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NACD PUBLIC LANDS SURVEY
Montana SWCD Districts are working hard on
the survey being conducted by the Public Lands
Committee of the National Association. The
following suggestions are made to expedite
getting this job done: 1) Take a copy of Form
#2 together with a copy of the instructions and
definitions to each agency having Public Land
in your district. Ask them to fill out the form
and then meet with your board at one of your
meetings 10 agree on the final figures for their
lands. 2) It is suggested that this survey be
done on a county basis as most agencies already
have figures on a county basis. Where more than
one district is in a county, these districts should
get together on this project. 3) This survey
should be completed and sent to Executive
Secretary, Montana Soil Conservation
Committee, School of Mines, Butte, by October.
4) A Form #2 should be filled out for state
lands. This may be a big project in some
districts. 5) The Conservation Needs Inventory
recently completed by all districts will provide
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Your Association President Sez:
The Bureau of Land Management is desirous of
helping the SWCD's in Montana in filling out
sheet No. 2 of the Public Lands questionnaire
for the NACD survey. The BLM District
Offices in their areas of responsibility are
located in Malta, Miles City, Billings,
Lewistown, Dillon, and Missoula. Your Area
Conservationist can help your District to con-
tact the BLM District Office in your area. It
will facilitate completion of the questionnaire by
SCD's if a board member can discuss it with a
BLM representative since they have made some
good progress on conservation planning and have
much valuable information.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is one of
our staunch supporters of all around conservation.
Their awards program for conservation achieve-
ments proves this. I would like to see every SCD
in Montana enroll in this program as an added
incentive to achieve greater goals in conservation.
Besides, the benefits derived from program
planning and the measuring of accomplishments
at the end of the program year are invaluable.
The new program year started May 1 so we can
get an early start in the 1962 awards competition.
Just a card to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company,
Akron, Ohio can enroll your District in the
competition
THE SUMMER DIRECTORS MEETING OF
MASWCD IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 23, IN
LEWISTOWN.
Area V of NACD is meeting in Bismark, North
Dakota June 14-15, with headquarters in the
Grand Pacific Hotel. North Dakota is always a
gracious host and there is an exceptional program
planned for both the men and the ladies. If at all
possible have your District represented there —
it is a good meeting of good people with problems
just like yours.
Executive Secretary's Report:
Montana State Soil Conservation Committee
In my travels to districts about the state, I
observe that Montana ranges are in serious
condition due to overgrazing, grasshoppers, and
drought of previous years. This condition of
denuded range is very vulnerable to Soil Eros-
ion. Ranchers are taking a big chance with fast
melting snows, heavy rains .cloudbursts, and
even wind erosion. Water cannot be properly
conserved. Allowing these overgrazed conditions
to come about has a serious effect on the
community, the state, and the nation. Cost
return meetings being held by SCS with small
groups of ranchers tell a very revealing story,
and should have some effect to motivate ranchers
to practice good range management. There is a
strong need for close follow up by technicians
with cooperators, to counsel with them on their
range "management" decisions. People do funny
things. One cooper ator agreed with the WUC
that he should cut down his herd by 50 head for
good land use, and to make the most profit.
However, when the grass greened up in the
spring he bought 50 extra head and continued to
overgraze!
Only about 10% of Montana Ranchers practice
good range management. Others realize but
don't practice the fact that grass must be grown
first to protect the soil and conserve the water;
and that by doing so they increase the produc-
tion potential to where there will be enough
available for grazing. Sometimes this takes
years, depending on conditions. Many ranchers
don't know what it takes to grow the most grass.
Economic conditions are also deterrent to con-
servation ranching, A rancher faced with
mortgage payments fools he has to take a chance
and graze that protective cover and turn it into
cash: or he has ,i short term lease and feels he
has to turn I ho pnileolive cover into cash; or
the market price isn'l just right and he can sell
for more by holding ;il the expense of over-
grazing. These hit unwise range management
decisions.
The following Bltilomeht ol a Range Technician
shows the big potential Montana has in regards
to development of our livestock industry:
"There are lJ0, 000, 000 acres in Montana of
which about 50,000,000 is privately owned
rangeland.
To save an average of an inch of rain each yum*
over all rangeland acres in Montana should pro-
vide an extra 200 lbs. of forage per acre.
Each 200 lbs of forage should produce about
80 lbs of beef per acre, or at 25£ per pound
this equals approximately $2. 00 per acre for
each additional inch of moisture saved. $2.00
by 50 million acres - $100, 000, 000. 00 that
could be added to the states economy.
If the 50, 000, 000 acres of privately owned
rangeland were improved one range condition
class it would carry approximately 625,000
more animal units (cow with calf) for an eight
month grazing season than it would carry in
the lower range condition class. At only one
pound of gain per day and 25<? per pound this
amounts to $37, 500, 000. 00 that could be added
to the States economy by increasing each acre
of rangeland one condition class. " Where else
can we add so much to the State's economy?
We have only to induce ranchers to do the job:
How? Here are some suggestions:
1. Education
a. SWCD education committee directing
more attention to range management.
b. Possibility of extension conducting
range management classes for ranchers.
c. Extension specialists give more empha-
sis to Soil and Water Conservation as
basic to production.
d. County Agent Supervisors follow close-
ly range management activities of
County Agent. Assist in SWCD and
Co-operator planning. More follow up
by County Agents to ranchers on how
to grow grass and what to do with it.
e. 4-H, FFA, all schools teach pride in
land for living, recreation.
f. Get good speakers on the subject talking
it up to farm groups, eivic groups.
More in local newspapers, radio. TV.
movies. Stress moral values.
2. Program & Research
a. Cost return meetings with ranchers
(educational as well as research)
b, More follow up by SCS technicians
especially with cooperators who take
Ihnlr ranch plans seriously, (concen-
trate on few rather than try to do too
lflwny with limited technical help
available.)
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c. Give greater emphasis to deferred
grazing. More liberal with ACP
cost sharing for deferred grazing.
(Maybe we have been wrong in stressing
incentive payments for permanent type
practices rather than management,
let's look at this again. )
d. Costs sharing for any practice by
allowed only to those who follow a
proper stocking rate, management
ranch plan.
e. Grazing Districts. Where individual
units are small, may be opportunity
for better range management by con-
solidation, especially if public lands
or absentee ownership lands are
involved and these agencies can't give
proper long term leases or supervision
as regards Soil & Water Conservation,
stocking rates, etc.
f. Land use Regulations! Might be con-
sidered under a strictly 100% volun-
tary cooperative agreement in connec-
tion with a grazing District.
Next in priority as a major conservation pro-
blem is Irrigation Water Management. Here
again probably only about 10% of the farmers are
handling their water correctly for greatest
production of crops, fish, wildlife, recreation'.
A majority of the farmers practice good farming
practices as evidenced by better yields as com-
pared to previous years. But there is a large
minority who still need to practice contour
farming, strip cropping, stubble mulching,
grass waterways, etc. , to prevent extensive
gully and sheet erosion & wind erosion still
occurring in Montana.
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Public Relations & Information
a. Exchange information with stookgrowers
organizations. Invite them to serve on
SWCD Committees.
b. Get our repeated articles and bulletins
on range management to all stockmen.
c. Recognize all people who practice good
range management. Get their name in
the paper, give awards, etc.
d. Keep legislators, governor informed,
planning boards, other public figures.
