NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE MARKS 70th ANNIVERSARY, GOVERNOR HUCKABEE SIGNS PROCLAMATION PROCLAMING APRIL 27 CONSERVATION DAY

LITTLE ROCK – Governor Mike Huckabee has proclaimed April 27 as Conservation Day in Arkansas in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

“Conservation practices carried out by farmers, ranchers and other landowners in Arkansas have improved the quality of life and built stronger rural communities. Our food supply, water and air have improved tremendously,” said Kalven Trice, state conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Arkansas.

“Arkansas is a state blessed with a wealth of diverse and extraordinary natural resources that provide safe drinking water, recreation, wildlife habitat, commerce, aquaculture and irrigation for cropland. Protecting and maintaining these valuable resources are essential to the well-being and livelihood of all its residents as well as future generations of Arkansans,” Trice said.

The anniversary’s theme, “A Partner in Conservation Since 1935,” reflects the agency’s mission – providing leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain and improve our natural resources and environment.

NRCS was created as the Soil Conservation Service within USDA April 27, 1935 in response to the devastation of the Dust Bowl on the nation’s agricultural land. The agency’s primary mission then was to conserve soil on agricultural land. It became NRCS in 1994 to better reflect its expanded role of servicing other natural resources such as soil, water, air, plans and animals on private and tribal lands. 

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