NRCS and Ducks Unlimited to Partner

(l. to r.) present at the Ducks Unlimited MOU signing were (front) Don Young and Chief Bruce Knight (back) State Conservationist NRCS Minnesota William Hunt, Dave Seykora (landowner), Jim Connaughton, Chairman of President's Council on Environmental Quality; State Senator: Dennis Fredrickson; James Killen (landowner)

A Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) project site in Minnesota was the setting for the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOU)  between NRCS and Ducks Unlimited (DU), Inc. that will establish a framework for cooperation to enhance and conserve the productivity of wetlands, uplands, grasslands, and other waterfowl and wildlife habitats on private and public lands. Chief

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Knight and Ducks Unlimited's Don Young signed the MOU this week at the Straight River Marsh WRP project site on the David Seykora Farm in Owatonna, Minnesota.
Your contact is Julie MacSwain, NRCS public affairs specialist, at 651-602-7859 or julie.macswain@mn.usda.gov