**Human Capital Survey**

**December 2005**

> **Question 12**
>
> Question: What partner groups should be more involved in your work?
>
> Response: Other\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

1.  Managers of the agency need to be more aware of science and
    technology.

2.  Agricultural and earth scientists

3.  Technical Centers

4.  Depends on the job do be done

5.  not sure

6.  NRCS personnel

7.  staff

8.  Cooperative Extension

9.  Intertribal Ag Council

10. more NRCS staff

11. No one has the specifice expertise

12. ADEQUATE NRCS STAFF!!!

13. soil survey team

14. not sure

15. Council members

16. Full time Administrative personel are needed in each field team to
    take care of the red tape type details that need attention and
    hinder real efficient work

17. Full time administrative support employees

18. Wildlife organizations

19. The cost for TSP involvement is much too high.

20. It\'s our work, we either need to hire more of our own employees or
    cut back on programs.

21. researchers

22. unsure

23. local government

24. need more NRCS employees

25. Farmers themselves

26. Business Sector

27. Added personnel

28. not applicable to my specific job

29. Student Interns

30. more staff

31. local govt is decisions are made in my state

32. student trainees

33. additional full time NRCS employees

34. Private contractors

35. Stop shifting work, lets do it ourselves and be accountable!

36. Adequate Staff in Field Office

37. Better support from employees within my own agency.

38. municipal governments

39. own agency co workers

40. The soil consv. tech is a valued position to field offices

41. local town planninng boards

42. Private contractors

43. For question #11 above, the percentages add up to more than 100%. My
    work is tremendously magnified by all of the partners who are
    helping accomplish RC&D goals that they

44. new hires

45. groups such as cattlemen associations, 4-H, FFA

46. National level employees

47. Does not apply

48. My position is Area Resouce Conservationist - a staff position

49. does not apply to admin staff

50. Cooperative Extension

51. Don\'t know.

52. The public

53. To utilize TSPs requires adeqaute funds.

54. Watershed Sponsors

55. more full time staff!!

56. Community leaders

57. Nore NRCS employees in the FIELD

58. additional NRCS personnel

59. partnerships are important in this business, but my particular job
    is so specific as to make this question not applicable

60. More employee

61. I know it\'s not going to happen but I think FSA should take back
    the financial side of programs and leave the technical part to NRCS

62. Hire field personel

63. if it is important maybe we should hire people to do it,

64. TSP what a joke

65. More federal employees or less work

66. USDA TECHNICANS

67. Current policy is divisive, and proprietary, and does not encourage
    participation of other groups.

68. more NRCS staff

69. other federal employees

70. Local Government

71. Need more agency people in the field

72. We should be able to do our own work. NRCS should clearly define
    what we are going to do and hire enough people to do the job. The
    partnership with Conservation Districts is causing many problems
    between NRCS employees and SWCD folks. Who is in charge?

73. Already have an excellent District Staff.

74. Hire more Agency personnel

75. additional fte

76. Additional permanent employees

77. County Soil Technician

78. Clerical Staff

79. county agreements for personnel

80. county employees

81. County Employees

82. District Conservationists

83. Local government officials

84. Water Mangement Districts

85. County employees

86. Other agencies State and Federal /more cooperation

87. more NRCS employees

88. More Full Time NRCS Employees

89. RC&D Partners

90. Education

91. Need more people or reduce programatic responsibility

92. STEP students

93. Increased staff

94. NRCS should have additional employees on staff.

95. more full time employees

96. More Federal Employees

97. Additional NRCS employees need to be hired to handle the workload

98. Additional NRCS employee

99. more nrcs employees

100. More NRCS staff

101. farm operator organizations

102. Not applicable at this time

103. professional groups

104. student workers

105. RC&D Councils

106. More Minority and grassroots Organizations

107. Special Interest Groups

108. More NRCS employees

109. Hire NRCS Technicians

110. More NRCS employees

111. DC\'s

112. NRCS Area and STATE OFFICE TECHNICAL STAFFS

113. You shuold do your own work!

114. Extension agency

115. need more nrcs staff

116. FTE\'s

117. ours

118. more NRCS employees

119. Cooperative Extension employees

120. rural economic development, extension

121. More NRCS employees- more control over quality

122. If the non-profit group wasn\'t so involved, I\'d have a full-time
     vs. part-time position

123. More Fed employees

124. Retired Fed Emplyees

125. Local government

126. generally,,,outside agencies add to work load with technecial and
     reaserch requests

127. Forget TSP, HIRE more employees!!!

128. change ethic policies so that agency (federal) employees can do
     more

129. District Conservationists

130. RC&D

131. data entry personal

132. graduate students helping on research projects to collect field
     data

133. Our own agency personnel given credit for assisting in their job
     description

134. Landowner/ producers

135. FSA

136. Area and State office employees

137. Technical service providers as long as it does not create another
     oversite responsibilty for NRCS. If not, it creates just more
     workload.

