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The Golden Winged Warbler

Sign-up to Protect Wildlife by June 14, 2013

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers voluntary conservation program opportunities through the Farm Bill. 

NRCS is announcing a ranking period for its Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP).  All applications for program benefits received by June 14, 2013 will be ranked and considered for funding in July.

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Poultry producer Tom VanMeter and Hardy County NRCS employees plant the Switchgrass in front of the exhaust fans.

Switchgrass windbreaks planted on Hardy County poultry farm


In an effort to improve air quality and to better cycle nutrients, Hardy County poultry producer Tom VanMeter is planting tall grass windbreaks near two of his poultry house exhaust fans.

“Planting tall grass windbreaks is an innovative conservation practice that will help West Virginia poultry growers as they strive to meet Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load  requirements on nutrients and sediment,” stated Carla Hardy, Watershed Program Coordinator, West Virginia Conservation Agency, Moorefield, West Virginia.

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Poultry producer Tom VanMeter and Hardy County NRCS employees plant the Switchgrass in front of the exhaust fans.

USDA-NRCS Earth Team Volunteer Program
Volunteers: A Vital Part of the Natural Resources Conservation Service

Join the Earth Team!

The Earth Team is a volunteer branch of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). We help people conserve, improve, and sustain our natural resources and environment.

You can be an Earth Team Volunteer and help protect soil, water, air, plants, and wildlife in your community. 

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Treated discharge of Beulah Chapel 2 is conveyed without recontamination by this Bentonite-sealed open limestone channel on Beulah Chapel Site 1.

Deckers Creek Water Quality Project Shows Results

During the past decade, the Preston and Monongalia County Commission, the Monongahela Conservation District, the State Conservation Committee, the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection (DEP) Office of Abandoned Mine Lands and Reclamation, the Division of Natural Resources, and the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) have cooperated to develop and implement a plan to decrease the impact of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) on scenic Deckers Creek. The Friends of Deckers Creek also cooperated in the effort to identify acid seepages draining to Deckers Creek and its tributaries. A plan was published in September 2000 which identified 89 acid seeps and grouped the 44 most toxic seeps into 13 abandoned mine projects.

The DEP and NRCS share responsibility for administrating construction of the 13 sites selected during planning.

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Rock Sediment Dam at Laurel Run Site 2.

West Virginia State Technical Committee Meeting

The public is invited to attend a meeting of the West Virginia State Technical Committee for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. The meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 in room 200 at 1550 Earl Core Road in Morgantown, WV. Topics include Farm Bill Programs.

Persons with disabilities who require special accommodations and/or alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) associated with this meeting should contact Charlotte Elliot-Friend at 304-284-4247 at least two weeks prior to the meeting with his/her specific request.


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The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.