NRCS hosts listening meeting in Dayton

DAYTON–The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington (NRCS) will conduct a meeting for the Snake River Local Working Group (LWG) at the Dayton Best Western Hotel, 507 E. Main St., in Dayton, Wash., on Wednesday, February 14 at 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The NRCS local working group meeting serves as a forum to listen to the residents of Asotin, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, and Walla Walla County Conservation Districts, to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners reach their land conservation goals through completely voluntary, non-regulatory, incentive-and-science based programs.

The LWGs are NRCS's way of listening to people interested in agriculture and natural resources that will best serve local communities across Washington. LWG are composed of agricultural producers, Tribes, owners/operators of nonindustrial private forest land, professionals representing agriculture and natural resource interests, and individuals from a variety of disciplines in the soil, water, wetland, plant, forestry, and wildlife sciences who are interested in agricultural and natural resource issues in their communities. LWG participation is open to the public.