Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA)
2007 Accomplishments
With the mission of "Helping People Help the
Land", the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides products and
services that enable people to be good stewards of the land. With our help
people are better able to conserve, maintain or improve our natural resources.
Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA) is the
basic foundation for NRCS activities. Our locally-based NRCS staff works
directly with farmers and others to provide technical and financial conservation
assistance. Our guiding principles are service, partnership and technical
excellence.
CTA provides technical assistance supported by
science-based technology and tools to help people conserve, maintain, and
improve their natural resources. The CTA Program provides the technical
capability, including direct conservation planning, design, and implementation
assistance, that helps people plan and apply conservation on the land. This
assistance is provided to individuals, groups, and communities who make natural
resource management decisions on private, tribal, and other non-federal lands.
NRCS, through the CTA Program, provides conservation technical assistance that
addresses natural resource conservation issues at the local level that are of
State and national concern. CTA pays for approximately 52% of the technical
assistance provided by NRCS employees nationwide.
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Highlights of 2007 CTA Accomplishments:
| Conservation Practice |
Planned |
Applied |
| |
|
|
| Conservation Plans (acres) |
30,009 |
23,352 |
| Conservation Plans (number) |
202 |
164 |
| Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans Written
(number) |
42 |
|
| Access Roads (feet) |
15,213 |
|
| Conservation Crop Rotation (acres) |
3,377 |
2,329 |
| Cover Crop (acres) |
1,002 |
237 |
| Diversion |
2,310 |
|
| Early Successional Habitat Development
Management (acres) |
2,160 |
|
| Fencing (feet) |
34,189 |
|
| Field Border (feet) |
162,200 |
|
| Fish Passages (number) |
|
|
| Forage Harvest Management (acres) |
6,478 |
4,066 |
| Forest Stand Improvement (acres) |
2,714 |
954 |
| Lined Waterway or Outlet (feet) |
1,565 |
|
| Nutrient Management (acres) |
8,613 |
4,502 |
| Pest Management (acres) |
2,583 |
2,213 |
| Pipeline (feet) |
6,809 |
1,400 |
| Riparian Forest Buffer (acres) |
98 |
81 |
| Streambank and Shoreline Protection (feet) |
5,100 |
5,000 |
| Subsurface Drain (feet) |
9,925 |
|
| Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
(acres) |
5,219 |
1,670 |
| Waste Storage Facilities (number) |
13 |
4 |
| Waste Utilization (acres) |
2,553 |
1,408 |
| Watering Facilities (number) |
12 |
|
| Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management (acres) |
7,573 |
6,612 |
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