Get them to talk conservation, range
management benefits, water manage-
ment benefits, profits realized from
good land use. We ourselves should
be more vocal'.
4. Legislative
a. Make clear to legislators the impact
good range management has on the
states economy, that dollars invested
in promoting good range management,
thru our schools, our SWCD's, will
repay many times over.
b. Invite legislators to SWCD Committee
meetings or to serve on district legis-
p lative committees.
Pictured above are members of the Hill County
SWCD, Walter Dion, Raymond Patrick, Robert
Hockett, Chairman, holding a copy of their
recently published conservation Needs Inventory,
Leo Morse, Herman Krause, Area Conserva-
tionist, Doug Smith, County Agent and Secretary,
Metro Karaffa, Work Unit Conservationist, and
Bob Rasmus sen, County Agent Supervisor.
This board meets on time, the chairman conducts
a good meeting and all the members respond
enthusiastically. This district has an extensive
tree planting operation going on. The WUC
makes a report, the County Agent makes a
report. Of significance is the interest the
County Agent Supervisor and the Area Conser-
vationist give districts as shown by their
presence here.
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Public Lands Survey
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the figures for questions on private lands.
Care should be exercised in making these
figures as accurate as possible. This informa-
tion will prove valuable to supervisors, tech-
nicians, County Agents, Research people,
schools, etc. , and your association in planning
and carrying out the Soil and Water Conserva-
tion job. These facts are needed at all levels of
government. They will make your job easier.
CONSERVATION NEEDS INVENTORY BEING
PUBLISHED BY MANY DISTRICTS
Publication of the facts found by a Soil and Water
Conservation Needs Inventory of non-federal
lands which was beguniin 1957 is being accom-
plished by many of Montana's Soil and Water
Conservation Districts. Most districts have
these bulletins printed locally and financed by
local banks, service clubs, or other interested
organizations. Some are mimeographed. Most
of these bulletins contain six pages. Pictures
of conservation problems and accomplishments
are shown. Facts and figures concerning Grass-
lands, Woodlands, Dry Croplands, Irrigated
Croplands, Watersheds and Wildlife are given.
Districts by publishing and distributing these
facts provide valuable information to supervisors
and conservationists in planning district programs
of work. They give a good picture of the Soil
and Water Conservation job to be done. Farmer,
rancher, legislators, realtors, banks,
businesses will find this information valuable in
planning their operations inasmuch as they con-
cern our basic resource of Soil and Water which
properly cared for and developed mean much to
the economy of any community. Students in high
school and college will find this information
valuable reference material. Copies of these
publications can be had by writing to the local
Soil and Water Conservation District, County
Extension Agent for their county. The Soil
Conservation Service, Box 855 Bozeman, Montana
has a publication giving a composite of the Con-
servation needs for the state as a whole. The
state publication is titled "Montana Soil and
Water Conservation Needs Inventory" January-
1962.
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MONTANA CONSERVATION COUNCIL
"Time's a wasting'. Has your district bought
complimentary memberships in the Montana
Conservation Council for outstanding citizens in
your district? If you haven't, you've missed an
opportunity and failed to take advantage of a
bargain. These complimentary memberships
cost only $1. 00. The person for whom you pur-
chase it gets a year's membership in the
Montana Conservation Council and a year's sub-
scription to its newsletter ■ You may send in as
many names as you wish at $1. 00 each. Each
person whose name you send in will be sent a
letter from the Council explaining that your
district has bought him a complimentary mem-
bership. He will also be sent literature concerning
the Council.
"If ya haven't done it yet, why not do it now?"
MONTANA CONSERVATION COUNCIL URGES
STUDY OF MONTANA'S RECREATIONAL
POTENTIAL
Members of Montana Conservation Council met
in Butte April 13-14 for a very successful annual
meeting. The theme "How can Montana achieve its
Recreation Potential" brought many interesting
discussions concerning recreation development
on public lands and private lands and financing of
same.
The Council agreed that a further study should
be made of all the aspects of'Outdoor Recreation"
for its development in Montana, expecially as
concerns private lands. Montana has many
uncommitted recreation resources. There are
proposals of federal and state acquiring recrea-
tional land, and possibly directing it Irom its
present use. An inventory of available resources
or potentials on private lands is desired. Pro-
blems of development such as use fees, liabili-
ties, tax credits, access rights, land exchange,
lease of recreation rights, recreation districts,
policing, etc. , should be resolved.
JUDITH BASIN SWCD APPOINTS WUC TO HEAD
GRASS SEEDING ON MISSILE CABLE LINES
Edward C. Morgan, WUC, has been appointed by
Henry Evans, chairman of Judith Basin SWCD,
to head the Districts efforts in encouraging land 4
owners to seed disturbed areas on Missile Base
Cable lines to grass. Morgan is working with
a representative of General Goldsworthy's
command at Malmstrom Air Force Base on such
things as acquiring information of land occupiers
concerned and amounts of land needing attention
and time to do the work. Extension service is
also cooperating in informing the ranchers.
GOODYEAR AWARDS FOR 1960-1961
Score Sheets from several districts for the
Goodyear Awards program ending April 30, 1962
have been received at the State Soil Conservation
Committee office in Butte. These will be turned
over th the judging committee June 5 for judging
and winners awarded at the State Convention in
November.
All districts should re-enroll in this worthwhile
program. Any district that enrolls and submits
a score sheet is sure to at least be given an
award for their outstanding cooperator for that
year. The State Committee reminds every dis-
trict if they haven't already submitted their
enrollment card for this year they can still do so
and receive the necessary materials to fill out a M
score card. Do it NOW! You Secretary's ,
Chairman'.
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Shown above are members of the Choteau County
SWCD. Leland Cade is County Agent and
Secretary Lee Holstine, WUC, Bob Anderson,
Chairman, Other Members are Vade Hamma,
Vice Chairman, Fred Fishbaugh, Archie Sheperd,
Arnold Engellant, John McLean, Treasurer, Rae
Stevens, Associate, Roger Van Voast, Associate,
and Wes Lyons, Associate. Dave Pearson is
Engineers Aid. Also shown above at the right is
Vernon Glascock, ASC County Chairman, who
meets regularly with the board and gives a report.
This shows good relations. This board is another
'^excellent group. They use associate supervisors
-^to divide up the work load and get better repre-
sentation. Roadside grass seeding has been a
successful project in this district. This is a
cooperative effort involving the district, Weed
Board and County Commissioners. This district
at present has 386 cooperators out of a possible
668 farms. Of these 302 have conservation plans.
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH USDA
Forms for Districts to use to execute a new
Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture will be sent to districts by
the State Soil Conservation Committee soon after
July 1. This will be in line with Secretary
freeman's suggestion that thie Memorandum of
-Understanding be revised to include additional
conservation services which USDA now provides
districts.
MONTANA ASSOCIATION SWCD DIRECTORS TO
MEET JUNE 23.
The mid-year meeting of Directors of MASWCD
will be Saturday June 23 at Lewistown. The
meeting will commence at 10:00 a.m. Some
items scheduled for action are: Deciding what
the association policy should be on Financing of
Districts, how money should be raised, how much,
and what it should be used for. The directors
will hear reports from the President, the Women's
Auxiliary, Committee reports on Education,
Public Relations, Finance & Budget, Program &
Research, Legislative, Great Plains, Public Lands
& Watershed.
