NRCS is proud of the dedicated Earth Team volunteers and staff who have committed their time and talents to conserving and protecting our natural resources.

Anwar Youssef

As a volunteer, Anwar has provided assistance in vegetation spraying in order to control noxious and invasive plants. He went Bog Turtle surveying and assisted in taking GPS point site measurements to show potential locations of the Bog Turtles. He also conducted a research project on Bog Turtle’s in Maryland for the county office to educate staff on threatened species.  

Carl Robinette

As a former NRCS employee, volunteering provides Carl the opportunity to stay involved with the annual Envirothon State Contest and the FFA Land Judging Contest. He also trains high school students and runs the soils resource portion of Garrett and Allegany’s Envirothons. In addition to teaching youth, Carl assists with soil trainings for NRCS, MDA and SCD employees. In the Allegany Field Office, he assists with Farm Bill programs. Carl also provides offsite and onsite soils information and data to the local NRCS field offices.

Kerri Ader

Kerri volunteers at the National Plant Materials Center in Beltsville, Md.  She is updating the Center's seed inventory and is testing the seed for viability.  She has also works on the People’s Garden Project,  starting vegetable seeds and maintaining the vegetables until they are ready for planting at the USDA's People’s Garden in Washington, D.C.  Kerri has started over 3000 vegetable seeds with a 100% germination rate.

Amanda Tellechea

Amanda Tellechea has been working as an Earth Team Volunteer for approximately one year.  During this timeframe she has been working with the Public Affairs and Outreach Division from a Southern Maryland field office providing technical support on several key projects.  Those projects include the development of an Urban Agriculture Fact Sheet along with a partnership brochure that talks about how the conservation partners work together in addressing local resource concerns.

Tim Gerber

Tim works on the NASIS database by entering data for soil descriptions.  He participates in the Envirothon training event for high school teams in the county.  Tim prepared and presented a PowerPoint presentation to the Universal Soil Loss Equation on RUSLE for a “5^th Topic” training session scheduled for Envirothon teams.  He assisted with a day of soils training and grading the soils part of the Envirothon test.