{"id":597,"date":"2016-03-13T00:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:14:09","slug":"nrcs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/federal-agencies\/nrcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources Conservation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE AND COUNCIL MEMBER<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jonathan H. Smith Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>Senior Scientist<br \/>Soil Science and Resource Assessment<br \/>Natural Resources Conservation Service<br \/>(301) 215-0347<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Jonathan.smith@usda.gov\">Jonathan.smith@usda.gov<\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan H. Smith Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>Senior Scientist<br \/>Soil Science and Resource Assessment<br \/>Natural Resources Conservation Service<br \/>(301) 215-0347<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Jonathan.smith@usda.gov\">Jonathan.smith@usda.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tessa Garcia<\/strong><br \/>Grants Management Specialist<br \/>USDA Farm Production and Conservation-Business Center<br \/><a class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"mailto:tessa.garcia@usda.gov\" data-linkindex=\"0\" href=\"mailto:tessa.garcia@usda.gov\" id=\"OWA3423604d-2df2-3a74-a814-46f8d7a531c4\">tessa.garcia@usda.gov<\/a><br \/>651-602-7872<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Needs<br \/>\nNRCS\u2019 interests are focused on natural resources that form the foundation for healthy lands. NRCS seeks technical assistance, research, and education in the following areas.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Soil Quality: The quality of intensively used soils is maintained or enhanced to enable sustained production of a safe, healthy, and abundant food supply.<\/li>\n<li>Water Quality: The quality of surface and groundwater is improved and maintained to protect human health, support a healthy environment and encourage a productive landscape.<\/li>\n<li>Water Management: Water is conserved and protected to ensure and abundant and a reliable supply for the nation.<\/li>\n<li>Grassland, Rangeland and Forest Ecosystems: Grassland, Rangeland, and Forestlands are productive, diverse and resilient.<\/li>\n<li>Fish and Wildlife Habitat: Working lands and waters provide habitat for diverse and healthy wildlife, aquatic species, and plant communities.<\/li>\n<li>Wetlands: Provide quality habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife, protect water quality, and reduce flood damages.<\/li>\n<li>Clean Air: Agriculture makes a positive contribution to local air quality and the nation\u2019s effort to sequester carbon.<\/li>\n<li>Energy: Agriculture activities conserve energy and agricultural lands are a source of environmentally sustainable bio fuels and renewable energy.<\/li>\n<li>Working Farm and Ranch Lands: Connected landscapes sustain a viable agricultural and natural resource quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcs.usda.gov\/\">Natural Resources Conservation Service website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE AND COUNCIL MEMBER Jonathan H. Smith Ph.D.Senior ScientistSoil Science and Resource AssessmentNatural Resources Conservation Service(301) 215-0347Jonathan.smith@usda.gov ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE\u00a0 Jonathan H. Smith Ph.D.Senior ScientistSoil Science and Resource AssessmentNatural Resources Conservation Service(301) 215-0347Jonathan.smith@usda.gov Tessa GarciaGrants Management SpecialistUSDA Farm Production and Conservation-Business Centertessa.garcia@usda.gov651-602-7872 Key Research, Technical Assistance, and Education Needs NRCS\u2019 interests are focused on natural&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/partnership\/federal-agencies\/nrcs\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2002,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 15:53:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/18833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pnwcesu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}