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<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">TEXAS</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"> STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
BOARD</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a
href="https://www.tsswcb.texas.gov/en/media/20141007">Registration
packets are now available for National Watershed Coalition's
14th National Watershed Conference and National Watershed
Program Partner Summit</a></span></b><br>
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<p>TEMPLE - Registration packets are now available for download
for the National Watershed Coalition's 14<sup>th</sup> National
Watershed Conference and National Watershed Program Partner
Summit, which will be held at the Worthington Renaissance Fort
Worth Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas on May 17-20, 2015.</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.tsswcb.texas.gov/files/docs/Flood%20Control/14th%20conference%20registration%20packet.pdf"
target="_blank">Registration Packet</a></p>
<p>The event is being presented in partnership with the Texas
Association of Watershed Sponsors, the Texas State Soil and
Water Conservation Board, the Association of Texas Soil and
Water Conservation Districts, the Tarrant Regional Water
District, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The conference will address both current and future water
resource issues related to conservation, management, water
quality, and flood protection on a watershed scale.</p>
<p>The 2015 program will highlight opportunities for combining
resources from the portfolio of complimentary programs such as
the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Environmental
Quality Incentives Program, Chesapeake Bay Initiative,
Mississippi River Basin Initiative, or Regional Conservation
Partnership Program; or the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s Clean Water Act §319(h) nonpoint source grant efforts
to meet watershed management goals. The goal of the conference
program committee is to provide a blend of presentations that
address efforts to create safe, productive, as well as healthy
watersheds using a wide variety of resources.</p>
<p>The National Watershed Coalition’s program committee is
currently soliciting for abstracts of presentations that address
USDA Watershed Program specific concerns. The committee will
give special consideration to abstracts that address several
emphasis areas:</p>
<ul>
<li>Expanding Watershed Services and the Regional Conservation
Partnership Program</li>
<li>Achieving water quality and quantity management strategies
for the future through expanded partnerships</li>
<li>Utilizing Watershed Program benefits to mitigate the impacts
of changing climate</li>
<li>Taking program opportunity and operation and maintenance
(O&M) performance to the next level</li>
<li>Design and finance alternatives for aging USDA Watershed
Program infrastructure</li>
</ul>
<p>All accepted papers will be eligible for publication in the
conference proceedings. Abstracts should be a 400-word or less
description of the presentation. Electronic copies must be
submitted in Microsoft Word format. Include presenter's name,
complete mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and
e-mail address with the abstract and e-mail to: Dan A. Sebert,
Ph.D. at <a class="spamspan"
href="mailto:nwchdqtrs@sbcglobal.net">nwchdqtrs@sbcglobal.net</a>.
Abstract deadline is January 16, 2015.</p>
<p>Abstracts will not be returned. Notification of accepted
abstracts will start in February 2015. If an abstract is
accepted, the full paper is due April 13, 2015. Maximum length
of the final manuscripts is 6,000 words, about 9 pages.
Questions concerning presentation categories and potential
topics of interest may be directed to <a class="spamspan"
href="mailto:nwchdqtrs@sbcglobal.net">nwchdqtrs@sbcglobal.net</a>.
Presenters are responsible for providing their own conference
travel, registration, and other related expenses.</p>
<p>Additional abstract, sponsorship, exhibitor, and registration
information is available at the following links:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watershedcoalition.org/">http://www.watershedcoalition.org/</a></p>
<p><a
href="https://www.tsswcb.texas.gov/files/docs/NWC%20Conference%20Announcement.pdf">Conference
Announcement</a></p>
<p><a
href="https://www.tsswcb.texas.gov/files/docs/Call%20for%20Papers.pdf">Call
for Papers</a></p>
<p><a
href="https://www.tsswcb.texas.gov/files/docs/Flood%20Control/14th%20conference%20registration%20packet.pdf"
target="_blank">Registration Packet</a></p>
<p>The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board administers
Texas’ soil and water conservation law and delivers coordinated
natural resource conservation programs through the State’s 216
soil and water conservation districts. The Texas State Soil and
Water Conservation Board is the lead agency for planning,
implementing, and managing programs for preventing and abating
agricultural and silvicultural nonpoint sources of water
pollution. The agency also administers a water supply
enhancement program to increase available surface and ground
water through the targeted control of water-depleting brush;
works to ensure the State’s network of 2,000 flood control dams
are protecting lives and property; and facilitates the Texas
Invasive Species Coordinating Committee.</p>
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