Natural Resources Conservation Service

Caribbean Area

United States Department of Agriculture

PR Field Office closure: earthquakes - UPDATE

As of 8:00 a.m. Jan. 13 All NRCS Caribbean Area office locations are open except for Mayagüez. Mayagüez Field Office staff are at the Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Ecological Sciences staff are at the Mayagüez Rural Development office, and Soils staff are teleworking.

USGS Earthquake map of Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands showing 7 Days (Jan.1-8, 2020), Magnitude 2.5 or greater earthquakes; showing 208 of 420 earthquakes in the map area.

12 Gifts of Conservation/ 12 Regalos de Conservación

Join us in celebrating the #12GiftsOfConservaton. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Únase a nosotros para celebrar el # 12RegalosDeConservación. Es el regalo que sigue dando de sí.

Join us in celebrating the #12GiftsOfConservaton. It's the gift that keeps on giving. <i>Únase a nosotros para celebrar el # 12RegalosDeConservación. Es el regalo que sigue dando de sí.</i>https://go.usa.gov/xpVST

Southwest PR Irrigation RCPP Sign-up Open!

NRCS & Suroeste SWCD announce signup for Cabo Rojo and Lajas farmers to participate in the Adaptation Measures for Climate Change Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) project to improve irrigation channels and efficiency!

Atención Agricultores de Cabo Rojo Y Lajas! Registro de Proyecto de Riego de RCPP. Solicitudes vencen el 16 de enero de 2020.

Joint Chiefs Partnership delivers over 6,000 trees to PR farmers

NRCS and partners delivered 6,069 native trees to PR farmers in the past two years as part of our first Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Initiative (JCI) project.

On Nov. 21 NRCS & our conservation partners delivered 1,377 trees for multistory cropping to 2 farmers served by the NRCS Juana Diaz office (Juana Diaz and Coamo municipalities). The trees were propagated at the Guayanilla nursery as part of the Joint Chiefs Restoration Partnership Initiative.

NRCS Caribbean Area Celebrates World Soil Day

In celebration of World Soil Day, our Caribbean Area conservationists are learning about and discussing hydric soils as one of the three criteria for wetland identification.