Making community improvement, maintaining a safe, quality water supply, and increasing recreational opportunities are all challenging actions. Often these actions are more challenging in rural Oklahoma. One opportunity to support these actions is through the USDA--Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Program. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program and RC&Ds work through a council of local citizens to find resources to benefit these rural communities. Oklahoma has 9 authorized RC&D areas serving 75 of the state’s 77 counties.

RC&D councils set their own goals and objectives, but most aim to accomplish the following:

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  Develop land and water resources for agricultural, municipal, and industrial use, recreation and wildlife.
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  Improve local and extended marketing of crops, livestock and forest products
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  Improve infrastructure of rural communities
  
• Promote improved rural standards of living through economic and rural development

REMINDER: This listing is a free service of LandCAN.
Ouachita Mountains RC&D Council is not employed by or affiliated with the Land Conservation Assistance Network, and the Network does not certify or guarantee their services. The reader must perform their own due diligence and use their own judgment in the selection of any professional.

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