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Earth Team Volunteers

They are Making a Difference in California!

What is the Earth Team?

In 1981, Congress authorized the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly the Soil Conservation Service, to accept volunteers to increase soil and water conservation efforts, and to do this by working closely with Soil and Water Conservation Districts.

In California, the Earth Team is a growing volunteer workforce making a difference. The concept of Earth Team includes not only volunteers, but also NRCS staff and Resource Conservation Districts. The mission of the Earth Team is to provide an effective volunteer workforce within NRCS to help people conserve, improve and sustain our resources and environment.

Volunteers can help expand efforts in soil and water conservation. Anyone 14 years or older and interested in saving our precious soil and water can join the Earth Team. Volunteers may work part-time, full-time, outdoors or in an NRCS office.

What Can You Do?

Earth Team Volunteers help on the Land, in the Community and in the Office.

On the Land

In the Community

In the Office
  • Soil Mapping
  • Surveying
  • Water Sampling
  • Establishing Wildlife Habitat
  • Native Grass Seeding
  • Resource Inventories
  • Conservation
    Practice Layout
  • Planting Trees
  • Conservation Planning
  • Photography
  • Conservation Education
  • Writing
  • Special Tours & Fairs
  • Conservation
    Youth Groups
  • Outdoor Classrooms & Nature Areas
  • Public Speaking
  • Drafting
  • Computer Data Entry
  • Map Interpretations
  • Typing
  • Telephoning
  • Editing
  • Reception
  • Filing

For more Earth Team program information, contact your nearest coordinator.

Title

Name

Address/Phone Number

E-mail Address
State Coordinator Jen DeLorenzi 430 G Street, #4164
Davis, California 95616
Telephone: (530) 792-5647
Fax: (530) 792-5791		 Jen.Delorenzi@ca.usda.gov
Assistant Coordinator Marina Barajas 430 G Street, #4164
Davis, California 95616
Telephone: (530) 792-5620
Fax: (530) 792-5791		 Marina.Barajas@ca.usda.gov
Assistant Coordinator
 		 Julie Irinco 318 Cayuga Street, Suite 206
Salinas, California 93901
Telephone: (831) 754-1595
Fax: (831) 753-0508		 Julie.Irinco@ca.usda.gov

For more information on the Earth Team Volunteer Program, visit the National NRCS Earth Team Volunteers Web site.

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