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National Volunteer Week


USMC Vet and Earth Team Volunteer Timothy Bennish Visits with Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan

April 20, 2012 Barb Jansen, NRCS Wisconsin

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan recently visited Viroqua, Wisc. to promote USDA’s new Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass. While she was there, she took the time to meet with Timothy Bennish, a volunteer with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Earth Team...

Conservation

My Earth Team Success Story—the Start of an NRCS Career

April 19, 2012 Adria Smith, NRCS Kansas

I first heard about Earth Team, the volunteer workforce of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) from Eric Banks, the Kansas State Conservationist. Our families go to the same church, and he spoke with my mother about the Earth Team program, recommending I look into getting...

Conservation

Dedicated Volunteers Help Care for Alabama’s Talladega National Forest

April 19, 2012 Karen McKenzie, Shoal Creek District Ranger, Talladega National Forest

Volunteers play an integral part in helping the Forest Service reach its annual goals in managing healthy national forests. And on Alabama’s Talladega National Forest, three exceptional volunteers have dedicated countless hours towards this work: John Calhoun, Ray Bittle and Charles Laminack.

Forestry

Michigan Earth Team Volunteer Enjoys Giving Back

April 18, 2012 Dick Tremain, NRCS

Twice a week, Susan Anderson volunteers a morning or afternoon at the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Big Rapids, Mich. She calls it “giving back.” As a member of NRCS’ Earth Team, the agency’s volunteer workforce, Anderson assists clients, files and helps staff inventory and...

Conservation

Earth Team—Getting Conservation on the Ground

April 12, 2011 Dave White, NRCS Chief

When landowners have resource problems, they turn to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and our conservation partners. And when NRCS has challenges, we often turn to our Earth Team volunteers for help. Our more than 30,000 volunteers assist us with conservation planning and...

Conservation
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