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63rd Annual WACD CONVENTION
November 18-20,
2008
Gillette, WY
Ralph Brokaw, President of WACD for the past four years, said,
in his opening remarks, that upon becoming president of the
state association he soon realized that the greatness of Wyoming
districts is in her people.
In discussing improving watershed health across the state, which
is a high priority for conservation districts, Brokaw said,
“It’s the passion of the local people that gives our efforts
their credibility and when we start to implement local watershed
plans, actual management changes on the landscape, voluntary
implementation of those plans by local stakeholders will bring
about positive results to individual watersheds across the
state. “Conservation districts have demonstrated that working
lands conservation does work and that agriculture can provide
conservation benefits to the land that no other land use can.”
“We can build on our successes to demonstrate that our
conservation practices and plans are the single best alternative
to address resource concerns,” Brokaw said.
Arlen Lancaster, Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., related three
priorities that he has laid out as Chief of the NRCS. Those
priorities are: (1) to make conservation easier, (2) to bring
more accountability to what the agency does in helping farmers
and ranchers apply conservation on private lands, and (3) to
make sure that, as an agency, NRCS can meet the challenges.
2008 Convention Presentations
Steve Robinson, NACD President Elect
Olin Sims
Tree Planting
Debbie Hughes -
Restore New Mexico
Laura Sands - "Not your fathers carbon market"
Sandie
Spence - Environmental Protection Agency
Wally Dodds - Upper Sevier
Watershed Management Plan
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