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Guides and Instructions

Guides and Instructions

Certified Wetlands Determination

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is responsible for providing program participants technical assistance and certified wetland determinations to assist them in making informed land management decisions in order to remain compliant with the wetland conservation provisions.

Cotton grass in a wetland in Alaska
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Conservation Compliance

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is responsible for providing program participants technical assistance and determinations to assist them in complying with USDA conservation compliance regulations.

Small wetland adjacent to a crop field in southwest Michigan.
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Conservation Effects for Decisionmakers

Conservation Effects for Decisionmakers helps NRCS planners evaluate the effects of various conservation options available to the land user.

Fall color near Shelburne, Massachusetts, on October 16, 2019. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
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Conservation Planning - Iowa

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's principal agency for providing conservation technical assistance to private landowners, conservation districts, tribes, and other organizations.

Iowa NRCS District Conservationist meets with neighbors about CRP in Cedar County.
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Conservation Planning Workbook - Montana

The Conservation Planning Workbook is a new tool available to producers to help streamline the planning and programmatic application processes.

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Conservation Practice Physical Effects

The CPPE matrix, and associated planning tools, describe how NRCS’s conservation practices effect the Natural Resource and Human-Economic Environments.

Ranch owners Frank and Jackie Mills utilized the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS Windbreak Restoration Conservation Practice 650 to remove dead and dying trees from an existing windbreak, a.k.a. shelterbelt, and added rows of Junipers on their land in Crawford, NE, in the Great Plains region of the United States, on July 23, 2021. Their windbreak has a tall center row that was originally planted with elm and cedar trees from the 1950s. This row was filled in