Supervisors of districts should inform their area
directors of any special problem they want action
on. Directors are Area I Morris Billehus,
Flaxville, Oscar Hippe, Froid. Area n Kenneth
Edwards, Glendive, Harold Jensen, Baker. Area
in Wayne Proff, Dutton, Jack Tweedy, Cut Bank.
Area IV Elmer Eklund, Baker, Jerry Kolar,
Stanford, Area V Carl Johnson, Livingston, Leslie
Criswell, Hysham. Area VI Bill Kessler, Kalispell,
Ralph Tower, Poison. Area vn Pete Jackson,
Norris, Frank Thompson, Wolf Creek.
The State Soil Conservation Committee will also
be meeting with the directors. Committee
members are Fred Sanborn, Great Falls, John
Schroeder, Lolo, Bill D'Ewart, Wilsall, Carl
Hunter, Fairview, Rorlief Aasheim, Bozeman,
Joe Asleson, Bozeman, C. Lowell Purdy, Helena,
Herschell Hurd, Bozeman.
AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIPS RAISE MONEY FOR
DISTRICTS
Flathead and Judith Basin Districts have recently
sold a number of affiliate memberships to raise
money for their district treasury.
Montana Association SWCD Policy on Affiliate
Memberships is:
1. That all funds from the sale of Affiliate
Memberships remain within the District.
2. When Affiliate Memberships are sold, a
thorough explanation of a Soil and Water Conser-
vation Districts purpose and program should be
given to the prospective affiliate member, (a copy
of the districts Long Range Program and a copy of
the districts Annual Work Plan).
3. That the Budget & Finance Committee of the
State Association sell memberships to large
companies operating within the state for a fee of
$5.00.
Districts may obtain certificates to issue by
writing to the Secretary of the State Soil Conserva-
tion Committee, School of Mines, Butte.
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SOIL STEWARDSHIP WEEK
1962
Zhe earth is the Cord's
It is the universal liquid of life and part of
our very being. It is everywhere around us,
in the air and earth. Without it we could
not survive, nor could any plant, animal, or
other living thing.
It is a final necessity, for which man has
devised no substitute.
Water can be so abundant as to invite waste
and neglect. It can be so scarce as to set
man in earnest contest for its vital uses.
It demands understanding and respect.
It has the power under direction to turn the
mighty turbines of Grand Coulee.
Unmanaged, it can strike in the angry form
and force of floods.
It can produce crops, trees, and grass-
or the ugliness of raw gullies cut into an
unprotected countryside.
Water provides the drama of Old Faithful,
the majesty of the Mississippi, and the
grandeur of Niagara Falls. In its infinite
variety it is a thirst -quenching drink for the
children of Atlanta, a cooling accessory for
the steel mills of Ohio, and vital irrigation
for the sunward fields of Arizona.
It appears as soaking rain on Olympia's
forests, the fleecy hush of a Vermont snowfall
and the quick excitement of a Kentucky
thunderstorm.
It is a miraculous gift of God, given to us
for our refreshment and endless uses. But
our neglect can waste it; our misuse can
turn it into offensive sewers of pollution.
Water tests our sense of responsibility to I
God and man. It asks for care, requires our
self-discipline, and responds to management.
This priceless water has been here before
and by God's plan will be returned again and
again for us to use according to our maturity
either with wisdom or with shameful neglect
Consider our water. Consider it well.
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Pictured above clockwise are Leslie Criswell, Dick Setterstrom, Joe Asleson,
Morris Billehus, Oscar Hippe, Fred Sanborn, Herschell Hurd, Mrs. Leslie Criswell,
Henry Evans, Frank Thompson, John Schroeder, Pete Jackson, Kenneth Edwards,
O. M. Ueland, To the right are Ed Morgan, and Carl Hunter
YOUR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SEZ:
At the Area V meeting in Bismarck,
North Dakota there was some good dis-
cussion on District operations and
Public Relations, as well as many
other subjects. It is apparent that
Supervisors are lax in some of their
duties relative to these subjects.
Committee responsibilities and organi-
zation of Boards for individual respon-
sibilities has been mentioned before.
A Work Plan, or program of planned
activities for a district is one of the
first steps a Board of Supervisors must
take at the start of the year. A well -thought
out program of the year's activities
should be a written document and for
good Public Relations and Publicity, it
should be published in the local news-
paper so that the general public can
know and appreciate what the District is
doing. Continued on Page 5
Directors of MASWCD Meet in Lewistown
Directors of Montana Association met in
Lewistown June 23 for their midsummer
meeting along with members of the Montana
State Soil Conservation Committee.
President Leslie Criswell reported of his
attendance at NACD meeting in Philadelphia
and his meetings with Congressman Battin
and Olsen and Senator Metcalf in Washing-
ton D. C. also of the Area V meeting in
Bismarck. Data submitted by Criswell in
regards to Conservation Needs in Montana
went into the Congressional record.
Criswell stated that the most important
problems facing supervisors are need for
good public Realtions and Finances, es-
pecially need for clerical help to release
technicians for field work.
National Director Oscar Hippe reported on
his meetings in Washington D. C. and
meetings with various congressional com-
mittees, and getting appropriations for
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various Conservation Programs.
State Conservationist Herschell Hurd
reported that technical help for Great
Plains contracts are paid for out of
regular funds, and consequently this
reduces SCS assistance to districts.
Directors reported on problems in their
areas which included shortage of techni-
cal help, ACP funds running out, Missile
Cable Line reseeding and need for amend
ing state law to include reseeding of all
surface disturbance on any kind of right
of way; waste of time the farmer and
agencies have in connection with gaining
rights-of-ways, water rights, financial
assistance to districts, weed problems.
Committee reports were as follows:
Education - Efforts should be made to
get money to reactivate position of Con-
servation coordinator in State Depart-
ment of Public Instruction, and for
Range Management and other Conser-
vation Specialists on the Extension staff.
Twelve districts have applications for
nineteen teachers for Conservation Work-
shops. In 1961 fourteen districts offered
scholarships but had no takers.
Montana might ask County Superintendent
of Schools to include a Conservation
Seminar in alternate years in their
yearly meetings with teachers.
Budget & Finance - Sixteen districts
haven't paid their 1962 dues. Executive
Secretary was asked to visit delinquent
districts to see if they wanted a district!
Maybe they could be consolidated or ab-
andoned. Montana is one of fourteen
states in U.S. without appropriation for
aid to districts. The directors passed a
resolution for a request of the State Com-
mtttee for a supplemental budget of $24,000
for aid to districts for the next bienneum,
with the provision this money be distributed
75% according to need and 25% according to
number of operators.
Public Lands - The NACD Public Lands
Survey was discussed and the directors
moved that O. M. Ueland represent the
state association at the NACD Public
Lands Committee meeting in Flagstaff,
Arizona, August 2-3, Considerable
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Liberty
County.
concern was voiced over conservation
practices on State lands, and agreement
seemed to be that it would be desirable
if the state could get away from a bid
basis in leasing so far as conservation is
concerned.
Great Plains - 440 contracts in Montana,
$1, 055, 199 has been paid out in cost
Sharing. It was recommended that policy
on Great Plains be formulated by Great
Plains states for councilmen.
Program & Research - NACD for first
time is getting a hearing with the Bureau
of Budget, Annual report should be dessi-
minated by all means. Suggest that one
row shelterbelt tree planting should be
stepped up. Montana is ahead of other .
states in strip cropping and stubble mulch
tillage.
