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NRCS Mission:
The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership
in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve
our natural resources and environment.
NRCS helps land users plan and apply integrated resource
management systems that have a positive effect on the quality of the nation's
natural resources, are economically and environmentally sustainable, and
meet mandated requirements. We help public officials develop sound policies
and plans for natural resource development and protection. In all of our
activities, we try to lead people to a greater understanding of the world
around them-of the physical and biological processes that shape it, of
the ways their activities affect it, and of the responsibility all citizens
share to work together to protect it.
NRCS Vision:
Harmony between people and the land
NRCS is guided by an enduring vision of a Nation where use
of resources is governed by a widely shared and deeply felt stewardship
ethic. Like Hugh Hammond Bennett, the father of soil conservation, we
believe that good management of natural resources will make possible "a
more abundant life for the people of the country, both urban and rural,
now and for all time." Our vision includes a quality resource base;
a quality environment that provides people with attractive and satisfying
places to live; and a quality standard of living for all Americans.
Link to NRCS Mission
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Definition of IPM from
the IPM Roadmap:
Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is a long-standing,
science-based, decision-making process that identifies and reduces risks
from pests and pest management related strategies. It coordinates the
use of pest biology, environmental information, and available technology
to prevent unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means,
while posing the least possible risk to people, property, resources, and
the environment. IPM provides an
effective strategy for managing pests in all arenas from developed agricultural,
residential,
and public areas to wild lands. IPM serves as an umbrella to provide an
effective, all
encompassing, low-risk approach to protect resources and people from pests.
Other IPM Definitions
and the definition from the IPM
Roadmap(pdf)
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