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Soil, water conservation program tackled
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Posted on Jan 23 2001
Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture explicitly discussed the soil and water conservation programs of the federal government in a workshop held at Aqua Resort Hotel yesterday.
Expert Charlie Frear, assistant director of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service of Pacific Basin Area together with field officers from various agencies, tackled several problems confronting conservation practices in the Commonwealth.
According to Bill Moran of the District Conservation-NRCS, the workshop was aimed at implementing more soil conservation practices so as not to affect the resources on the ground, including private and public lands.
Mr. Moran said conservation is defined as lands being used and not abused, and problems must be immediately tackled to educate the participants on how to prevent erosion and other land-related problems.
In addition, some of the concerns raised during the workshop are the construction of drainage system in several urban areas, erosion of crop lands among others.
He said the workshop will also provide the USDA and the NRCS, a more concrete and solid evidence on where the program is right now, and the additional concerns that must be immediately resolved.
Facilitators of the workshop also presented to representatives of Department of Land and Natural Resources, Coastal Management Resources, Soil and Water District, Tinian Agrarian, LUTA and the Northern Marianas College-CREES, the history of the conservation movement across the country and local and national cooperative agreements currently in effect.
Experts hoped to bring out in the forefront the conservation relationship of the district office with the federal government and other legislative policies that can enhance various soil and water conservation programs of the local government.
