The Tennessee Soil Conservation Districts and the Natural Resources Conservation Service have worked as cooperative partners in support of agricultural conservation for over 60 years. However, it has always been the locally led efforts of community leaders and stakeholders that help identify concerns, implement solutions, and evaluate results that have solved the many local natural resource needs throughout Tennessee.Locally led conservation begins with the community itself working through the local Soil Conservation District. It is based on the principle that community stakeholders are best suited to deal with local resource problems.