Legislative Committee report - 1. By-
laws of association need amending to
identify standing committees and duties
and responsibilities of same. 2. Report
at convention on desirability of means of
electing a councilman. 3. Legislators
should be informed of Conservation legis-
lation before they go to Helena, districts
should confer with them beforehand.
Directors should engage legislators to
speak at their Area meetings on approp-
riate topics.
Area Meeting dates were set as follows:
Area I October 2
Area V October 4
Area n October 3 Area VI October 9
Area HI October 10 Area VII October 11
Area IV October 5
President Criswell gave a summary of
the coming annual meeting which will be
at Livingston Nov. 15 - 16. The theme
of the convention will be "Conservation
Builds Recreation". The Park County
SWCD is working hard to make your
visit in Livingston an enjoyable one.
Nothing is easier than fault-
finding;
no talent, no self-denial, no brains
no character are required to set
up in
the grumbling business.
— ROBERT WEST
Range Management Society Meetings -
The Inter mountain Section and Northern
Great Plains Section of the American
Society of Range Management held meetings
in June and July at Havre. Many ranchers
supervisors, county agents, and techni-
cians, attended, and learned many inter-
esting range management facts. Of
Special interest was a tour of and pictures
of work being done at the Northern
Montana Branch Station, Research there
shows promise of many ways of growing
grass and of new grasses.
This American Society of Range Manage-
ment prints a monthly, "Journal of
Range Management,"" which has the
best obtainable information on Range
Management. Ranchers and especially
supervisors should subscribe and read
this valuable publication. Dues &
Subscription are $8 . 00. Mail to Executive
Secretary, P. O. Box 5041, Portland 13,
Oregon.
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make.
Ere life is flown,
A stumbling block
Or a stepping stone.
— «. t. SHARPE
DISTRICT DOINGS
Area Supervisors, technicians and County
Agents toured the Plant Materials Center
at Bridger July 18. Here many grasses
are being grown and seed harvested for
use as basic atuCK
Three Rivers District employ their local
newpaper editor as their secretary . He
is Lyle K. Williams, publisher of the
Three Forks Herald.
Jefferson County SWCD provides agree-
ment forms for contractor s and coopera-
tors to negotiate before any work is done
and thus avoid many misunderstandings.
Supervisor Dale Re id of Ruby Valley
District believes cooperators in his
district are improving their ranges
considerably and taking range manage-
ment seriously.
Go to
your
Conser-
vation
meetings.
or your
crops will
take a
beating
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Good
Chester,
Mon tana
Chairman Gene Hanson of the Jefferson
Vallen district reports much interest in
a proposed drainage project near White-
haU. Application has been made for this
as a Watershed project. Thirty farmers
with 6,000 acres will benefit.
John Buttleman, Chairman of the Three
Rivers District and former chairman of
Montana State Soil Conservation Committee
believes in starting meetings on time.
He uses the count down system. Of course
he has all his supervisors there waiting
to go.
Chairman Jeffers of Madison district
reports a lack of finances in his district.
He states they raised a couple of hundred
dollars last year by contributions from
cooperators but is not so sure it will go
every year. (Ed. Note. Conservation
pays. Don't be afraid to ask. You won't
get much if you don't'.)
County Agent Lee Rovig of Liberty County
SWCD arranged a range tour near Tiber
Reservoir. The tour included a visit to
nearby range areas to see first hand some
examples of range condition and use , and
talks on Plant Identification by Fred
Blaisdell, WUC; SCDSCS Planning Assistance
by Fred, Grazing Response - Root Growth
by James Newman of SCS, Range Condition
by Joe Zacex, SCS Range Management
Specialist, and Economics of Range Manage-
ment by Lee.
Many districts have held range tours. Whether
only a few or many attend, they are very well
worthwhile. This has been a good year for
growing grass and many interesting observa-
tions can be made on what grows on ranges
that have been misused and those that haven't.
All districts should arrange several meetings
a year to bring benefits of good range use to
attention of ranchers and public.
Chairman Sam Kovando of Stillwater District
and WUC Vern Sundberg report serious Leafy
Spurge weed infestation in their district. The
extremely high cost of control has prohibited
doing much with it. Do any other districts
have any suggestions?
Sam was also concerned about the new Basic
Memorandum of Understanding with USDA
which districts are requested to negotiate,
relative to the provision that districts make no
charges for any assistance provided by USDA.
This has always been so. Districts can charge
for services they perform, such as collecting,
providing materials, etc., so long as Federal
REPORT ON STATE SOIL CONSERVATION
COMMIT EE MEETING
The State Soil Conservation Committee
met in Lewistown June 22 - 23. The
Basic Memorandum of Understanding
Agreement form was approved for use
by districts in requesting assistance from
United States Department of Agriculture.
These forms will be distributed by the
Executive Secretary as soon as a supply
is printed. The Committee urges dis-
tricts to enter into this new agreement
which offers assistance in other Conser-
vation activities such as water, recreation,
watershed, wildlife, etc., as well as
soil. Districts will be expected to raise
and update their long term Conservation
Program. A strong desire was voiced
for the need for a Supplemental Memor-
andum of Understanding between districts
and ASCS to better clarify each others
responsibilities and assistance to one
another in the Conservation field. Ex-
ecutive Secretary was directed to work
on this-
State Lands - It was suggested supervisors
can and should accept more responsibility
in promoting Conservation on these lands
and to help the State Land Board in prob-
lems they have in this connection. It was
suggested that Mons Teigen, Commissioner
of State Lands, meet with the board regu-
larly with the view of coordinating efforts.
State Law is broad in its statement that
districts promote and coordinate Soil
& Water Conservation on all lands within
their boundaries.
Roadside Seeding: Joe Asleson explained
that the Highway Department have asked
for specifications on grass seeding. He
also stated that the Highway Department
is authorized by law to spend 5% of their
funds for research. Negotiations are in
process now to get researcn m now to
seed roadsides. Montana has varied con-
ditions. The Committee asked the Secre-
tary to follow up on this, encourage
experiment station to study, encourage
supervisors to talk with County Commiss-
ioners. The opportunity to harvest hay
from roadsides should be explored. The
Highway Department reports no contracts
have been let this year for seeding sec-
ondary roads pending agreements with
County Commissioners. Contracts for
seeding Primary Roads are quite involved
Big Sandy and Choteau Districts would
like to get roadside seeding contracts.
Federal funds cannot be used by local
governments for work they do themselves
must be contracted to private enterprise.
Soil
is
gone
but
taxes
go
on -
Keith
Duncan
Joplin.
Montana
Range Management problems and ways of
getting to ranchers with information was
discussed. . Joe Asleson stated bulletins
were actually very ineffective. Pete
Jackson stated that meeting with ranchers
in cost return meetings and the setting up
of certain ranchers (with their permission)
as examples, was probably the best way to
get improvements in range management.
The work of Bob Ross, SCS; Carl Parker
of Extension, and others were cited as
good examples of interesting ranchers in
better Range Management and should be
expanded
Tree Planting Program - Use of Field
Windbreaks are still controversial in
Montana but much promise is being shown
with single row plantings. Districts should
be encouraged to take on tree planting pro-
jects.
Gas & Oil Commission - Carl Hunter stated
that an investigation has to be done, some
action should be taken, in which the Gas &
Oil Commission is allowing flooding of
oil wells to deplete fresh water supplies
and contaminate others. It was suggested
the Association bring pressure on legisla-
tors to get funds for State Engineer to ad-
minster Underground Water Code to
suggest this to MASWCD directors. This
would help get investigation.
