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### Engineering in the Soil Conservation Service

Engineering has played an essential part in meeting NRCS' mission objectives.

LandPlantsSoilWater

### Environmental Markets at NRCS

Environmental markets are an approach that can be used to help landowners get conservation on the ground. While NRCS has substantial funding to dedicate to private lands conservation, environmental markets complement NRCS’s work by bringing private and other non-Federal investments to private lands.

### EQIP Advance Payment Option

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) advance payment option limits out-of-pocket conservation costs for historically underserved producers.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program

### EQIP Fact Sheet

EQIP helps farmers maintain or improve production while conserving natural resources on working landscapes.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program

### Equity Conservation Outreach Cooperative Agreements - Fiscal Year 2022

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invested $50 million in 118 partnerships to expand access to conservation assistance for climate-smart agriculture and forestry in fiscal year 2022.

### Equity in Conservation Outreach Projects 2023

USDA is investing up to $70 million in cooperative agreements to support outreach to underserved producers and communities about opportunities with NRCS for natural resource conservation, climate-smart agriculture and forestry.

### EWP Sponsor Resources

Resources for EWP Program assistance.

Emergency Watershed Protection

### Explore New Mexico in the Interactive Map

The Interactive Map Conditions Interface allows users to display current and historical snow water equivalent, snow depth, precipitation, reservoir storage, and streamflow data collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service and other monitoring agencies.

New Mexico

### Farm Bill Factsheet

NRCS works with partners to set aside a certain pool of funding for an awarded project. Producers, landowners, and partners then enter into producer contracts and supplemental agreements with NRCS to carry out agreed-to conservation activities.

### Feed Management (Au.) (592) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Feed Management (Au.) (592).

Animals

### Fence (Ft.) (382) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Fence (Ft.) (382).

AnimalsRange & Pasture

### Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils

Standards for observing and recording soil and site characteristics.

Soil

### Field Border (Ac.) (386) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Field Border (Ac.) (386).

CroplandsForbsGrassesLegumesShrubs

### Field Indicators of Hydric Soils

A Guide for Identifying and Delineating Hydric Soils, Version 8.2

Soil

Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG)
Technical guides are the primary scientific references for NRCS. They contain technical information about the conservation of soil, water, air, and related plant and animal resources.

### Field Operations Emissions Reduction (Ac.) (376) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Field Operations Emissions Reduction (Ac.) (376).

AirCroplands

### Filter Strip (Ac.) (393) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Filter Strip (Ac.) (393).

PlantsWater

### Fire Recovery - Montana Resources

Information from NRCS Montana on wildfire recovery.

Montana

### Firebreak (Ft.) (394) Conservation Practice Standard

Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Firebreak (Ft.) (394).

LandForestry

### FIRI - Version 1.2

Field Irrigation Rating Index approximates or quantifies approximate water conservation through changes made to irrigation systems or through management.

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