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The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. And yet the world, In its distress, Displays a certain Loveliness -- John Updike, "A Child's Calendar"NRCS This Week mast head

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The NRCS Three Rivers RC&D worked with the City of Eagle Lake, Minnesota, and others to create an attractive, healthy, and functional alternative to a traditional city park garden. TGardening with Water Quality in Mind
The NRCS Three Rivers RC&D worked with the City of Eagle Lake, Minnesota, and others to create an attractive, healthy, and functional alternative to a traditional city park garden. The rain garden they developed will help reduce nutrient and sediment runoff into lakes, streams, and the storm water system while establishing wildlife habitat and a beautiful, low maintenance landscape.
 

Norwalk Mayor Alex Knopp cuts the ribbon at the Silvermine River Restoration Project completion ceremonySilvermine Project Polishes-Up a Connecticut River
After six years, NRCS, neighbors, the City of Norwalk, Trout Unlimited, the Norwalk River Watershed Initiative, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and other partners in the Silvermine Restoration Project have reason to celebrate now that their work is complete.
 

 

Artic Ways logoYukon Flats e-Commerce Project Now On-Line
The NRCS Yukon Flats RC&D program has partnered with sponsor Philadelphia University to develop  ArcticWays.com -- a website dedicated to selling Native arts and crafts via the internet. For over a decade the NRCS Yukon Flats RC&D has worked toward using e-commerce to market and sell native arts & crafts has been in the Yukon Flats RC&D Plan for over a decade.  Now on-line, ArcticWays.com allows artists to sell their goods to the e-world.

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Riparian buffer along Bear Creek, in Story County, Iowa. The buffer was established for about four years at the time of photo in 1997. Bear Creek is a national demonstration area for conservation buffers. USDA and USDI Sign Partnership Agreement Regarding Water Conservation
NRCS Chief Bruce Knight and John W. Keys, III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to accomplish efficient use and long-term sustainability of available water supplies for agricultural production, fish and wildlife protection, recreation and other beneficial uses.

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NRCS Chief Bruce Knight (second from left) visits a Texas Alliance for Water Conservation demonstration site to learn more about the project’s potentialNew Texas Initiative Targets Water Conservation
NRCS, SARE, and Texas Tech University are teaming up to reduce agricultural water consumption across the Texas High Plains. Texas Tech University researcher Vivien Allen along with her management team and NRCS conservation agronomist Monty Dollar will be able to  demonstrate their water-conserving farming strategies in an effort to control the dropping water level in the Ogallala aquifer thanks to a $6.2 million State grant.

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