WSP09781

• File Number: 8273.600
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - USDA
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 2/1/1995
• Title: The Waterline
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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The U,S, Department of Agriculture (USDA) Soil
Conservation Service has changed it's neme to the
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), The
new agency was authorized as part of the USDA's
reorganization, The new name reflects more accurately
what the agency does, as the responsibilities have been
more than soli conservation for some time,

The vision and mission for natural resources
programs within USDA has not changed with this
reorganization, The vision will remain the same: A
productive nation in harmony with a quality
environment.

More than two-thirds of the land in this country is
privately owned, The private landowners are the key to
our environmental well-being, The Natural Resources
Conservation Service will continue to build on our sixty
years of experience with a unique relationship between
the federal government end the landowners, as well as
our partnership with local conservation districts,

The new Natural Resources Conservation Service
will continue to have responsibility for all the programs
of the former Soil Conservation Service, In addition,
several other programs have been transferred to it:

-The Wetlands Reserve Program
-The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
-The Water Bank Program
-The Forestry Incentives Program
-The Farmers for the Future Program

The Natural Resources Conservation Service will
increasingiy look at all resources on private lands as its
resource conservationists help private landowners on a
voluntary basis, The land is the core constituent and
the Natural Resources Conservation Service will be the
American people's link to private lands as helping care
takers of the land, What done on the vast acreage of
private lands encompasses much of our water, our
forest, our wildlife, our air and our quality of life,

Lloyd Reed
Soil Conservationist
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
Grand Junction Field Office

LANDSCAPES WEST '95

Have you had a problem deciding which nursery
plantings to use for your home or business area?

.Color for All Seasons. is the theme of a workshop
scheduled for February 25 and 26, 1995, at the Holiday
Inn at Grand Junction,

The program is sponsored by the Colorado State
University Cooperative Extension (Tri-River Area) and
the Associated Landscape contractors of Colorado
(Western Chapter),

Presentation subjects include . HOW TO lANDSCAPE
FOR FOUR SEASONS", "TREES, SHRUBS, AND
VINES", "GROUND COVERS & ORNAMENTAL
GRASSES FOR FOUR SEASONS", "CONTAINER
GARDENING., "CONSTANT COLOR WITH PERENNIALS
& ANNUALS., .NATIVE PLANTS FOR FOUR
SEASONS., .RENOVATING OLD lANDSCAPES',
"WATERWISE WilDLIFE GARDENING", "MAINTAINING
THE LANDSCAPE", "INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE XERISCAPE
& FIRESAFE XERISCAPE:" and "GARDEN GATES,
WALKS, &STRUCTURES",

A special Saturday evening bonus session Is scheduled
to start at 5:30 p,m, featuring XerlBcape: Good Grief
It's GorgeouBI < An Introduction to Waterwise
Landscaping> by Jim Knopf of Boulder, Mr, Knopf is a
landscape architect specializing in Rocky Mountain
Xeriscape design,

For more information and a registration package on this
interesting workshop call [phone],

Richard Bartholomay
Extension Agent - Irrigation [phone]

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