Yearly Archives: 2023

Keeping involved in retirement is a great way to stay connected. The descriptions below contain basic information for three NRCS program areas. If you are interested in learning more, webpage links are available for you to investigate further. ACES Program The Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program (ACES), authorized by the Farm Bill, and implemented inContinue reading “Opportunities for NRCS Retirees”

From Bill Ward, ARCSE West Region Vice President, and additions by Craig Derickson. NRCS and ARCSE working together to identify and recruit NRCS and partner retirees to provide mentoring assistance to NRCS staff. Recently NRCS and ARCSE signed a MOU with the objective to work together to identify, recruit, and use NRCS and partner retireesContinue reading “ARCSE Mentoring Update”

This Wisconsin NRCS newsletter is dedicated to Ty Larson, an outstanding leader in conservation, a friend and mentor to many, who above all else, was a proud and dedicated husband and father.

The purpose of the Association of Retired Conservation Services Employees (ARCSE)is to help its members keep in touch with each other and with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its activities and to view conservation problems and programs from a Non-Governmental point of view so that the members may be better able to assist theContinue reading “Why membership matters”

Our organization sends the ARCSE members bi-monthly newsletters. This is another great way to stay connected with retirees from throughout the country. If you are interested in seeing some newsletters from the last few years, check out the following link. https://arcse.org/newsletters/ The due date for the November-December Newsletter is Oct 25, 2023. Thank you forContinue reading “ARCSE Newsletters”

Since ARCSE was founded in 1974, we have enjoyed the collective heritage and participation of thousands of resource conservation professionals and support staff — reaching all the way back to the 1930’s founding of the Soil Conservation Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, and forward to the cutting edge of today’s programs. ARCSE members areContinue reading “ARCSE History”

Most of us never really think about our work friends and what will happen after retiring. Often, it’s a surprise to find yourself out of the loop and missing that daily contact.  And now, you are retired. Here are a few things that you might consider doing:

There are many ways in which you can stay connected through the Association of Retired Conservation Service Employees (ARCSE) organization. A few that come to mind include attending luncheons with other NRCS retirees, serving as a State representative for ARCSE, and by connecting to social media, such as Facebook. We also have a bi-monthly newsletter.Continue reading “Stay connected through ARCSE”

During the 2023 Annual Meeting, the ARCSE Plan of Work and Strategic Plan were approved. ARCSE Plan of Work and the ARCSE Strategic Plan Pictures from the 2023 ARCSE Annual Meeting in Des Moines Recent Folk music from Bill Ward, our Regional VP for the West Region. The biggest news, the Signed MOU between NRCSContinue reading “2023 Meeting Updates”

Iowa’s Agriculture Conservation History Presentation, Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting https://arcse.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8-7-23-iowas-agriculture-conservation-history_.pptx