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    • Technical Certification Programs Does your state have one or more technical certification programs for conservation delivery professionals? If so, briefly describe the programs and who operates them. Thank you.

      Started by: Mike Brown

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    • 6 years ago

      Colleen Meredith

    • Members or districts holding conservation easements Hi all! Do any NASCA members out there (or your state’s conservation districts) hold conservation easements or participate in securing or monitoring conservation easements of any kind? This could be Farm Bill easements, state program easements on ag lands or forest lands, conservation planning for easements or monitoring compliance with easement terms in some way. Any and all information you can share about this topic and your experiences with it in your state would be much appreciated. Thanks all!

      Started by: Shana Joy

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    • 6 years ago

      Colleen Meredith

    • Partner Survey Questions Have any of our members conducted any studies or surveys to determine why partners and potential partners work with or choose not to work with conservation districts? If so, what questions were used in these efforts?

      Started by: Mike Brown

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    • 6 years, 3 months ago

      Jackie Thomas

    • Job Approval Authority Does your State have a system that assigns Job Approval Authority to state and/or local government staff for State conservation programs, independent of the NRCS? If so, how was the system authorized, and how is it structured? Doug Thomas, Minnesota

      Started by: Doug Thomas

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    • 6 years, 5 months ago

      Marty Comstock

    • District-owned park areas One of our conservation districts was “given” an historic 5 acre parcel of overgrown trees and decadent landscaping. It cost 10’s of $1,000’s to bring the landscape back to an acceptable standard and an historic building must be demolished and replaced. They are interested in knowing of other conservation districts that might manage parcels and how they offer it for use by the community and/or program it for conservation education purposes. If you have a district in your state that might be programming areas like this, would you let me know so we can have a conversation with them? Thanks!

      Started by: Cindy Lair

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    • 6 years, 5 months ago

      Susan Metzger

    • CD health insurance plans Montana CD’s are looking for advice on group health insurance plans that other states may have for the conservation districts. Are your CD employees offered health insurance? Does your state association carry the overall plan, do individual CD’s? If you do have health insurance, what kind of premiums are you looking at? Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated as well! Thank you for any info you can provide!

      Started by: Karl Christians

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    • 6 years, 6 months ago

      Frank Minch

    • Conservation District Dissolution Process Have any State Agencies gone through an actual district dissolution process to legally dissolve a conservation district? Our state statute has a terribly onerous process and I am interested how other states compare. Any information from a state that has actually implemented a legal process would be appreciated. We thought of helping them become “inactive” but it may not be in the state or districts best legal interest. Thanks! Cindy

      Started by: Cindy Lair

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    • 6 years, 7 months ago

      Bill Smith

    • brochures and license plates Would anyone mind sharing samples of brochures that individual NRCD’s use that folks think are successful? Also do other states have license plates that generate revenue for districts and what do they look like? I am facilitating an art contest and then working with a graphic designer. I am interested if other states have conservation vanity plates and how they designed them.

      Started by: Jackie Thomas

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    • 6 years, 9 months ago

      Bill Smith

    • Urban Conservation Planner The Oklahoma Conservation Commission recently entered into an agreement with NRCS to hire an Urban Conservation Planner for the Oklahoma City metro area. Do any of you have a job description for an Urban Conservation Planner that you can share with me?

      Started by: Lisa Knauf Owen

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    • 6 years, 9 months ago

      Bill Smith

    • District Supervisor travel/per diem I am working on a project in West Virginia and need help! Can you all tell me how district supervisors in your states are compensated? I am looking for the following: 1. Does your state contribute and/or set supervisor travel and per diem? 2. If yes, does the state contribution cover all or a portion of the annual cost? 3. If no, how are travel and per diem rates set? 4. What are your state’s travel and per diem rates? I’m sure I’m missing something, and may need to circle back to you all, but I would appreciate all the help I can get from you all. Thanks, Brian

      Started by: Brian Farkas

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    • 6 years, 11 months ago

      Colleen Meredith

    • SWCD Board Member Election Question Ohio currently has a policy in place for local SWCD elections that requires at least 1 more person to run than the number of SWCD board member positions up for election. In other words if one position is up for election the policy requires at least 2 people to run for the position. Would be interested in hearing from other states on this. Do you have a requirement similar to this?

      Started by: Rob Hamilton

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    • 7 years, 8 months ago

      Bill Eller

    • Annual Conservation Farm Contests West Virginia is working to update, improve its annual conservation farm contest. Do any of you have such a contest in your state, and can you provide links to judging criteria, etc.?

      Started by: Brian Farkas

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    • 8 years, 1 month ago

      David Williams

    • Conservation District Policy Handbook After an excellent presentation by Mike Brown at our annual association state meeting we have received numerous calls about the development of conservation district policy manuals. Have any of your districts (or state agencies) created policy manuals that would be available to share? -Edit- If you have any documents to share, please email them to aandrews@nascanet.org and I will place them in this thread

      Started by: Lisa Knauf Owen

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    • 8 years, 1 month ago

      Ray Ledgerwood

    • Mentorship Have any of the SCDs in your state utilized a mentorship program to recruit or orient new SCD officials?

      Started by: Louise Lawrence

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    • 8 years, 2 months ago

      Bill Smith

    • Soil Health Policies I am interested in finding out if any of our States have a soil health policy either on the books or part of an agency plan. If the answer is yes I am hoping you can provide me with a link or copy of the document. There seems to be a growing interest here in Minnesota to articulate the soil and water conservation benefits of soil health into a State policy. Doug Thomas, Assistant Director MN Board of Water and Soil Resources doug.thomas@state.mn.us

      Started by: Doug Thomas

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    • 8 years, 10 months ago

      Bill Smith

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