IASWCD Natural Resources Committee

Co-Chairs:

• Board member Kenny Cain, South-Northwest Region Director
  
  
• Les Zimmerman, Vermillion County SWCD, co-chair.

Responsibilities: The focus of the Natural Resource Policy Committee is to represent the interests of Districts in the formation of state and national natural resource policy. The purpose of this committee is to assemble individuals having expertise in a broad range of conservation and natural resource issues; to identify and prioritize natural resource issues on an ongoing basis and gain consensus on appropriate policy options; to forward recommendations to the IASWCD board along with suggested actions; to develop resolutions to be considered by Districts and voted on by the delegate body; to encourage follow-up and follow-through on actionable items through members participation on various other committees and task forces as appropriate; to determine relevance of existing policy items to natural resource issues, to identify outdated policy and to develop a policy format that will be coherent and accessible.

>> Click here for the October 2008 report from the NACD Forest Resource Policy Group

>> Click here for the committee's Feb 2008 report

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