The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in cooperation with its partners, has the leadership role for conducting soil surveys on private lands across the country.

The Nation’s freshwater supply, shaped by rainfall, snowmelt, runoff and infiltration, is distributed unevenly across the landscape, throughout the seasons, and from year to year.

One out of every three bites of food in the United States depends on honey bees and other pollinators.

Energy was added as a natural resource concern by NRCS in late 2010. It is now one of several natural resource concerns of NRCS along with soil, water, air, plants, and animals.