More fallout from Governor Bruce Rauner's decision to suspend state funds for various programs.

$2.8 million of Soil and Water Conservation District funding is now on hold or about 37-percent of the total $7.5 million appropriation. That's a huge impact statewide and locally says Resource Conservationist Bill Joseph with the Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District office.

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Joseph says since 2002, Soil and Water Conservation District offices throughout Illinois have watched their state funding shrink by 70 percent.