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NRCS Conservation "Boot Camp" - Comprehensive Training for New Field Employees
Conservation “Boot Camp” meets a number of challenges for the 21st Century NRCS workforce.  Download and watch this exciting presentation and hear directly from the Chief,  “Boot Camp” participants, and instructors. This is not your everyday, standard MSPower Point!

(Note:  the sound track is contained in a separate .wma audio file. When you download, copy, or move the presentation, be sure to keep the PowerPoint file (BootCamp.ppt) and the .wma audio file together in the same folder or the audio portion will not work.)

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White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation
NRCS participated in the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation in St. Louis, Missouri, this week. The Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency are co-hosted the event.

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Women Farmers and Ranchers Meet to Create Change and Plant the Seeds for Future Work
The role of women in agriculture is the theme for a SARE-supported national conference to be held October 21-23, in Burlington, Vermont. For conservation technical assistance providers like NRCS conservationists, the 2-1/2-day conference will provide an opportunity to learn about women’s unique contributions to farming and ranching. And for NRCS presenters, it will provide and opportunity to educate participants about NRCS conservation technical assistance and programs.

Putting Down Roots in Nebraska
The NRCS Manhattan, Kansas, Plant Materials Center (PMC) and the National Park Service (NPS) are partnering to construct a new visitor’s center at Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska. The Manhattan PMC will specify local cultivars or source identified releases from neighboring States and provide technical assistance and seed for landscaping around the visitors center using local commercial seed vendors for the project.

Get the details...
-- NRCS Plant Materials Program
-- Homestead National Monument website
-- NRCS Manhattan Plant Materials Center

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