Skip Navigation  Farm Bill program helps landowner nurture
healthy forest, help wildlife  By Ciji Taylor  NRCS Supervisory
District Conservationist Kelvin Jackson worked with Variano
â€œChinoâ€� Suarez on improving forested lands with conservation
programs  NRCS Supervisory District Conservationist Kelvin
Jackson worked with Variano “Chino” Suarez on improving forested
lands with conservation programs.  With a little help from
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, Variano “Chino”
Suarez was able to use prescribed burning and other conservation
efforts to greatly improve his forested land in Mississippi.
Through NRCS conservation programs, Suarez and others are able
to make improvements on private lands.  The recently passed 2014
Farm Bill continues to provide financial and technical
assistance for farmers, ranchers and forest managers wanting to
put conservation to work on their land through the NRCS’
Environmental Quality Incentives Program.  Under the new bill,
EQIP absorbed the former Wildlife Ha