1. Helping You Care for the Land The Natural Resources Conservation Service—

2. An Iowa Farm

3. Traditional products

4. Conservation farm “products” Water Soil Animals Plants

5. Benefits for everyone Quality food Recreation Clean water Healthy Plants

6. Benefits for everyone Wildlife Clean air

7. For the future Conservation efforts now can ensure benefits for tomorrow.

8. Private Lands Conservation More than 95 percent of Iowa’s land is privately owned.

9. Conservation affects us all More than 90 percent of Iowa’s drinking water passes over private lands.

11. Working together NRCS works with landusers to protect and improve natural resources on private lands.

12. NRCS Mission To provide leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.

13. Our employees Skilled technical specialists

14. Our employees Committed to conservation and customers

15. Our customers Farmers, ranchers, and many other landusers

16. Our customers Rural and urban communities Federal, state, and local agencies Policymakers Special-use districts American Indian tribes

17. Our Partners Soil & Water Conservation Districts

19. Our Partners Iowa Conservation Partnership Conservation Districts of Iowa (CDI) State Conservation Committee Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship, Division of Soil Conservation (DSC)

20. Our partners A large and diverse group Universities Commodity groups Professional societies Environmental groups Agricultural organizations Local, state and federal agencies

21. Our partners Earth Team Volunteers Work in office, on the land, schools Help with conservation work

22. Our partners Earth Team Volunteers Get involved! Call 1-888-LANDCARE Learn new skills

23. Legacy of conservation Soil Conservation Service, now the NRCS, was established in 1935.

24. Legacy of Conservation

25. Programs and Services Conservation Operations Resources Conservation and Development Soil Surveys National Resources Inventory Emergency Watershed Protection Small Watershed Programs

26. Conservation operations Technical assistance

27. Technical assistance Conservation planningInventory/ assessment

28. RC&D Resource Conservation & Development Work locally to improve economic, social, and natural resources 15 multi-county RC&D areas in Iowa

29. Soil Surveys Published scientific inventories provide limitations and uses of soils Assist landusers make resource management decisions

30. NRI National Resources Inventory Evaluates resource conditions and trends Helps Americans make wise land use and management decisions

31. EWP Emergency Watershed Protection Helps protect lives and property following natural disasters Converts floodprone land to other uses

32. Small Watershed Programs Helps improve natural resources in small watersheds

33. 1996 Farm Bill Programs Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program Environmental Quality Incentives Program Conservation Reserve Program Wetlands Reserve Program

34. WHIP Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program Improve habitat for fish and wildlife

35. EQIP Environmental Quality Incentives Program Address serious threats to natural resources

36. CRP Conservation Reserve Program Establish permanent vegetation on environmentally sensitive cropland

37. WRP Wetlands Reserve Program Restore and protect wetlands

38. Iowans Meet Challenges

39. Conservation Achievements

40. The Future

41. For more information Contact your local NRCS office Contact your local Soil and Water Conservation District office Visit the NRCS homepage at www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov

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