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The program was administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2008 Congress enacted the 2008 Farm Bill and replaced the Conservation Security Program with the similarly named, but differently structured Conservation Stewardship Program. [1] [2]
The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. Its name was changed in 1994 during the presidency of Bill Clinton to reflect its ...
Richland SWCD invites the public to attend a free Rain Barrel and Garden Workshop at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the main library. Reservations are required.
The organization became an active participant in the urban agriculture movement beginning in 2003, leading an array of programs such as the Garden Resource Program, an initiative that supported thousands of individual gardens throughout the city (now managed by Keep Growing Detroit); youth-based nutrition and gardening education at Romanowski ...
Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that Biden also signed into law in August 2022, a $20 billion appropriation was made to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for oversubscribed programs (including the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program) to assist farmers with conservation ...
Environmental stewardship (or planetary stewardship) refers to the responsible use and protection of the natural environment through active participation in conservation efforts and sustainable practices by individuals, small groups, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and other collective networks.
John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement. Little Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-29110-1. Gottlieb, Robert (1993). Forcing the spring: the transformation of the American environmental movement. Island Press. ISBN 1-55963-123-6. Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (Harvard University Press, 1959).