Change of Name approved - Reserve Soil
and Water Conservation District application
was approved to change their name to
Sheridan County Soil and Water Conserva-
tion District. All districts have made
application to change their name to include
"Water".
State Committee Budget - At the request
of directors of Montana Association SWCD,
the committee agreed to submit a supple-
mental budget for Aid to Districts, This
money if appropriated is to be used for
Administrative expenses of districts, 25%
such seems to be distributed to each dis-
trict on a basis of number of operator s»
and 75% of such seems on a basis of needs
as determined by the State Committee.
Watershed Applications were received and
approved for the following: Shotgun Water-
shed in Roosevelt County which involves
90 operators and 250,000 acres. Whitehall
Watershed which is primarily a 6, 000 acre
drainage project and involves 30 farmers.
An application for Crooked Creek in Carbon
County and Wyoming was referred to
Wyoming authorities.
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employees services are not directly involved.
Districts can ask for and accept contributions
so long as it is understood it is for district
operations and not for federal government
operations
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Shown above is a single row field windbreak
on the John Byrne farm south of Laurel in
Yellowstone County. These plantings are one
year old, as tall as the wheat, and in excellent
condition. The outstanding feature of this
man's operation is that he controls the weeds
) about the trees with chemicals. It has been
an experiment with him, and where he found
it practically impossible to keep the weeds
down by clean cultivation , this particular
chemical he uses does no apparent harm to
the 45 miles of windbreak he has treated.
Byrnes has a Great Plains Contract and is to
be congratulated on the fine job he is doing.
Supervisors of Area V recently had the plea-
sure of touring his place. Incidentally, he is
a believer in the take half, leave half of the
grass on his ranges and they show it.
(Continued from Page 1, Your Assoc.
President Sez)
The Guide Books printed by NACD can be of
great help in arranging the program, with
various jobs assigned to individual super-
visors. Then every super-'isor has his
work and he knows to whom he can look
for various phases of the program. This
can work and it will shorten the length
of the meetings of the Boards and facilitate
District work. The value of organization
is sometimes amazing.
DIRECTORY OF MONTANA SUPERVISORS
AVAILABLE
A directory listing all the supervisors in the
59 Soil and Water Conservation Districts in
Montana is available form the Montana Soil
Conservation Committee office at the School
of Mines in Butte. If you have not received
a copy and desire one, send us your request.
GRASS ROOTS SURVEY COMPLETED BY
TREASURE AND WD3AUX DISTRICTS.
Treasure and Wibaux SWCD's have completed
and mailed in their NACD Public Lands Grass
Roots Survey. Many districts are struggling
with it. It is particularly important that
Public Lands agencies get the form early
so they can be working on them.
Arnold Bolle New Dean of Forextry at MSU
Congratulations to Arnold Bolle who has been
appointed Dean of Montana State University
School of Forestry. Arnold at one time was
employed by Soil Conservation Service before
taking a teaching assignment at MSU. He is
presently President of Montana Conservation
Council and Montana Woodland Council. Dean
Bolle replaces Ross Williams who has re-
tired.
Persons building Irrigation Storage Dams
above Canyon Ferry must obtain Bureau of
Reclamation approval.
Inquiry has been made relative to building
of dams above Canyon Ferry. Inasmuch as
the Bureau of Reclamation claims unappro-
priated rights as of the time of the begin-
ning of operation of Canyon Ferry dam,
clearance must be made with them on any
projects being developed above Canyon
Ferry. Four private and two watershed
projects have since been approved, but
the parties concerned have to pay 14.3 $
per acre for the water for forty years,
and 5£ maintenance, and abide by the
160 acre limitation.
STATISTICALLY ON THt BALL
One hundred men and two women cooks were employed
at a lumber camp. The owner, a stickler for business-like
procedures, penned a memo to his foreman: "Make your
reports brief and snappy. Don't waste words. Give precise
figures."
The foreman's next monthly report read: "Last month
2$ of the men married 100% of the women employees."
* * *
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS IN WORKING TOGETHER IN SOIL
CONSERVATION DISTRICTS - Courtesy Arizona Association SCD
1. Recognize the Responsibilities of Others - Mutual understanding and respect for the
responsibilities, plans and activities of all organizations cooperating with District.
2. Know the Total Conservation Job - Cooperative determination of the total conservation
job in the District and cooperative development of an annual plan of action.
3. Appraise the Resources Needed - Make a cooperative annual appraisal of the personnel,
equipment, material and other resources needed for satisfactory progress in the District
for the year ahead and in accordance with the long-range program of the District.
4. Report on Objectives, Problems and Progress - Cooperation in making it known to
District Cooperators, other farms and ranchers and the District Community in general,
factual information about the problems, progress and objectives of the District,
SO MUCH WITH "SO LITTLE"
It is difficult for many people to understand how Soil Conversation Districts can be so effective
in their work, when they are managed by non- salaried local people who have no power to levy
taxes, issue bonds or compel anyone in the District to do anything for conservation problems
oi the soil or water resources of the area.
The Soil Conservation Districts provide a way for individuals and groups of landowners or
operators to band together to cope with their mutual soil and water conservation problems
within a given area. Usually, this is something they cannot do effectively as individuals, for
their resources as individuals are limited in this field. It is another application of the age-
old idea that united we stand, divided we fall — applied in the Soil Conservation Districts to the
significant problem of saving and developing our key resources of soil and water for this and
the future generations of Americans.
Various agencies of the state and federal governments have an important part in making these
conservation Districts successful, for they give these Districts invaluable technical assistance
research information, educational aid and ease the load of conservation with cost -sharing 'agree-
ments for worthwhile and needed conservation practices and projects.
Working with District Cooperators and state and federal agencies, numerous business firms with
direct interest in the welfare of farming and ranching, the press, radio-television, schools and
churches make very significant contributions to the conservation programs through the Districts.
Underlying all this is the fact that the Soil Conservation Districts are based on the democratic
belief that local people know their local problems best and can cope successfully with those
soil and water conservation problems, if they have the encouragement cooperation and
assistance of those in position to assist. Putting this idea into practice is the secret of how
such Districts can be so effective and do so much with "so little".
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YOUR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SEZ:
The dates for the seven Area Meetings in
Montana have been set for early in October.
These are important meetings for District
Supervisors because here is layed the ground-
work for the State Association, both in prin-
ciple and action.
This years State Convention will set up our
policies, and will to a great extent determine
the future course of our State Association.
Are we, as District Supervisors, willing to
accept additional responsibilities and duties
so as to keep abreast of current happenings
and keep up with other Districts ? Our action
at the Area meetings and the State Convention
will give the answer.
) will accelerate action at the convention if we
can have the resolutions come from the Area
meetings. They afford a golden opportunity
for your deliberations, fiend your resolutions
to me for screening soon after the Area meetings.
I would like to have them by November 1.
STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
MEETING to be SEPTEMBER 13 & 14
The next meeting of the State Soil Conservation
Committee will be September 13 & 14 at the
State Water Conservation Board office in Helena.
Some items on the Agenda are: Conservation on
State Lands with Mons Teigen, Commissioner of
State Lands, reporting; Conservation Education
in Montana's schools with Harriet Miller, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, reporting;
a discussion and review of the use of Underground
Water to flush oil wells as a concern of the Little
Beaver Soil & Water Conservation District; a
review of P.L. 566 Watershed Projects; and a
report of Soil & Water Conservation District
Activities.
