USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides services in every county across Colorado. The Agency is committed to helping private landowners care and make healthy choices for the land and water, while using them productively. Through sound conservation planning and voluntary incentive-based programs, NRCS works directly with farmers, ranchers, forest owners and other land stewards to provide technical expertise and financial assistance to ensure successful conservation. NRCS conservation plans are a resource to help farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners reach their land use and conservation goals.

For more than 80 years, the NRCS has worked in partnership with private landowners, local and state governments, and other federal agencies to maintain healthy and productive working lands. NRCS assistance and expertise is based on an understanding that the land – the landscape as a whole – must be the focus of conservation. Using this comprehensive approach, farmers, ranchers, and forest owners are able to help the land function as a living, sustainable system which provides a high standard of living and a quality of life today, and for future generations. The NRCS does much of its work through partnerships and conservation programs associated with the Farm Bill.

Partnerships expand the reach and depth of conservation on the land. The federal, state, and nonprofit groups that comprise the Agency’s conservation partnerships have a diversity of expertise in discipline, area, and focus. As partners in conservation, these groups share their unique areas of expertise and conservation work to put more conservation on the ground.

NRCS provides conservation assistance in cooperation with each of its partners across the state through a locally-led approach. The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA), Colorado State Conservation Board (CSCB), Colorado Association of Conservation Districts (CACD) and the 76 local conservation districts are all critical partners for the Agency.

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