CRSs and CRCs also work closely with the SHPO and other state agencies, private organizations, Department of the Interior, and ACHP to implement new requirements, develop compliance strategies, and establish partnerships and cooperative agreements. Cultural resources provide many important public benefits. They can provide information on solving conservation problems by studying resource use in the past, we can learn which practices were destructive and resulted in depletion of resources and which were successful. They also tell about environmental fluctuations since archaeological sites provide a much longer record of climatic variation than do historic records. Information on rainfall and water flow fluctuations and pollen, plants and sediment studies can assist planners in designing water control projects.
Cultural resources provide insights to the relationship between people and their environments.
By understanding how changing environments affected people in the past, we can better understand our relationship with the natural environment. In addition, cultural resources add to the economic well being of a community. They bring in tourists, increase the tax base with restoration of historic sites, and provide jobs. Diversity Workforce diversity is an integral part of USDA's mission. The USDA Civil Rights Action Team believes that, fundamentally, workforce diversity is an effort to improve the way all employees work together to accomplish USDA's missions.