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Meeting

Local Working Group Meeting Set for Tompkins/Schuyler Counties

Event Date
August 7-8, 2024
Time
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location
Tompkins Soil and Water Conservation District, 170 Bostwick Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
Fee Description
No Fees
The Kirtland’s warbler nests in jack pine forests in a few areas in Michigan and Wisconsin. Kirtland's warbler populations have greatly improved following multi-agency efforts to restore jack pine forests and prevent parasitism of Kirtland’s warbler nests by brown-headed cowbirds. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo.

Ithaca, N. Y., July 8th, 2024— The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) gives notice that it will hold a Local Working Group meeting for Tompkins/Schuyler Counties. These meetings are open to the public.

31
Jul
Deadline

Registration

o participate in your Local Working Group, please contact Erin Kurtz, your local District Conservationist, via e-mail at erin.kurtz@usda.gov. Directions and phone numbers to your local USDA Service Center can be found online at 

https://www.farmers.gov/working-with-us/service-center-locator

***PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE***

Ithaca, N. Y., July 8th, 2024— The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) gives notice that it will hold a Local Working Group meeting for Tompkins/Schuyler Counties. These meetings are open to the public.

WHEN: August 7, 2023
TIME: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm 
WHERE: Tompkins Soil and Water Conservation District
170 Bostwick Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

The Local Working Group will focus on identifying agricultural and natural resource issues existing in your community and providing information and feedback to NRCS. Participants may be agricultural producers; owners of nonindustrial private forestland; representatives of agricultural and environmental organizations; and representatives of governmental agencies carrying out environmental, agricultural, or natural resource conservation programs and activities.

NRCS Local Working Groups are subcommittees of the NRCS State Technical Committee and provide recommendations on local natural resource priorities and Farm Bill program conservation activities. For information about the State Technical Committee, contact Angela VanDyke via e-mail, angela.vandyke@usda.gov.