Earth Team
Together We're Making History
Celebrating 20 Years 1985-2005
The Earth Team celebrated its 20th Anniversary
during National Volunteer Week April 17-23, 2005.
Recognizing that many Americans, wanted to do their part to protect the
environment, Congress passed a law allowing USDA agencies to use volunteers to
them accomplish their missions.
Since 1990, nearly 8,000 Virginia Earth Team volunteers
have contributed more than 300,000 hours to keeping our water and air clean, our
land productive and improving habitat for wildlife.
In Virginia, Earth Team volunteers are invaluable. They
provide support to the NRCS workforce whenever and wherever needed--assisting
with design and layout of best management practices, helping with data entry and
programming, providing public information and teaching conservation education
just to name a few.
It is appropriate that during National Volunteer Week, we
salute the work of these energetic, talented and giving individuals.
Learn
more about our National network of Earth Team Volunteers
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