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In 1984, after completing college, Vincent moved his family back to Montana and joined Vincent Logging as business manager. The small family owned business was started by Bruce's father in 1968.
In 1988, Vincent helped form Communities For a Great Northwest, a non-profit education and information group dedicated to the intelligent use of our natural resources. The group has members throughout the Northwest. The Great Northwest Log Haul, which helped focus national attention on resource supply problems in the Northwest, was the first of many of the group's activities.
Vincent is currently serving as president of Communities For a Great Northwest; is a partner in the public relations firm ENVIRONOMICS, serves as executive director of the Preserve America Presidential Award winning the Provider Pals™ cultural exchange program, serves on the board of the Evergreen Foundation, the board of the Pacific Logging Congress, and serves on the Kootenai Forest Resource Advisory Committee, the Cabinet/Yaak Grizzly Bear Community Involvement Team, and the State of Montana's Thompson Chain of Lakes Citizen Management Council.
Vincent often provides testimony on resource issues before Congress. He has been reported on by Outside, Wheat Life, Range, Tree Farmer, Time and Audubon magazines; The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and other periodicals. He has appeared on 60 Minutes and participated in radio shows, documentary videos and news broadcasts throughout the nation and in several countries including Canada, Iceland, Scotland and Australia. Vincent has appeared on the cover of Evergreen Magazine and was a highlighted "hero" in William Perry Pendley's book It Takes A Hero.
During Vincent's career he has been awarded the national Timber Industry Activist of the year, the Montana Timberman of the Year, the Sylvan Award for service to the national timber industry, the Public Service Award from the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, is this year's Women in Agriculture's "Keeper of the Tenth" award winner, received the Agri-Women's 2007 Veritas Award Winner, and has been inducted into the Libby High School Hall of Fame.
Bruce's family settled in Montana in 1904. His current activities represent a family commitment to responsible environmentalism.
NRCS Chief Dave White headlines Tuesday's session
Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Dave White was named head of the USDA branch on March 24, 2009. He is the 
speaker for the Tuesday morning, January 10, 2012, general session at 11 a.m.
NRCS provides leadership in a partnership effort to help America's private land owners and managers conserve their soil, water and other natural resources.
He began his 33-year career with the NRCS as a conservation aid in Missouri. Subsequently, he has served the agency in South Carolina, Montana and its Washington, D.C. headquarters. As Chief, he leads 12,000 employees and manages a budget in excess of $4 billion.
From 2002 to 2008, White was assigned as the NRCS State Conservationist in Montana. For much of 2007 and 2008, he was also detailed to Senator Tom Harkin's Capitol Hill office, where he helped the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry craft the Conservation Title of the 2008 Farm Bill.
His earlier jobs in the Washington, D.C. area include two details to the staff of Senator Richard Lugar in support of agriculture committee work on energy and alternative fuels and the 2002 Farm Bill. He also completed a tour on the White House Task Force for Livable Communities.
White is an honors graduate of the University of Missouri, where he studied agriculture.
Join the Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (IASWCD) for the Annual Conference of Indiana SWCDs, January 9-11, 2012, The Power of Conservation: Local Actions with Global
Impact.
>> Click here to read the preliminary conference brochure that outlines 17 exciting hands-on training sessions.
The opening speaker on Monday, January 9, 2012, will be Bruce Vincent, 