The Executive Secretary has noticed a lessoning
of activity by district supervisors during the
summer months, some districts having missed
a meeting or two, and many supervisors being
absent from meetings that were held. This calls
for better planning of our TIME.
A woman's work is never done, especially if she
depends upon her husband or daughter to do it.
Probably the most important thing you can do in
your Area meetings is to 1 ominate your State
Association Directors. Think about it and discuss
the prospects with other Supervisors. We need
men who will act, and not be a Director in name
only. The Board of Directors, only 14 men in
all, elects the State Association President ttfld
Vice-President. Talk it up and then make your
Director selection wisely. There are many good
prospects among the Supervisors in your Area
— choose them and then support them while they
represent you in office.
— Leslie Criswell
Report on
NACD PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE MEETING
The NACD Public Lands Committee met at
Flagstaff, Arizona, August 2 & 3.
Progress on the current Grass-Roots survey
for an Inventory of Resource Conservation and
Development Needs within Soil and Water Con-
servation Districts in the eleven western Public
Lands States shows a beginning in all states,
and it is anticipated it will be completed this
fall and winter. No big problems were presented
all agencies are cooperating. The survey isn't
as big a job as it seems says Bob McClelland,
Western Area Program Officer.
Some use of this survey material will be:
1. Basis of program of work in districts.
2. Use with County Commissioners, Chambers
of Commerce, Planning Boards, etc.
3. Needs to be publicity on these figures to get
public acquainted with resource needs.
4. Use for districts to update their long range
program in line with USDA and USDI Memoran-
dums of Understanding.
5. Tie these figures closely to farm or ranch
plans.
6. There is need for lots of technical advice
from technicians. Supervisors handle people.
All three groups, agencies, people served,
supervisors, must be kept together and made a
part of any long-range program. Not just a
district program, but each agency's as well.
Gordon Zimmerman, NACD Executive Secretary,
pointed out the following End Uses of this Inven-
tory for use by district boards:
1. Supervisors are local government whose
basic job is to learn and plan.
2. Reappraisal (men of vision who guess right)
3. Redraft a new good useful program.
4. Work on public lands go together with private
lands.
5. Each agency is responsible for developing
their own plans. We have asked agencies to
help us, we must help them.
Jones, beset by stress ond strife,
Begged this single boon of life:
"Give me hqlf a chance!" Know what?
Half a chance was all he got!
— ANITA RASKIN
6. Private and public programs can't progress
without technical help. Lots of money is requested
of Congress to carry out programs. This inven-
tory puts supervisors in an intelligent position to
know, so they aren't a front man, a yes man, or g
a man who doesn't know'.
This survey can be used for forming an Overall
Economic Development Plan. Increased grazing?
Increased Recreation? etc. ?
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Carver told of
two loanguages being spoken, those of diverse
interests,; and those with common interests. He
stated our chief concern is with leaving the land
better than we found it. Secretary Carver had
high praise for the work of districts and the pos-
sibility of cooperating in planning and -carrying
out those plans.
Mr. Beatty of the Forest Service told the group
that this Inventory is step One.
Developing of the programs is step Two.
Time was is past — thou canst it not recall.
Time is thou hast — employ thy portion small.
Time future is not, and may never be.
Time present is the only time for thee!
— Inscription on an ancient sun dial.
District Programs
Agency programs
Memorandums of understanding is step Three.
Joint Meetings - Public Agencies must
work with all interest groups.
The Public Lands Committee made the following
recommendations :
1. That each of the eleven western states review
activities each year of all agencies, state com-
mittees take lead.
2. Review the Brownfield-Lee proposal that ad-
d'£g->nal fees comtemplated being charged by BLM
ts used for Conservation purposes.
3. That ACP funds be allowed to build practices on
federal land which would benefit private lands.
***************
Supervisors are reminded to consider the progress
of the NACD Public Lands Grass-Rppts Survey at
each of their meetings now and until completion.
Remember all lands, public and private, will need '
to have a Form 2 filled out with the cooperation of
each agency having responsibility for Conservation.
Review your instructions .
H.D. HURD, STATE CONSERVATIONIST, SPEAKS
At the last annual meeting of the MASWCD a panel
it discussed the subject, "Are Federal Aids Necessary
l| ' to Soil and Water Conservation?" Many challenges
to SWCDs, SCS and others were presented by panel
members. Panel member comments were thought-
provoking. It was a good panel.
This panel caused me to do some thinking. One
panelist questioned the efficiency of SCS. It was
indicated that low producing employees cannot be
dismissed.
SCS is continually concerned about efficient opera-
tions. We have a regular program to locate low
producing work units and individuals. Goals are
established each year for each work until staff.
When accomplishment of goals falls substantially
short of goals, the reasons are determined and
action is taken. If the reason is a "lazy" individual,
he is given a period of time to get his production of
work up to minimum standards . If he fails to do
this and maintain reasonable accomplishment, he
is dismissed. Fifteen SCS employees in Montana
have been dismissed, or resigned to avoid dis-
missal, in the last five years.
Plans, records and "paper work" of SCS people
was referred to during the panel discussion. We
fe have no "paper work" in SCS to my knowledge.
™ We do write plans, keep records, make reports,
prepare designs, correspond, etc. Such work is
done in the office and all of it serves a purpose in
getting conservation on the land.
Last winter we decided to increase our efforts to
find out all of the jobs SCS people do which may not
be essential. Coupled with this, we surveyed all
locations in the state to get time-saving suggestions.
We informed all locations that nothing was "sacred".
Policies, procedures, and even laws, can be changed
We got lots of ideas from field people. Many of
them were good. It resulted in cutting out sixteen
things we had been doing that were not essential.
True, some of them were small, but a lot of small
items add up tomanyman hours of time saved.
Twenty-four other time saving devices are under
study and no doubt many of them will be put into
effect.
Any suggestions that anyone has for improvement
of SCS efficiency are solicited. I assure you that
careful consideration will be given to such sug-
gestions . — h. D. Hurd
,\ Doing business without advertising is like winking
at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing,
but no one else does.
* * *
A young couple on a honeymoon may be living a
life of "coo-existence."
Phil Van Cleave, SCS Range Conservationist,
(white shirt pointing) talks "grass" to 4-H mem-
bers and leaders. The Little Beaver SWCD
planned and staged an over- night range tour for
the 4-H boys and girls in Fallong County taking
Range Management.
Leaving by horseback and riding many miles
through the ranges, then staying overnight under
the stars and returning home the next afternoon
proved to be a big thrill and a real education to
these young people. Many stops were made along
the way to learn about plants, range problems and
management. Contests were held to determine
who could gather and correctly identify the largest
number of grasses, forbs, and shrubs in a desig-
nated time.
Little Beaver supervisors attending and assisting
felt well rewarded for their efforts. They feel
that Range Management is the most important
Conservation objective for them to reach.
At the overnight stopping place a potluck supper
and program was held with many parents and
other townpeople attending. Van Cleave spoke
on the "Economics of Range" and Bob Brown,
Fish & Game Bioligist spoke on the "relationship*
of range and wildlife".
This was the first time this type of tour has been
considered here and it looks now as though it may
become an annual affair.
—Submitted by Roy Houser for Harold Jensen,
Chairman.
