USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

"In Partnership With People and a Healthy Land"

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), was born in the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, during our nation's worst ecological disaster. Soil scientist Hugh Hammond Bennett convinced the nation that conservation would be successful only if private landowners became part of the effort. NRCS partnered with local conservation districts across the country. We remain a non-regulatory agency working with landowners on a voluntary basis.

When Hammond hired the first employees, he recognized the importance of a multi-resource approach to solving conservation challenges. This philosophy holds true today. Our employees are engineers, biologists, agronomists, range land ecologists, foresters, wildlife managers, soil scientists, conservationists, secretaries, economists, and others.

Landowners request assistance through local field offices and conservation districts. NRCS staff conduct on-site visits with the landowner to see firsthand the resource concerns. Landowner objectives are laid out and conservation options are discussed. NRCS provides technical assistance to solve resources concerns. Often, the Agency can offer the landowner cost-share assistance. This can come from the NRCS, the Conservation District or other partnering agencies.

For six decades we have been working side by side with landowners, conservation districts, state, local, and tribal governments to restore and enhance America's rural and urban landscapes.

In Ferry County we are co-located with the Ferry Conservation District and the USDA Farm Services Agency. Our office is located at 84 E. Delaware Avenue in Republic, WA. We can be reached at 509-775-3473 or toll free at 888-834-7516.