The Road to Conservation Starts at Home!
Text Box: The key, then, is how to employ technology in a manner that enhances opportunities for interpersonal contacts and streamlines delivery of conservation products and services. Text Box: Pick any gathering of conservation professionals, and it soon becomes obvious that technology is a ubiquitous part of their lives. Blackberries and other hand‐held devices are everywhere, and spare moments find professionals sending and receiving emails and text messages and fielding phone calls. But they are as likely to be involved in more traditional ways of communicating, from conducting or participating in field tours to penning columns in their community newspapers. In exploring trends that produce challenges and opportunities Text Box: in the areas of technology and communication we learn the following. In the field, professionals increasingly rely on tools such as the electronic Field Office Technical Guide, mobile computing, GIS capability, the on‐line Customer Service Toolkit and other technological advances to do their jobs. Some old‐school practitioners downplay the importance of technology, but studies show that clients are increasingly more comfortable with and rely more upon technology, too. Text Box: Tools In The Field Text Box: Education Seminar Held Text Box: Representatives of 35 Soil and Water Conservation Districts from across Missouri convened in Jefferson City March 29 and 30 to discuss budget issues, and then meet with their Legislators to relay the budgetary concerns of the districts as well as other conservation related issues. The concerns included the Text Box: budget for FY-2011 and possible reductions to it as well as the FY-10 budget rescission the SWCD’s are currently working under. Donuts, coffee and juice was provided for the Legislators and their staff as they visited with the SWCD representatives about these budgetary concerns.

Missouri Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts

April 2010

Volume 3, Issue 4

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Due to concerns about how to provide for covering the liability that could be created if the sales tax should not be renewed or a district should become disestablished, the legislation being worked on for making SWCD’s eligible to participate in LAGERS will not be introduced this year.

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  Upcoming Events

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April 13, 2010

Missouri Envirothon

Runge Nature Center

Jefferson City, Missouri

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May 12 2010

Soil & Water Commission

Jefferson City, Missouri

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July 17/21, 2010

NACD Legislative Conference

Washington Court Hotel

Washington, D.C.

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