Technical Assistance

[caption id="attachment_72696" align="alignright" width="519"] Photo from Washington County SWCD[/caption] By Nika Colley, NACD Northeast Region Representative In conservation, it is often seen that natural resources, and the issues associated with them, do not adhere neatly with human borders. Many conservation districts work across municipal, county, and state boundaries. Some, like the Washington County Soil and…… Continue reading →

By Caroline Wade, Executive Director, Saving Tomorrow's Agriculture Resources (STAR) Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources (STAR) is a national scale framework for conservation evaluation, implementation, and coordination that supports technical assistance providers and streamlines conservation progress for producers. It is available for cropland in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and…… Continue reading →

How one RCD forester is scaling from single landowners to landscape-level action. by the Sonoma Resource Conservation District Jason Wells never thought he’d return to Sonoma County, California, as no forestry positions existed. But after the 2017 Tubbs Fire tore through Santa Rosa, destroying over 5,000 homes, everything changed. Not only is Jason back where…… Continue reading →

In the Atlantic and Cape May Counties of New Jersey, the Cape Atlantic Conservation District (CD) is using NACD Outreach and Technical Assistance (TA) Grant funding to build capacity and better support producers in their community. In the most densely populated state in the country, conservation support may look a little different here. In densely…… Continue reading →

In northern Arkansas, an NACD Outreach and Technical Assistance (TA) grant has helped the Fulton County Conservation District (FCCD) address conservation on more than 16,000 acres and develop over 70 conservation plans for producers in their county. The TA grant funding, made possible through an agreement between NACD and NRCS, has enabled the district to…… Continue reading →

Just north of Las Vegas, Nevada's Lincoln County is the seventh largest in the country. The county covers 10,637 square miles, 98% of which are public lands. Sparsely populated, producers in Lincoln County focus on the production of Alfalfa hay for dairies in neighboring California and graze livestock on public lands managed by the Bureau…… Continue reading →

Maurie Hobbs is the fourth generation in her family to work on the French Ranch in Humboldt County, California.  It was her great grandparents’ homestead, and when the management was passed to her and her husband, Marty, they weren’t exactly sure what their first steps should be to create the future they wanted on the…… Continue reading →

[caption id="attachment_59120" align="alignleft" width="524"] TJ Kartes from Saddle Butte Ag is in the root pit showing the crowd the root system of cover crops during the 2022 Cultivating Soil Health Field Day.[/caption] "We’ve gone from not having a program to now having a leading soil health program in the state," reflects Shannon Wettstein, District Manager…… Continue reading →

In the fall of 2016, Hurricane Matthew hit eastern North Carolina, causing widespread flooding and record-breaking storm surge. More hurricanes followed in 2017 and 2018, each impacting eastern North Carolina and its agricultural producers with high winds, storm surges, and flooding that damaged crops and livestock operations and washed out roads. [caption id="attachment_56568" align="alignleft" width="299"]…… Continue reading →

This blog post is part of a six-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 77th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. This post’s author, Michaela Slagle-Saylor of Washington County Soil & Water Conservation District in TN, attended the meeting with a TA stipend. Washington County, Tennessee had an incredible opportunity for…… Continue reading →