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Science and Technology: Delivering
Science and Technology: Delivering
MISSION:
GOALS:
Identify and meet field staff
needs for scientific and technical information
Deliver training and information to the field in a
timely and efficient manner
Respond to requests for information, research,
and technology development from the field
Provide scientific and technical support to
program implementation
Priority Issues
for the
Science and Technology
Consortium
DROUGHT
Water Supply
Water Conservation
Ground Water Decline
AGING WATERSHEDS
700
PL-566
Pilot/RC&D
PL-534
500
400
300
200
100
99
96
93
90
87
84
81
78
75
72
69
66
63
60
57
54
51
48
Number of Dams
600
Year
FLOODS
Program Requirements
Customer Needs
OTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
OTHER COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES
CENTERS
National Cartographic and Geospatial Center
National Plant Data Center
National Design and Soil Mechanics Center
National Soil Survey Center
National Water and Climate Center
National Water Management Center
National Agroforestry Center
INSTITUTES
Grazing Lands Technology
Natural Resources Inventory and Analysis
Social Sciences
Soil Quality
Watershed Science
Wetland Science
Wildlife Habitat Management
Grazing Lands
Technology Institute
Science-based,
ecologically and
economically sound
technology that
meets the needs of
owners and
managers of
grazing lands.
Provides a focused
effort to meet the
plant information
needs of the agency
and its partners
activities.
Provides technical
leadership and
coordination to soils
programs, with state-ofthe-art soil survey
technology, standards,
data and expertise
Climate Data
Snow Survey and Water
Supply Forecasting
Agronomic and Chemical
environmental engineering
Soil moisture/temperature
Water quality and quantity
sciences
National Water
Management Center
NATIONAL
AGROFORESTRY CENTER
A partnership between the
Forest Service and NRCS
that conducts research on
forested buffers, and
develops and delivers
technology on agroforestry
practices.
PLANT MATERIALS
CENTERS
Develop improved plants and plant technology for
natural resource conservation. Native plants are
promoted as a healthy way to solve
conservation problems.
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