138. State Conservation Departments

139. More NRCS employees

140. RC&D Council Members

141. Need more computer data entry employees

142. Anyone with an interest in conservation issues and projects should
     be welcome to assist in our work

143. #11 above is a really messed-up question

144. The area and state staff

145. local government

146. Private Companies

147. Need WAE and more cons technicians

148. More Federal NRCS employees

149. If you were given the job of getting a space ship to the moon who
     would you hire? You would hire someone you trusted and someone that
     you fully controlled.

150. This agency needs real employees. WHY NOT UTILIZE FSA PERSONNEL
     DISPLACED BY NRCS PROGRAM ACTIVITY?

151. Producer organizations

152. If the job is important enough to do, then the agency should hire
     enough people to do it.

153. State Office Staff

154. Soil Cons

155. Why should other groups be involved in my work? I\'m capable of
     doing the job I\'m paid to do..

156. more NRCS employees

157. More full time employees not being moved.

158. Technical Service Offices

159. More NRCS Staffing

160. retirees

161. This agency should hire enough people to carry out or jobs, or cut
     back on our responsibilities

162. Two many agencies doing same job seperartly

163. ARS

164. More NRCS PFT employees

165. City, County and other local governments

166. Area Office staff

167. Extension Service

168. None, let NRCS do it. My opinion is partners come in and over time
     change the mission and objectives of the agency.

169. trainees

170. industry

171. UNKOWN

172. Producer and conservation groups

173. professional groups

174. media

175. Hire qualified University personnel

176. legal counsel to assist with interpreting contract law

177. Other NRCS Departments

178. Residue Alliances

179. High School seniors.

180. Hire enough employees to meet workload demands

181. additional NRCS employees

182. I am not sure at this time what other partners would be helpful in
     obtaining my work goals.

183. new employee\'s

184. more NRSC employees

185. Data entry personnel for the field office

186. student trainees (SCEP program)

187. We have become program driven

188. Corps of Engineers - US Fish and Wildlife Service

189. Trained NRCS Employees

190. Partners cannot do the type of work I do

191. Local government

192. Not sure that any outside group can help do my job

193. We should do our own work!

194. High School Students

195. Hire whom we need. Quite using others to do our assigned jobs.

196. Our SCD has their own agenda with limited amount of time to help
     NRCS

197. Adequate staffing of offices

198. national office - more guidance

199. hire more permanent NRCS employees

200. Architectal & Engineering Firms

201. Contractors

202. Commodity groups, such as cattlemen, corn growers, etc.

203. Consultants

204. Our own employees should be doing their own work. I do work outside
     of my speciality for our own employees.

205. Watershed Districts

206. NA

207. Agricultural Research Service

208. Wildlife groups.

209. permanent employees

210. Area Engineer

211. Additional NRCS staff

212. Area office personnel

213. Hire more full time employees, ie. soil con tech

214. irrigation Districts, water users

215. mor assistance from some of the ones mentioned above

216. ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR NRCS

217. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION

218. county employees

219. not quite sure

220. More federal staff in our agency

221. More NRCS employees/Specialists

222. Hire more people to accomplish the workload.

223. supervisor and management

224. Need more tech. position employees

225. Landowners

226. contract out for services more

227. Field Office employees

228. Additional Full-time Employees

229. Local People

230. Landowners

231. More NRCS Employees

232. more NRCS staff

233. Local Engineering firms vs state hired

234. Volunteers

235. SWCS

236. Coop Extension

237. maybe students or interns?

238. We rely to much on

239. I get a lot of project work done but have no office assistant to
     help me on the paperwork.

240. agency staff that are hired to do program work at the field level

241. Need more FO NRCS Employees!!!

242. field office employees

243. State Technical Advisory Committee

244. Adequate staffing in the field would help most.

245. Need enough NRCS employees to get the work done.

246. NRCS State Office

247. I think the NRCS workforce should be increased.

248. This changes depending on the project areas we are working in.

249. contractors

250. The NRCS management located in Washington DC shold be required to
     spend one month in field office an write at least one Conservation
     Plan working with a land owner who relies only on the land for
     their income.

251. Extension Service

252. I\'m in a temp in administration

253. good mix for what we are doing- always growing

254. NRCS Permanent employee

255. Producers

256. Producers

257. NRCS Employees

258. We need to provide adequate personnel to achieve agency goals we
     cannot depend on others to do our job

259. City/County

260. Private business

261. State Office Specialists

262. farm/ranch groups

263. We do not get any Engineering assistance to our field office.

264. With the given workforce we need to have partners help with our
     work, but I would rather do my job with NRCS staff. We pay TSP\'s
     more to do the same work that our agency is capable of doing.

