South Dakota’s Earth Team (ET) volunteers allows U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to stretch resources by partnering volunteers with employees to provide a wide range of services to private landowners and the public.
Earth Team volunteers help NRCS accomplish its mission
Eugene Preston, right, is a retired NRCS Soil Scientist who volunteers through the Earth Team Program. Here he uses his phone to view Thurman soil descriptions while Greg Clark, MLRA Soil Scientist from Stanton, Neb., records data in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.





