AUGUSTA — Maine’s sixteen Soil & Water Conservation Districts are seeking public input on local priorities for federal conservation funding. Districts are convening meetings of Local Working Groups, which provide input to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service on local natural resource priorities and criteria for conservation activities and programs.

The following Local Working Group meetings have been scheduled for various counties:

Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties
December 2, 2017 
11 a.m. – 1p.m.
Topsham Public Library,
25 Foreside Rd., Topsham, ME.
FMI, contact: Jocelyn Lahey,​ 241-5374

Southern Aroostook County
December 12, 2017
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
USDA Service Center,
304 North St., Houlton, ME
FMI, contact: Angela Wotton, 532-9407

Cumberland and York Counties
December 12, 2017, 9 a.m. – noon
USDA Service Center
306 US Route One, Scarborough, ME
FMI, contact: Wayne Monroe 883-0159

Franklin County
December 11, 2017
Chesterville Town Office
409 Dutch Gap Rd., Chesterville, ME
FMI, contact: Amanda Burton 778-4767 or Rosetta White 778-4297

Kennebec and Lincoln Counties
December 6, 2017 
Whitefield, ME
FMI, contact: Dale Finseth, 622-7847 or Hildy Ellis 596-2040

Oxford County 
December 15, 2017
10 a.m. – Noon 
USDA Service Center
17 Olson Rd., South Paris, ME
FMI, contact:  Jean Frederico, 744-3119

Somerset County
December 21, 2017
1:30 p.m.
USDA Service Center
70 East Madison Road, Skowhegan, ME
FMI, contact: Joe Dembeck, ​474-8324 x3

Additional meetings may be scheduled and will be posted on the Maine NRCS website.

—Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

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