Due to the budget impasse the future of Illinois' Soil and Water Conservation Districts and their equally important partners in the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Land and Water Resources is in jeopardy. Soil and water conservation efforts have already been cut to the bone over the last decade and cannot sustain further cuts. The stakes are high. If the budget situation is not resolved, Illinois will lose the infrastructure necessary to deliver critical natural resource conservation on private lands.
Illinois has some of the richest and most productive soils in the world along with abundant fresh water, yet instead of investing in the long term foundation of our state's number one industry, we continue to sacrifice the future for the present. The state that destroys its soils, destroys itself.
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