Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack formally recognized NRCS’s Sage Grouse Initiative Team "For exemplary leadership in developing and implementing NRCS's new and exciting Sage-Grouse Initiative, a spatially targeted, landscape scale approach to achieving world-class wildlife conservation through sustainable ranching".
David was honored along with his co-leader and National Sage Grouse Initiative Coordinator Tim Griffiths, and 33 other team members from USDA and cooperating state and federal agencies.