The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host environmental speaker David Tingley on Friday, November 13 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Nadeau Hall teleconference room. The presentation is part of the Environmental Speaker Series on campus. The event is free and open to the public. Tingley will present a talk on the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture umbrella. NRCS provides technical and financial assistance for various conservation activities, primarily on agricultural land. He will touch on the history behind the agency and then get into some specific activities and projects that are being worked on in the St. John Valley region.  He also will discuss some of the primary federal programs that the NRCS is involved with in this part of the state.