Hoosier Chapter
Soil & Water Conservation Society
Indiana
Working Farmland Protection
Help Establish an Indiana Farmland
Protection Program
Join with the Hoosier Chapter SWCS in its efforts to encourage state
government and legislators to support establishment of an "Indiana
Working Farmland Protection Program. Use items below as appropriate
to support farmland protection efforts.
Additional Sources of Farmland Protection
Information:
Federal Farmland
Protection Program, including fact sheets, is available on the web at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/frpp
.
General information about farmland
protection is available from the American Farmland Trusts website at: http://www.farmland.org/.
Additional information about the
farmland protection and the Federal Farm & Ranch Land Program are available
from Ron Lauster, Legislative Committee Chair, Hoosier Chapter Soil & Water
Conservation Society, Email flsc@indy.rr.com
, phone- 317-569-0063
Indiana and Federal Farmland Program information about the USDA-NRCS Farm
& Ranch Land Protection Program is available on the Indiana USDA NRCS
web site.
A
paper from the Brookings Institute on Rebuilding America. puts the need
for rural planning in an entirely different focus. Check out
the Executive
Summary or the Complete
Paper (note these are pdf format files and take a while to download).
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