Focused, motivated, highly technically skilled proficient resource conversation planner. Competent at delivering high levels of planning, and implementation for the following Farm Bill programs: Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP), Conservation Security Program (CSP), Conservation Stewardship Program (CStP). Accomplished sound resource planner for FSA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Grazing Reserve program (GRP), and ECP/WP programs. Successfully work collaboratively with clients, employees, supervisors and other agency personnel: BIA, Forest Service, USF&W, State F&W, DNR and tribal nations to accomplish predetermined goals and objectives with a positive outcome. Ensure good working relationships with private landowners and governmental agencies through professional written and oral communications skills, with the ability to provide clear explanations of issues, problems, and solutions to apply sound conservation measures and prioritize resource needs, goals, and treatments. Experienced with developing study experiments, research studies, designing appropriate tests and methods with proven experimental data. Proficient at collecting and recording data from sampled and evaluated research studies, maintains and monitors research planting to determine the best possible long - and short-term possible outcome that work for internal (NRCS) and external (producers) trial results. Qualified NRCS budget planning, workload tracking spreadsheets, and managing complex projects. Skillfully expert PowerPoint presentation speaker to the public in workshops, classroom and field setting. Performing proficiently at an RMS Planning level: skillfully knowledgeable and experienced in large majority of conservation planning with nontribal and tribal producers. Experienced, competent, conservation planner in rangeland, livestock operations, and livestock grazing management: pasture and hay land systems, grazed crop stubble systems, grain cropping rotation. Proficient planner with grazed forestry management, forest health systems, sage grouse planning, mitigation and inventory. Competent and experienced in conservation planning with Forest Health issues planning i.e.: Precommercial thinning, slash disposal, fuel load prescriptions, wildlife habitat and grazing residue and conservation crop rotation management plans for producer to use effectively in their own farm operation. In addition, compiled and planned grazing plans for three counties, and assisted other counties (Spokane, Lincoln, Grant, Kittitas, Adams, Whitman and Franklin counties) of the East Area team with grazing inventory, crop rotation and forestry workload. through the landscape of the Colville National forest, as also assisted in the Timber- A through Z project, The Colville River Basin project, the Colville Valley agricultural tours. Have regularly represented the agency at Conservation Board meetings, LWG and CRM meetings, SRM and Woman in Agricultural Conferences. P a g e | 2
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