Celebrating 75 years of Conservation
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil … There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” – Charles E. Kellogg
VISION/PURPOSE
We envision our community working together to protect and ensure clean and abundant water, healthy and productive soil, and a strong and vibrant agricultural community.
MISSION
Our mission is to be a community resource and support voluntary land and water conservation through the sharing and implementation of farming, ranching and conservation practices, producer and community education, strategic collaborations, and supporting agriculture-related public policies.
VALUES
Phillips Conservation District believes that our success relies on operating with integrity. The following identify essential core values.
- Respect
- We respect each other’s opinions, knowledge, and time and treat everyone the way we would like to be treated.
- Teamwork
- We believe collaboration and working together is essential to our ability to positively impact the future of soil and water health.
- Willingness to Change
- We appreciate the past as we look forward to the future by listening with an open-mind and putting aside pre-conceived notions and opinions.
- Engagement
- We believe our strength comes from individual and community involvement, participation, and follow through on our commitments.
- Transparent Communications
- We encourage open, honest, and straightforward sharing of knowledge, information, experience, and viewpoints in order to create a broader pool of knowledge for decision-making.
- We encourage open, honest, and straightforward sharing of knowledge, information, experience, and viewpoints in order to create a broader pool of knowledge for decision-making.
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