Conservation districts in the US

Ah, ok, I still didn’t get what you were asking or trying to say with your question.

Now I think I get it :) It was a suggestion to learn more about the natural resources in your US community…?

Ok. 90% of the site is from the US, 10% isn’t…just fyi. And, I’m the only American of the three founders…and I didn’t have a clue what you were trying to say.

Could you be clear (eg, if you think people might not get it add lots of detail) next time, and then you might get more replies and more people will understand what you’re saying.

Thanks :)

I’ve been working with a soil conservation district out west for 6 years, and warmheart’s inconsistent thinking is typical of the leaders of these local governments. Districts are supposed to be protecting our natural resources in parternship with the USDA, but are actually protecting the anti-environmental, self-interested attitudes of old white men in the west.

The mission of some of our districts is to protect natural resources and maintain productive agricultural lands. I have said recently that one of these days they are going to have to pick one because these goals are becoming more divergent all of the time, with our large scale chemical-based agriculture and farmers who will tear up more grassland to plant high-water use corn when the price goes up and seem to be planning to keep the irrigation pumps running until the aquifer is dry.

It is not a good ol boys group in Wyoming as I hear they can be elsewhere. Everyone is an environmentalist to some degree or another, just not extreme right or left.

We all want to see our range improved. Our place has been operating on the same range for over 60 years. If we were to “rape the land” as some people call ranchers, we’d have been out of business a long time ago!

The districts have best management practices (BMP’s) for local land users to apply to their lands under the auspices of the USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) with the technological services of the NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Service).

Have a project? Go to the conservation district and they set you up with the technicians and possible cost share funding from NRCS and USDA.

Districts always strive for a no-net-loss in ag land when development arises.

“You’ve got me babe”

I was a supervisor on our board for 15 years. In the statement, a clarification is needed…find YOURS and use them…

…find them & use them for gaining knowledge?

OK. However, this reads like you copied out of your test for home work. Is it?

Reread the paragraph: From there, Legislature…