No worries. I recognize that it's a journey with a destination that may always be just ahead of us as we travel. In a WACD Board meeting today so I'm jumping back to the meeting. *Thank you* for

Hi Tom, Just wanted to follow up on my last email outlining some of the steps we’re taking to implement DEI in to our work. While letting folks know what we’re doing, I neglected to mention

East Multnomah SWCD invested fairly early in guided, professional training for our staff which took some of the weight off of deciding how to go about implementing a process. Staff started internally

We have had limited conversations during our staff meetings for two reasons. First they are remote and I think we're all still trying to get comfortable with discussing some topics (particularly

I would love to hear what kinds of conversations are occurring in conservation districts around the country on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now that NACD has issued a position

This comes to us via Melissa Higbee, NCDEA Vice President. --- Good afternoon, If there are employees who missed the Partner IDP webinar on Wednesday, October 30th, they will be able to navigate

Our conservation district in Washington State has seen quite a few more pop up recently. The ones that are the scariest are the ones that say they are from a known person. We even had one last week

My conservation district had a bad experience with phishing recently. That caused me to bring up this topic when I visited with the Idaho District Employees Association board last week. I was

Thank you Craig; I really appreciate the feedback!! Be well, Tim…

Tim, NRCS made a big to do about having Cooperative Working Agreements with CDs here in Washington about 5 or 6 years ago. Here's the closest to final I have in an electronic version. We are in the

Let me see what we have here. Although we are still all in the same building as an ag service center, I am the only staffer who shares office space. I am required to have a LincPass, and we have done

Thank you. So far we are committing to our District Planners (partially funded through NRCS Cooperative Agreements) to be at their office 2 days a week; as well as some sort of "get together" monthly

On Jun 3, 2019, at 10:12 AM, Pacific NCDEA <pacificrep@...> wrote: Tim, I'll reach out to Washington State with your question. Most of their districts are no longer co-located with USDA. I haven't

Tim, I'll reach out to Washington State with your question. Most of their districts are no longer co-located with USDA. I haven't heard of such an agreement but I surely do like the idea! Tom --

Excellent! We'll be well represented :-) -- Tom Salzer, Pacific Region Director, NCDEA pacificrep@...

For anyone that is in a District office that is not co-located with USDA; do you have a written agreement with your local and/or state USDA-NRCS to coordinate your operations and/or solidify a

I'm not sure of the exact days I will be there yet, but I do plan to attend. Tim Riley NCDEA Past President

I will be attending. -- Gretchen Rank Southwest Director for NCDEA ncdea.us

I will not be able to attend. Thanks for the note/reminder. Thank you. Monte Marti District Manager Snohomish Conservation District monte@... 425-377-7001 425-359-3085

Save the Date: The 2019 NACD Summer Conservation Forum and Tour will be held in Santa Fe, N.M., Aug. 2 – 6, 2019 at the Drury Plaza Hotel in conjunction with the Southwest and Pacific Regions