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Roger Hansen
Missouri State Conservationist
Roger Hansen has served as the State Conservationist for the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Missouri since August 6, 1995.
As State Conservationist, he is responsible for the management and direction
of all NRCS operations in the state.
A native of DeWitt, Iowa, Roger grew up on a working farm. He attended
the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resource Management
in 1969.
He began his career with the NRCS as a student trainee in 1968 and served
as a Soil Conservationist in Maquoketa and Waukon, Iowa.
Later he served as the District Conservationist in Albia, Iowa and then
Centerville, Iowa until 1974.
Roger relocated to the Colorado State Office (Denver) in 1975, serving
as an environmental coordinator until 1977 when he was then promoted to
the Area Conservationist position at LaJunta, Colorado. In 1978 he was
selected for the NRCS Graduate Study Program and detailed to Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned a Master of
Public Administration Degree in 1979. He then served as State Resource
Conservationist in Durham, New Hampshire until 1981 when he became the
Deputy State Conservationist in Orono, Maine.
Roger also served as the Deputy State Conservationist for Ohio
from 1984 till August 1995.
Roger is a member of the National Association of Conservation Districts
(NACD) and the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS). Roger and his
wife, Connie, have a grown son and daughter.
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