Mission and Purpose “This mission of the New Jersey conservation
partnership is to provide leadership in the planning and
implementation of natural resource management programs for the
agricultural and development of communities and the general
public through a locally based delivery system in coordination
with local, state and federal partners” The Ocean County Soil
Conservation District (OCSCD), which originated in 1952, is one
of fifteen Soil Conservation Districts in NJ that all work
together to implement the New Jersey Soil Erosion and Sediment
Control Act, which governs various aspects of new development.
The OCSCD is a sub-division of the New Jersey Department of
Agriculture, however is locally governed, and operates within
the boundaries of Ocean County. Due to the crisis of the Dust
Bowl in the 1930’s, Congress passed Public Law 46, declaring
soil and water conservation a national policy, and in 1937
President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended that states allow
landowners to form soil and water conse