For The Dolores Star

The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) plans to hold a local work group meeting for Dolores Conservation District in Montezuma County at 1-3 p.m. on Aug. 6 in the First National Bank Conference Room, 2258 E. Main St., Cortez.

The meeting is open to the public.

The work group will focus on identifying local agricultural and natural resource issues and providing information and feedback to direct NRCS programs. Participants can be agricultural producers, owners of private agricultural lands, including nonindustrial private forest land, and representatives of agricultural organizations, environmental organizations, and governmental agencies carrying out environmental, agricultural, or natural resource conservation programs and activities.

Local work groups are subcommittees of the NRCS State Technical Committee. They meet annually to provide recommendations on local natural resource priorities to assist USDA NRCS in providing Farm Bill conservation programs in Colorado.