Can Agriculture Improve Water Quality? With Data-Driven Voluntary Conservation, the Answer is Yes.

This blog by Chief Terry Cosby details some of the key ways USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service supports producers and conservation partners in improving water quality and strengthening agricultural operations through voluntary conservation.

Habitat for Diverse Wildlife

Steve and Rita Mueller work with NRCS to create water sources throughout their land.

Montana State University Students Visit Lick Creek SNOTEL Site

In the fall of 2023, a professor and her 15 students got an up-close tour of the Lick Creek SNOTEL Site, to learn how the water supply forecast is predicted.

Sustainable Ranching on Sacred Land

For over three decades, the Kipps have been safeguarding this land, collaborating with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

Caring for the Land, a Passion and a Mission

Bart and Wendy Morris operate Oxbow Cattle Company just outside Missoula, Montana. They raise all-natural, grass-finished beef on about 5,000 acres of owned and leased land. The company worked with the NRCS through the Agricultural Land Easement and Enviromental Quality Incentives Programs.

A Better Place

Jimmy Robinson continues to work with NRCS into the future to ensure irrigation water efficiency and to diagnose his land’s needs and find tools to address them.

Moving Livestock Pens Out of Waterway Has Long Term Benefits

Hear from Gary Flikkema near Manhattan and Mark Thiesen, Jr. near Wilsall.

Multi-faceted Project Promotes Positive Land Management

David Lyons worked with NRCS, the Madison Conservation District, and other partners to improve the condition and water quality of Moore's Creek near Ennis, Montana.

The Community's Stream: Broadwater County Celebrates Successful Restoration of Deep Creek

Landowners, state and federal agencies, nonprofit groups, volunteers, and the Broadwater Conservation District (CD) worked to restore Deep Creek.