Vanderburgh County Soil &
Water Conservation District
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OFFICE STAFF
Soil & Water
Conservation District (SWCD)
Mark Abell, Water Quality Specialist
More info coming shortly
Bonnie
Bittner, Executive Assistant/Fiscal Officer
She assists the SWCD
board by keeping them informed on government regulations, laws,
programs, and activities and to maintain relationships with the
media to promote the District’s missions and programs. Bonnie
assists with the District monthly meetings, budgets, and the
business plan. She produces the newsletter, the website, and
brochures. Bonnie is responsible for the Annual Meeting and Annual
Report. As the District Fiscal Officer & Bookkeeper she sees that
all funds are received and disbursed according to the State Board of
Accounts. She serves as support to the Erosion Control and Water
Quality Specialist on Rule 5 paper work and Watershed Grant work.
As Executive Assistant, Bonnie also served as chairperson for a
Tri-County Leadership 2000 Program for Adults and Youth, Director
for Indiana District Employee Association for South West Indiana,
and represented Vanderburgh County at several IASWCD meetings in
Indianapolis. Bonnie has been with Vanderburgh County SWCD since
1991. Bonnie is presently a Vanderburgh County farm owner and
the President of the Family Apiaries Business. She has a business
degree from Lockyear Business College, and previous work experience
in business administration, the medical & financial investment
industry.
Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
Mark Cambron, District Conservationist
Mark Cambron is the new District Conservationist for Vanderburgh County following the retirement of Darrell Rice. Mark was raised on a Beef Cattle/Tobacco farm in central Kentucky (Lebanon). After service time with the U.S. Air Force, he completed degrees at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Tennessee. Following college, he was employed with the Cooperative Extension Service in Tennessee and Kentucky. Mark began his career with the Natural Resource Conservation Service as the District Conservationist for Washington County (Springfield), Kentucky, and recently moved to Indiana as the RC&D Coordinator for the Four Rivers RC&D. His wife is Angela and they have four children and one the way. Mark looks forward to assisting the landowners and producers of Vanderburgh County with their conservation objectives.
Indiana State Department of Ag (ISDA)
Linda
Powel, Resource Specialist
Linda Powell
graduated from USI in 2005 with a BS in Biology with an emphasis in
plant science. Before taking the resource specialist position here
in Vanderburgh county, she spent two and a half years in Gibson
county as a watershed coordinator for the district working on 319
grants for BMP installation.