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New Wetlands Course

this WRP site in Worth County, Iowa, provides the landonwer many hours of outdoor recreation including bird watching and huntingThe NRCS National Wetland Team will be offering a new course coordinated through the National Employee Development Center (NEDC) titled, Wetland Identification & Delineation for Swampbuster. This course will be equivalent to the Corps of Engineers Reg. IV course; however, the focus will be on interpretations for the Swampbuster provisions of the Food Security Act. Enrollment in this course will be through ICAMS, similar to other NRCS NEDC course requests.

For FY06 the wetland team will also be the lead in instructing Wetland Restoration & Enhancement, Hydric Soils, and Hydrology Tools courses through NEDC.
Your contacts are Norman Melvin, NRCS Wetlands Team Leader, at 817-509-3572,  or Jerry Williams, NRCS NEDC, at 817-509-3259.