Birds are
entangled by their feet,
and men by their *
tongues.
DISTRICT DOINGS
The RESERVE SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT
(now the Sheridan County Soil & Water Conserva-
tion District) has been named grand award con-
servation district for 1961-1962.
This district was named by state agricultural
leaders who reviewed the work of farmers and
supervisors of seven districts entered in the 15th
annual Soil Conservation Awards Program of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron Ohio.
Two men from the district, Dale F. Bummer,
Westby, and Jack Rasmussen, Antelope, will be
guests of the rubber company on a four -day tour
to Goodyear Farms in December to study con-
servation on the 14, 000 acre desert farm.
Secnnd place honors were won by the Roosevelt
Soil & Water Conservation Districts, which named
Eldon Picard, Bainville, as the outstanding farmer-
cooper ator.
***********
John Marks writes in the Townsend Star:
Conservation Camp was held this year at Bitter-
root Youth Camp in Flathead county. This camp
is located about thirty miles from Kalispell and
is situated in a beautiful spot in the mountains.
I won my trip in January by giving a demonstra-
tion on "How Organic Matter Helps Soil Structure".
Arlene Bieber was the other camper from this
county and Vic Hoxsey, who took us to camp.
There were more than one hundred 4-H members,
Country Extension Agents and leaders from over
Montana attending this camp, as well as three
Canadian 4-H members.
There was a choice of four workshops: Range
Management, Fish and Wildlife, Forestry and
Soil and Water Conservation. I chose Range
Management, taught by Don Ryerson, assistant
professor of range management and Malcolm
Adams, County Agent of Toole County.
The scholarships to conservation camp are paid
for by Charles L. Horn, president of Federal
Cartridge Corporation of Minneapolis. Trans-
portation to and from camp was paid by Soil
Conservation District of BROADWATER County.
"If the government can legislate two yearly tax
tributes, it can doubtless legislate us a couple of Sum-
mers each year and a double harvest time. How else
are we going to meet these ever increasing taxes?"
—Hybres to Mark Anthony in 42 B. C.
In Granite Soil & Water Conservation District,
ditch lining is underway on the Southside Canal,
using earthen clay compacted in place with heavy
equipment. Bud Lane, contractor of Three Forks 4
is doing the work.
Clyde Sandon, supervisor of BOX ELDER SWCD
in Carter County, feels that a big problem dis-
tricts have is in the way we misrepresent our
ranges and conservation improvements and
criticize our ranchers for not doing a good job.
Clyde points to the bigger and better calves we
are weaning, and the bigger lambs that are coming
off the ranges. There must be an awful lot of
good range management over what there has been
to do this. Sandon is also a member of the Grass
Conservation Commission which administers the
State Grazing Districts. They have done a won-
derful job.
A special meeting was called by Chairman Jeffers
of the MADISON SWCD to discuss ways and means
of dealing with range fires. Representatives from
Fire districts, Sheriffs Office, County Commis-
sioners, Forest Service, Soil Conservation Ser-
vice, and Extension Service attended.
Larry Osburnsen, Area Conservationist, at
Missoula believes that officers of Public Land
Agencies should be re-alerted, or reminded to
fill out From 2 of th NACD survey which districts M
have asked them to do. Will you Forest Service,
BLM, Indian Service, Bureau of Reclamation,
people who read this take notice ? And Soil Con-
servation Service on private lands ? District
Chairmen might get on the phone too'.
Customer: "Why do you have an apple for your
trademark?"
Tailor: "If it hadn't been for an apple, where do
you suppose the clothing business would be today?"
GLACIER COUNTY SWCD at their last meeting
signed agreements with Don Kraft and Axel Hanson
and reviewed a Conservation plan for Dale and
Herman Vermulm. Gordon Maston WUC and Lyle
VanDover, BIA technician reported on conserva-
tion activities within the district. Plans for the
Triangle SWCD Supervisors meeting in October
was discussed.
LEWIS & CLARK SWCD conducted a twilight range
tour with Joe Zacek, SCS range specialist on the
Frank Thompson Ranch August 15. A legislative
condidates tour is also being planned. Subscrip-
tions to "Soil Conservation" were purchased for
secretary, supervisors, and legislative candidates. *
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men
who have grown hopeless about them.
-CLAIRE BOOTH IUCE
CONSERVATION
EDUCATION
It is school time again. Montana youngsters will
be learning many things, among them Conservation.
Many Montana Soil & Water Conservation Districts
include in their Educational Programs tours for
Grade School children, visits. to schools by Super-
visors, County Agents, Technicians, to pass out
literature on Conservation, to show Conservation
films, to give talks, to, sponsor Conservation
Essays, Conservation Posters, to provide teachers
with teaching materials, etc. Many districts offer
substantial prizes in the many types of contests.
During the summer range tours for cUttdren and
adults, are popular. Water Conservation and
Wildlife is studied. School Teachers attend Con-
servation Workshops offered by Montana Colleges.
4-H members attend Conservation Camp.
Science Fairs in Montana schools show greater
interest in Conservation projects. Textbooks
used in our schools, have much Conservation
material and references.
Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisors
together with the wonderful progress of Extension
Agents, 4-H, school teachers, colleges, Boy
Scouts, Conservation Groups, and Conservation
agencies, can take much credit for the above.
How does Conservation Education Program do in
your district?
Following is a typical and suggested set up for youi
district:
Chairman of Board appoints a Supervisor as chair-
man of Districts Education Committee. This
Education Chairman appoints his committee by
asking some or all of the following to help formu-
late the District Conservation Education program:
Superintendent of Schools, County Agent, School
teacher, Vo-ag instructor, 4-H leader, Boy or
Girl Scout Leader, Fish & Game representative,
Sportsmen's representative, technicians of SCS,
Forest Service, etc. This group should meet
twice a year. The Supervisor who is chairman
should report on progress, activity, or problems,
to his monthly board meeting, and include in his
report all items of conservation Education going
on in the district. A District Conservation Edu-
cation Program would include many of the items
listed above together with when it will be done
and who will be responsible.
What help do teachers want most in teaching con-
servation? Research by school administrators
show the following: (1) Charts of basic concepts;
(2) Lesson outlines to follow; (3) Visual Aids.
Blaine County Soil & Water Conservation District
have distributed "A Conservation Guide for Blaine
County Schools" to all schools in their district.
This booklet was prepared by Herb DeVries, County
Agent, and applies to Conservation in Blaine County
as well as the State and Nation.
Montana Conservation Council have prepared a
book "The Conservation of Montana's Natural
Resources, A Handbook for Montana School Teachers"
for use with another booklet titled" Suggested
Activities for the Teaching of the Conservation
of Natural Resources". These booklets are
available at Reporter Printing and Supply Co. ,
Billings, Montana. They have excellent lesson
outlines and visual aid references.
A text -workbook titled "Learning about Soil &
Water Conservation" is available from the John-
sen Publishing Company, 1135-37 R. Street,
Lincoln 8, Nebraska.
Montana State University School of Education has
published a "Study Guide for Teaching Conserva-
tion" which was prepared by a Conservation Work-
shop in 1957. This book contains excellent out-
lines for integration of Conservation in all classes,
grades 1-8, together with many library references.
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What concern is Conservation Education to Dis-
trict Supervisors?
