particular state. Each state in the United States has selected a state soil, twenty of which have been legislatively established. These official state soils share the same level of distinction as official state flowers and birds .
Jan. 3—Tennessee and Cumberland County farmers are reaping benefits of national cost-sharing and incentive programs. ... area conservationist with the National Resources Conservation Services ...
When the Soil Erosion Service was established as part of the United States Department of the Interior in September 1933, Bennett became the director. He continued to speak out on soil conservation issues, especially through the Dust Bowl years, and eventually influenced the passage of the soil conservation act of April 27, 1935, which created the Soil Conservation Service at the USDA.