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Getting Grounded: How USDA leans on outside groups, retirees to fill conservation staffing gaps

10/20/24 10:00 AM By Noah Wicks

Partnership staff are integral to the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s strategy to meet an expected surge in demand for conservation planning and design work after seeing a $19.5 billion infusion into conservation programs through the Inflation Reduction Act.

Opinion: House farm bill delivers common ground on conservation

05/21/24 11:53 AM By Adam Putnam

In this opinion piece, Adam Putnam, CEO of Ducks Unlimited, highlights why the world’s largest non-profit dedicated to conserving North America’s wetlands and waterfowl habitat supports the voluntary, incentive-based policies included in the House farm bill’s conservation title.

USDA picks groups to help with Climate Corps

05/08/24 6:05 AM By Philip Brasher

Some 28 organizations, government agencies and universities have been picked to host members of USDA’s Working Lands Climate Corps.

Daybreak Feb. 12:Climate Corps moves ahead with new USDA program

02/12/24 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Philip Brasher, and Noah Wicks

The Biden administration is taking a new step today in the development of the American Climate Corps, which is aimed at training a new generation of professionals to work in conservation and climate-related sectors.

New RCPP projects address wide range of resource concerns with emphasis on climate

11/08/23 6:12 AM By Noah Wicks

The Agriculture Department, state agencies, private companies and non-profits are preparing to distribute $1.1 billion through 81 new Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects.

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Opinion: Congress should build on CRP’s impressive record of success

08/18/23 2:18 PM By Collin O’Mara, Marilyn Vetter, Whit Fosburgh, and Adam Putnam

In this opinion piece, Collin O’Mara of the National Wildlife Federation, Whit Fosburgh of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Marilyn Vetter of Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever and Adam Putnam of Ducks Unlimited discuss how Congress can continue to build on the Conservation Reserve Program’s success in addressing conservation challenges while benefiting farmers, wildlife and the environment.

Hunting, fishing groups focused on maintaining conservation funding in next farm bill

02/22/23 6:14 AM By Noah Wicks

Hunting and angling groups enter the farm bill debate looking to protect funding for Title II programs and ensure fish and wildlife conservation efforts are given the same stature as soil and water within Agriculture Department programs.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Schwalbe joins NPPC

11/30/22 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The National Pork Producers Council has added Julie Schwalbe to its team and Ryan Heiniger has been tapped as the new executive director of the Conservation Technology Information Center.

Daybreak May 4: Green pressure on ag has USDA performing 'balancing act'

05/04/22 10:00 AM By Bill Tomson

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA is walking a fine line as it navigates competing pressures to produce more food, keep growers profitable and address climate change.

Waterfowl groups look to preserve small wetlands with EQIP initiative

04/06/22 6:15 AM By Noah Wicks

Conservation groups hoping to preserve waterfowl habitat on more than 800,000 acres of land have proposed a $375 million Environmental Quality Incentives Program initiative that would pay farmers to conserve small wetlands and flood rive fields after harvest.

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