Conservation districts report to county commissioners

Jennifer Boie, Palouse Conservation District director, addresses county commissioners March 19.

Representatives from four Whitman County conservation districts presented their annual report March 19 to county commissioners.

Jennifer Boie of the Palouse Conservation District at Pullman opened by showing a slide of Palouse Falls, noting that all of the Palouse watershed waterways go over the falls on the way to the Snake River.

She noted that they are working from funding from the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.

She talked a...