Alabama Group Takes Top National RC&D Award

Randall Weiseman July 2, 2014 Ag "Outdoors", Alabama, General, USDA-NRCS, Water

Charlie Meek

Five Northwest Alabama counties have been involved in an effort which was named the 2013 National Association of Resource Conservation and Development Project of the Year. Charlie Meek spoke at a recent event about how all of this came about.

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