The Piatt County SWCD and Foundation’s April board meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 21st at 8:00am. The meeting will be held in the Monticello USDA building conference room (1209 Bear Lane, Monticello, IL 61856).
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📣 We are seeking input from Piatt County residents, landowners, and other stakeholders to identify our community’s most pressing natural resource concerns. Please fill out this Conservation Needs Assessment to steer local conservation efforts and identify priority areas!
Online survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1jkJSMIIkQhVioq-VwsYidNc2kgtPja6FMaoIXDAIwY1wig/viewform
📝 Your participation will help us develop actionable strategies to address soil health, water quality, and other local conservation priorities. County information will be utilized by NRCS, the State Technical Committee, and PCSWCD to guide programs and resources effectively.
📥 Please submit/return your completed Conservation Needs Assessments to Piatt County SWCD by 4/30!
PCSWCD is accepting applications until April 1st for two Butch Fisher Memorial Scholarship awards this year!
Submit your application in person at the Monticello UDSA office, or through our new online form! Submission and eligibility details can be found on our website under the PCSWCD Foundation tab.
The Piatt County SWCD and Foundation’s March board meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 5th at 8:00am. The meeting will be held in the Monticello USDA building conference room (1209 Bear Lane, Monticello, IL 61856).
The Piatt County Soil & Water Conservation District Foundation is co-sponsoring a presentation by John Deere historian and storyteller Brian ‘Fox’ Ellis at Allerton Public Library on Thursday, February 26th at 4pm! Join us as Ellis portrays John Deere himself, covering 100 years of agricultural history and the future of farming.
The Land Conservation Foundation has announced details for their eighth annual Mudpuppy Festival!
The 2026 festival will be held on Sunday, February 1st from 1:00 – 4:00pm at the Monarch Events Center (212 S Independence St, Monticello)
Help celebrate the unique and exciting mudpuppy, a rare aquatic salamander known to occur in the Sangamon River – along with other special creatures! If you would like to donate to LCF or sponsor this event, mail your donation to LCF at (508 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801) or visit their website: https://www.landconservationfoundation.org/
The USDA office in Monticello has re-opened!
Our office phones and emails are now operational. We are returning messages that we were not able to access during the shutdown as fast as possible, but if you are still waiting on a reply please feel free to stop by the office or give us a call. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
For folks who have pre-ordered trees from our John Beckhart Memorial Tree Sale: Due to the government shutdown, our USDA office building remains inaccessible and we have changed the location for tree pick up scheduled for this Friday, October 10th from 8:00am – 4:30pm.
The new tree pick up location is 1115 N State Street, Monticello, IL 61856 on the north side of the buildings. The date and time (10/10, 8:00-4:30) will remain the same. Below is a map showing the new pick up location.
If you have any questions, please email us at piattswcd@gmail.com. Thank you!
Due to the lapse in federal government funding, the USDA office in Monticello will be closed until further notice. Staff will not have access to the building, office phones, or government issued email accounts until Congress restores funding.
To reach Piatt County SWCD employees, please email piattswcd@gmail.com. Thank you!
