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South Carolina Partnership Lends a Hand to Katrina-Battered Mississippi
The Newberry, South Carolina Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and NRCS are pitching in to provide resources to Hurricane Katrina-battered Hancock County, Mississippi, to help recovery in that rural area.

Minnesota Students Enjoy Environmental Fair
NRCS, the Southwest Minnesota Association of Conservation District Employees, and a number of local, State, and Federal organizations joined together to provide over 2,000 students from a 14-county area in southwest Minnesota a day of environmental learning at the Lyon County Fairgrounds in Marshall Minnesota.
 

South Dakota Boasts First Tribal WRP Easement
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (FSST) in eastern South Dakota recently became a partner in the first government-to-government placement of Tribal trust land in the NRCS Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP). At FSST headquarters, those present at the ceremony witnessed the culmination of a vision that started over five years ago.

Letters from Boot Camp
To wrap-up a highly successful NRCS “boot camp” season, the next several editions of NRCS This Week will feature some first-hand impressions by field training participants, instructors, and others.
 

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NRCS Assisting Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi
NRCS is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State emergency agencies to prepare for upcoming post-disaster cleanup and restoration projects in Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.

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SARE Seeks Applicants for 2005/2006 Farmer plus Professional Grants
In the dry and windy southeast corner of Colorado, where annual rainfall averages just 11 to 18 inches per year, growers have been laying drip lines with the help of the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funds since 2003.

New Wetlands Course
The NRCS National Wetland Team will be offering a new course coordinated through the National Employee Development Center (NEDC) titled, Wetland Identification & Delineation for Swampbuster. This course will be equivalent to the Corps of Engineers Reg. IV course; however, the focus will be on interpretations for the Swampbuster provisions of the Food Security Act. Enrollment in this course will be through ICAMS, similar to other NRCS NEDC course requests.

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