265. I am the temporary employee so i dont know

266. Hire our own.

267. More NRCS employees

268. NRCS FTE\'s

269. we need more engineers where the workload exists

270. Student Trainees

271. Extension Service Employees

272. Resource Conservation & Development

273. Other disciplines within our own agency

274. Agricultural Research Service

275. admin support

276. Private sector companies

277. Research Scientists,ie soil moisture

278. Agricultural Research Service personnel

279. Private Sector & Media

280. State office personell

281. partner groups should complement, not compete, with or for our
     work.

282. I do work for all our partners.

283. Student trainies

284. Farm Bureau

285. Businesses

286. I don\'t know

287. More NRCS employees

288. NRCS 01 staff, NRCS Range Conservationists, NRCS foresters

289. nrcs state office

290. state office

291. licensed private consultants

292. Cooperation with FSA spreads workload for some administrative
     activities, such as leasing.

293. Landowners (more involvement at field level)

294. local municipal government

295. Area and State NRCS support staff.

296. Agricultural growers and grower groups

297. Non-profit groups

298. Spiritual mentors

299. County employees

300. University/College Students - Summer Internships

301. Local County

302. More employees

303. Better figure out how to attract & retain Engineers!

304. NRCS employees in my state

305. private sector, Certified erosion &sediment control specialists,
     businesses that sell and/or install conservation products, local
     units of gov\'t

306. More administrative Assistance

307. nrcs cluster positions

308. Addtional Staff in Field Office

309. GIS Specialists and Remote Sensing Specialists

310. Additional federal employees

311. hire more agency personnel

312. Local Community Involvement

313. We just need more NRCS People

314. unsure because i\'m new to the job

315. hire more qualified personnel - duh!

316. do not know

317. Office employees

318. Industry Representatives

319. I\'m too new to this department to know.

320. Need additional NRCS employees

321. NRCS needs to hire more employees to handle workload. Our work
     requires employees with training and experiece to accomplish our
     mission. TSP for the most part do not accomplish the extire job
     needed. Their services are only temporary and short term.

322. Young Students Interested in Conservation

323. Producer Groups

324. secretary

325. More NRCS employees

326. full time NRCS employees

327. Minorities

328. Extension Agents

329. publication specialists

330. Other permanent federal employees

331. Not applicable to what I do.

332. Three of the above:Conservation Districts, Non-profit groups,
     Technical Service Providers could all assist, but require
     compensation which I have been unable to get approved

333. Additional FTE\'s

334. Supervisor and employees

335. State NRCS staff personnel

336. A&E Firms

337. We need a full time person for the position a student has had for
     several years. This does not work out for our staff!

338. Researchers

339. ag and commodity organizations

340. Student Employees

341. agency program managers

342. Internal personnel before they retire, with transfer of knowledge.
     The agency should have such a program .

343. NRCS Employees

344. Contractors

345. RC&D Council members

346. Technical Assistance from neighboring NRCS Offices

347. rc&D

348. Higher level NRCS employees

349. Other NRCS employees not yet hired

350. county and city governments

351. Many of the above could be involved in strategic/long range
     planning.

352. Additional permanent clerical position

353. Commodity and Farm Groups

354. Cooperative Extension Service

355. Administrative Staff of agency

356. OWN NRCS EMPLOYEES

357. corporate orgs

358. financial and IT specialists outside of this agency

359. Technicians within the agency

360. NRCS employees

361. Soil conservationist

362. LOCAL UOG

363. ?

364. Cooperative Extension

365. coop work study / grad students

366. NHQ Dvision Directors &Dep Chiefs

367. local units of gov.

368. We should provide enough to do our own work.

369. reinstate NRCS field technicians

370. All of the above

371. STEP students

372. Industry

373. Local units of Government

374. Agency Leadership

375. other divisons within NRCS

376. Other NHQ Deputy Areas

377. Non-governmental organizations

378. Other NRCS divisions/centers; contractors who are not necessarily
     TSPs

379. private sector

380. contractors

381. Other Team members

382. unk

383. private sector

384. N/A

385. Disabilities

386. State Ethics Advisors

387. More Staff

388. SENIOR MANAGEMENT

389. d

390. permanent team leader

391. NRCS college-raised tmeporary employees

392. All the above

393. More permanent NRCS employees-we know our work best

394. I provide GIS assistance to Service Centers

395. NHQ

396. contract

397. More NRCS employees

398. We desperately need more NRCS employees working in the field
     office!

399. Additional NRCS full time employees.

400. How about more involvement with employees within the agency? There
     is insufficient interaction intra-agency.

401. Engineers

402. State leadership Team

403. Need more coordination from NRCS

404. Admin position

405. More NRCS staff

406. Let \'ME\' work First\....Please.

407. We should supply the staff or get out of the way.

408. n/a

409. More NRCS Staff

410. more NRCS employees