Agencies Team Up to Help Forest Landowners Clean Vital Watersheds

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Delaware Forest Service (DFS) are intensifying their efforts to advance conservation on privately-owned forest lands in an effort to improve water quality throughout Delaware.  “Our renewed emphasis on water quality was sparked by efforts to improve and enhance the health of the Chesapeake Bay, but we’re taking it a step further. We’re focusing our conservation efforts on water bodies statewide,” said Russell Morgan, NRCS State Conservationist in Delaware. 

USDA Extends Sign-up for 2008 Conservation Security Program

CSP sign-up will run through May 30, 2008

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Arlen Lancaster today announced that producers in 51 eligible watersheds nationwide will have two additional weeks to apply for the Conservation Security Program (CSP) in fiscal year 2008. The sign-up now ends on May 30, 2008.

In Delaware, CSP is available to 330 potentially eligible farms in the northern portion of the Broadkill Smyrna Watershed, which includes parts of New Castle and Kent counties.

Conservation - Our Purpose Our Passion

The purpose and passion for conservation is shared among many. It is shared between NRCS employees and partners who help people help the land. And it is shared by the landowners with whom we work. Our passion is manifested through the benefits derived from stewardship of private lands—benefits we all enjoy, such as cleaner water and air, improved soils and abundant wildlife habitat.