1. Natural Resources Conservation Service An Agency of USDA

2. High Quality, Productive Soils to enable sustained production of a safe, healthy, and abundant food supply. High Quality, Productive Soils to enable sustained production of a safe, healthy, and abundant food supply. NRCSs Mission Goals

3. Clean and Abundant Water to protect human health, support a healthy environment, encourage a productive landscape, and ensure an abundant and reliable water supply Clean and Abundant Water to protect human health, support a healthy environment, encourage a productive landscape, and ensure an abundant and reliable water supply

4. Healthy Plant and Animal Communities to provide habitats for diverse and healthy wildlife, aquatic species, and plant communities; protect water quality; and reduce flood damages. Healthy Plant and Animal Communities to provide habitats for diverse and healthy wildlife, aquatic species, and plant communities; protect water quality; and reduce flood damages.

5. Clean Air to make a positive contribution to local air quality and the Nations effort to sequester carbon. Clean Air to make a positive contribution to local air quality and the Nations effort to sequester carbon.

6. Adequate Energy Supply to conserve energy and be a source of environmentally sustainable biofuels and renewable energy. Adequate Energy Supply to conserve energy and be a source of environmentally sustainable biofuels and renewable energy.

7. Working Farm and Ranch Lands to sustain a viable agricultural sector and natural resource quality. Working Farm and Ranch Lands to sustain a viable agricultural sector and natural resource quality.

8. Partner with other local, state and federal agencies to provide natural resource conservation to private lands in Rhode Island.

9. Habitat Restoration and Management: working with CRMC on restoration projects – Gooseneck Cove, Blackstone River Fish Passage Restoration, Walker Farm Restoration Project

10. Stream and Riparian Restoration and Management

11. Conservation Planning: Provide planning assistance to CRMC through the CRMC SAMPs

12. Flood Plain Management

13. Soil Survey and Interpretations

14. Plant Materials and Crop Management

15. J. Eric Scherer State Resource Conservationist USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service 60 Quaker Lane, Suite 46 Warwick, RI 02886 TEL (401) 822-8814 FAX (401) 828-0433 e-mail: eric.scherer@ri.usda.gov