Sheridan County Conservation District Board Of Trustees Meeting To Discuss Long-Range Plan

The Sheridan County Conservation District is about to put together a new set of goals and accomplishments.

The District Board of Trustees will meet on Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 to discuss and put together a new 5-year long range plan, which will run from 2025 to 2029.

The work session starts at 2pm and the regular meeting starts at 4pm.

As part of its reporting requirement to the US Department of Agriculture, the board needs to identify priorities and needs, figure out what issues need to be addressed, regardless if it’s new or old and see what others have run their course.

District Manager Carrie Rogaczewski explains what new issues the Board needed to address when the last plan was developed 5 years ago.

“Over the last plan, the one we developed in 2019 for 2020, had a new emphasis on some of the invasive grasses that we were starting to see, and trying to define what our role in that is, and those issues and then the soil health and some of the composting aspects and even part of these working lands collaboratives and some of these other partnerships and how we fit into some of those things.”

Among the various projects that the Sheridan County Conservation District performs include water quality monitoring, and provide funding for water quality projects.

The District has also been overseeing the reclamation efforts of the old Acme Power Plant.