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Resource conservation is no exception. In fact, given the rapid maturation of public environmental awareness, conservation is a good example of these trends. Governments at all levels are seeking more information about natural and agricultural resource conditions, resource uses, and users. In turn, they are supplying more information than before-in terms of laws, regulations, penalties, incentives, and guidelines-to ensure that individuals manage resources in accordance with society's broadening environmental goals.
As a meeting place between government and citizen, the conservation field office is a place of intense activity and dynamic change in terms of the use and exchange of information. In Wisconsin, the local conservation field office generally houses several agencies, including county extension, SCS, ASCS, and the County Land Conservation Department (LCD), which is equivalent to soil and water conservation districts in other states.
Local field offices across the country were presented with an awesome workload increase with the passage of the 1985 farm act. Much of this new work took the form of identifying, collecting, analyzing, and reporting information of unprecedented volume and variety …
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Stephen J. Ventura is an assistant professor, Department of Soil Science and Institute for Environmental Studies, and David A. Giampetroni is a recent M.S. graduate in the Land Resources Program, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Copyright 1993 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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