Pasture and hay, Malheur County, Photo taken by Terry Finnerty.
Malheur County is the second largest county in the state and has
an area of 9,874 square miles or 6.3 million acres. Seventy-two
percent of the county is in public ownership. Privately owned
land includes 1, 074,900 acres of rangelands and 396,000 acres
of irrigated crop and hay. The NRCS office is located in
Ontario. The NRCS staff provides technical assistance and
administers NRCS financial assistance conservation programs.
NRCS is currently conducting an inventory for the North Malheur
Soil Survey and is working cooperatively with the BLM on the
South Malheur Soil Survey and Vegetation Assessment. NRCS Local
Conservation Activities and Strategies The NRCS in Malheur
County works voluntarily with private land owners and
cooperatively with partners to strategically address priority
natural resource concerns. These practices and resource concerns
include: - Irrigation water management and system improvements
to address inefficient use of irrigati