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Central Platte NRD Public Hearing to Set Property Tax Request

08/25/2025
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska – The Central Platte Natural Resources District (NRD) Board of Directors will hold a public hearing to set the property tax request and levy on Sept. 4, 2025, during the regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting. (Note: The August board meeting is moved to Sept. 4, to...Read more

Lower Platte South NRD Approves FY2026 Budget, Trail Projects, and Flood Protection Measures

08/22/2025
LINCOLN, Nebraska – The Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (NRD) Board of Directors approved the Fiscal Year 2026 budget and took action on a wide range of conservation, recreation, and water resource projects during its Aug. 20, 2025, meeting. Decisions included funding for trail...Read more

Lower Platte South NRD Partners with NRCS on Little Salt Creek Watershed Plan

08/14/2025
LINCOLN, Nebraska — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in partnership with Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (NRD), received official approval in July for the Little Salt Creek Watershed Improvement Plan in southeastern Nebraska. The...Read more

Central Platte NRD Invites the Public to Tag Monarch Butterflies at the Nebraska State Fair

08/13/2025
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska – The Central Platte Natural Resources District (CPNRD), Central Community College, and the Grand Island Groundwater Guardian Team invite the public to participate in a Monarch Butterfly Tagging Event at the Nebraska State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m...Read more

Lower Platte South NRD Hosting Guided Prairie Walk Aug. 13, 2025

08/11/2025
LINCOLN, Nebraska – The Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (NRD) invites the public to a free guided hike on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, from 6-7:30 p.m., at the Honvlez Prairie along the Prairie Corridor on Haines Branch. While the site is open to the public year-round, this event offers...Read more

Central Platte NRD Board Approves 2026 Budget

08/01/2025
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska – At their July 31, 2025, meeting, the Central Platte Natural Resources District (CPNRD) Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2025/2026 budget following a public hearing. The approved budget totals $31,799,740.74, a decrease from last year’s budget of $34,714,184.14...Read more

Nebraska Is Fighting for the Water We Were Promised—And We Stand With That Fight

07/30/2025
The State of Nebraska—under the firm leadership of Governor Jim Pillen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers—has filed a case in the U.S. Supreme Court to protect what belongs to Nebraskans: our water, our economy, and our future. For a century, Nebraskans have relied on a promise embedded in the 1923...Read more

Protect Water During Drought with the Lower Loup NRD

07/29/2025
This article was originally written by Alan Bartels, Lower Loup NRD Information & Education Coordinator, for the Loup Lines Loup Lines Volume 46, No. 8 (August 2025) ORD, Nebraska -- Drought conditions have improved considerably across the Lower Loup NRD in recent months. According to the U.S...Read more

Lower Elkhorn NRD July 2025 Meeting Recap

07/25/2025
NORFOLK, Nebraska -- At their July 24, 2025, board meeting, Lower Elkhorn NRD directors denied a request from the Northeast Nebraska Management Area (Northeast WMA) to provide a cash match of $18,000 over three years for their Nebraska Environmental Trust (NET) grant application to combat noxious...Read more

Lower Loup NRD Announces 2025 Photo Contest Winners

07/24/2025
ORD, Nebraska -- Winning photographs have been chosen in the Lower Loup NRD’s 2025 Photo Contest. In the competition that ran from December 2024 through May 15, 2025, twenty-four photographers from the Lower Loup NRD and across Nebraska submitted images depicting wildlife, landscapes, weather...Read more

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Nebraska Extension Offers “Public Health and Water Quality” Webinar in January & February

12/20/2021
Have you ever wondered if the water you are drinking is safe? Who studies the impacts of contaminates on my health? These are questions commonly asked throughout the state especially when there are stories continually discussing contaminates in the water we drink. The “Public Health and Water...Read more

Executive Travel Partners with Nebraska’s NRDs to Plant 1M Trees

12/17/2021
LINCOLN, Nebraska – Executive Travel has announced a partnership with Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) to plant 1 million trees over the next five years through the ETGreen campaign, starting with 50,000 trees in 2022. ETGreen was launched in September 2021 and is designed to help...Read more

Five Students Take State in Conservation Poster Contest

11/29/2021
LINCOLN, Nebraska – Leaves, branches and wildlife were artfully crafted by young Nebraskans throughout the year turning blank paper into award-winning posters. Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) recognize students from kindergarten to 12th grade, who competed in the annual “Healthy...Read more

Woody Florals: Bradshaw Business Sees Annual Growth

11/15/2021
BRADSHAW, Nebraska -- Gary Eberle has a different relationship with trees on his property than most Nebraska farmers. Far from seeing them as a nuisance on a fence line or useful only in a windbreak, Eberle and his wife, Nancy, have cultivated a modest agroforestry business using trees purchased in...Read more

Funding Available from USDA to Protect Groundwater

10/26/2021
Press Release from the Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Service Oct. 25, 2021. LINCOLN, Nebraska – The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has funding available to assist landowners in source water protection priority areas to install conservation practices. Interested landowners...Read more

Annual NRD Conference Focuses on Resource Sustainability, New Technology

09/20/2021
Hall of Fame and Conservation Award Winners Recognized for Success LINCOLN, Nebraska – Natural resources stakeholders and experts will be in Kearney for the annual Nebraska Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) Conference at the Younes Conference Center Sept. 26-28. The conference brings together NRD...Read more

NRD Hall of Fame Inductees Announced at Husker Harvest Days

09/16/2021
LINCOLN, Neb. – During Husker Harvest Days Sept. 15, Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) recognized four individuals, who will be inducted into the NRD Hall of Fame later this month. “Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts’ projects involve many dedicated individuals working to make the...Read more

NARD Welcomes Intern

09/07/2021
Presley Wendelin, currently a junior at UNL studying agribusiness, will join NARD as a part-time intern beginning Sept. 8, 2021. Presley grew up in Gothenburg, Nebraska, where she was involved in many extra-circular school activities including serving as the Gothenburg FFA President. Some of her...Read more

Husker Harvest Days includes Free Trees and Water Testing

09/07/2021
LINCOLN, Nebraska – Questions about trees, erosion, flood control or water quality? Stop in to visit with Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts during Husker Harvest Days Sept. 14-16. “This is a great opportunity for producers to meet with conservation agencies all in one place and learn more...Read more

2021 NCF-Envirothon Nebraska Announces Winning Teams

07/29/2021
Students from Esopus, New York, Named Champions LINCOLN, Nebraska – On July 28, students from Esopus, New York, took the top prize of $15,000 at the 2021 National Conservation Foundation (NCF)-Envirothon, an international environmental and natural resources education competition for high schoolers...Read more

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