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Federal government funds conservation in South Dakota while cutting the people who do the work

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Federal government funds conservation in South Dakota while cutting the people who do the work
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building in Washington, D.C., pictured on Dec. 18, 2017. (USDA photo by Preston Keres)The federal government has found a strange way to practice conservation: put billions of dollars on the table, then cut many of the people needed to turn that money into work on the ground.
That is the disconnect South Dakota’s congressional delegation should be concerned about, because right now the two policies are moving in opposite directions.
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