The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) emphasizes voluntary, science-based assistance to help private forest landowners and managers improve their forest resource.
NRCS conservationists work with private forest landowners and managers to plan and install forestry practices that can improve growth, reduce risk, and improve forest health while addressing other landowner goals, such as wildlife habitat or livestock grazing considerations.
In the first of these five Forestry Conservation; Landowner Perspective videos, meet Philip and Lynn Jones. WATCH VIDEO
To hear the rest of their story, watch the next four Forestry Conservation videos:
- Forestry Conservation: Moving Forward After a Wildfire
- Forestry Conservation: Thinning
- Forestry Conservation: Challenges and Rewards
- Forestry Conservation: Working with NRCS
