Conservation Topics

NRCS is an agency committed to “Helping People Help the Land”—our mission is to provide resources to farmers and landowners to aid them with conservation. Ensuring productive lands in harmony with a healthy environment is our...

North Dakota Earth Team members are part of a national network of volunteers who are giving their time and talent to help with local natural resource conservation projects.

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.