Education is the key to any program. Therefore
supervisors must recognize Conservation Educa-
tion of highest importance, for only a conserva-
tion-minded people can safe guard and improve
our remaining heritage of renewable resources in
the future. Contacts must be made with educators
to get the job done if it is not being done, to assist,
encourage, plan, provide.
Supervisors know that many times the lessons of
conservation teaching that the parents otherwise
would not hear reach the ears of adults from the
mouths of children.
Supervisors, why not make a date to visit your
local School Superintendent, and talk Conserva-
tion Education?
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything.
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do something that
I can do.
— EDWARD EVERETT HALE
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District Supervisors can remind themselves that
we are pledged not only to Conservation but to
Democracy as well.
To make Democracy strong we must take an active
part as citizens in government or some Autocracy
will. District Supervisors have the additional
responsibility of continuing their good job as
officials of local government. It might be useful
to review our obligations under our State laws
which provide for Districts.
DATES TO REMEMBER
Area Meeting Dates are as follows:
Area I October 2 Area V October 4
Area II October 3 Area VI October 9
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Area III October 10
Area IV October 5
Area VII October 11
November
State Convention November 15-16, Livingston.
Supervisors should devote some time at their
September District meetings reviewing policy and
formulating resolutions for presentation at their
area meetings. The Directors of your Area will
welcome your writing to them. Be sure to have
your district represented at your area meeting.
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Peace of mind may transform a cottage into a spacious manor
hall; the want of it can make a regal park an imprisoning
nutshell. —joshua loth desman
Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be
picked in strangers' gardens. -douglas JERROLD
TREASURE ACRES is published monthly by the
Montana Association of Soil & Water Conservation
Districts with assistance from Montana State Soil ^
Conservation Committee. The present mailing
list includes all supervisors, county agents, WUCsp
area and state officials of state and federal agencies,
all County School Superintendents, all High School
Principals, all weekly and daily newspapers, all
Chambers of Commerce, Farm Organizations, and
several out-of-state addresses, our Congressmen
and Senators, and State Officials.
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STATE DOCUMENTS
November -December 1962
SEASONS GREETINGS
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Frank Thompson
President, MASWCD
Your Association President Sez: From all
reports the convention In Livingston must have
been a success. We were very sorry not to
have been able to be with you. We very humbly
accept the offices you saw fit to elect us to and
with all of your good help we will strive to make
a better association. Making the best better.
The time of year is here again when we want
to start thinking about where we are going in
the months ahead. Before we go too far with
our plans for next year it may be well to look
back and evaluate just how much we have ac-
complished in the past year. Do we want to
follow the same old rut or make a new trail
and explore for some new ideas ?
Mrs. Frank Thompson
President, Ladies Auxiliary, MASWCD
The Secretary of Agriculture has suggested a
new memorandum of understanding that should
be acted upon by district supervisors some
time this coming year. Under this new pro-
gram supervisors will have increased respon-
sibility that will of necessity demand much
more elaborate and far reaching plans.
Any plan for a New Year would not be complete
without a few goals to work toward. To mention
a few:
1. To devise a program whereby districts will
have proper financing so they can carry out
an efficient district and educational program.
con), next page
2. To carry out a public educational program
which will carry the conservation story to
every man, woman, and child in the state.
3. To support any action taken by other groups
to conserve Montana water for Montana and to
have the 160 acre limitation waived when only
supplemental water is supplied.
Husband: "Well, dear, I've just had my life in-
sured for 550,000!"
Wife: "That's nice. Now I won't have to keep
lulling you to be careful every place you go."
MASWCD Convention a Success.
Supervisors and friends of Districts from all
areas of Montana traveled to Livingston
November 13-15 to attend the 21st Annual
Meeting of their association.
Probably the highlight of the Convention was
the fine talk by Governor Tim Babcock on
the theme "Conservation Builds Recreation, "
The Governor told of recreation being a
$100, 000, 000 business in Montana and of the
opportunities Montana has of expanding on
this, and of efforts of various state agencies
in developing recreation.
As one reporter pointed out 25 years ago when
districts were first being organized the theme
was "Conservation for Survival" and in con-
trast this year's theme was "Conservation
Builds Recreation. " Montana has come a long
way as a result of Soil and Water Conservation
programs.
But, the more than 200 conservationists who
were in Livingston looked back with pride at
their record of conservation in Montana, yet
recognized that their task was far from com-
plete. Farmers and ra ihers are individua-
lists, yet they must reidize that in a modern
era they must adapt of technological change
and advance.
The program, the ) esolutions and the subject
matter presented by speakers, panel groups,
committees and officers emphasized repeatedly
the importance of education and cooperation,
rather than multi-million dollar handouts. They
emphasized the need for Conservation educa-
tional programs at all levels of elementary,
secondary and higher educational systems, as
well as among adults, the imporance of better
understanding between country End city folks,
between various government agencies and in-
dividuals.
The recognition of the importance of recreation
pointed up the greater leisure time, the mobility
of people, the heavy travel as a result of im-
proved highways, the need for camping and road-
side parks, and the necessity to preserve water ^
sheds, forest and park areas, clear streams ^
and our scenic resources, which increasingly
become more and more important as a continuous
source of income.
The delegates and their wives lauded the hospit-
ality of Livingston, the excellent meeting facili-
ties of the Elks temple and the work of the local
committee in making arrangements. The group
included Carl H. Johnson, chairman of the Park
Soil Conservation District board of supervisors,
general chairman; Supervisors Clarene Walton,
William F. D'Ewart, Floyd Peterson and Lee
Cowan; District Conservationist Ken Bolland,
SCS Engineer Ted Neuman, and County Agent
Tom Glennie. The wives of the supervisors
assisted with the arrangements and were in
charge of table decorations.
Fred Martin, publisher of the Park County News,
did an outstanding job of filling in for the banquet
speaker, Alf Larson of Minnesota who did not
show.
Among resolutions passed were to ask the 1963
Legislature for $24,000 for the biennium to
operate local Soil and Water Conservation Dis- '
tricts. This is the first such request. District
committees have always operated on their own
time and expense money. John Schroeder of
Lolo was appointed chairman of the committee
to seek funds.
Another appropriation asked by the association
was for hiring a conservation education super-
visors in the Department of Public Instruction.
This position is now vacant because of lack of
funds .
Some of the other resolutions adopted
Urge congressional representatives in Washing -
ton to give more support to small watershed
projects for the storage of water upstream.
Go on record as being opposed to any minimum
flow regulations unless water needed to maintain
that flow is provided by additional storage fac-
ilities.
Seek Legislation to exempt water development
above Canyon Ferry from the 160 acre limitation
Have stricter supervision of conservation needs
on State Lands.
Seek legislation which will footer good conserva-
tion practical by leasees of ft ate Lands.
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Wm. F. D'Ewart, a member ot the Montana State Soil Conservation Committee, and Gov. Tim Bab-
cock, seated, were on hand as D. E. Roberts, representing Goodyear, presented Gordon Holte,
center, and K. Kaae of the Sheridan Soil Conservation District, the first place Goodyear award in
the state district competition. In the picture at right are Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Criswell of Hysham,
who as presidents of the State Association and Auxiliary presided during the convention sessions.
At right is the Association secretary -treasurer, Dick Setterstrom of Butte.
MASWCD Convention Continued - -
Protest the pollution of streams and watersheds
by brakish water and oil.
Recommend that all oil fields be policed at reg-
I ular entervals to prevent pollution.
Urge that conservation be a required basic sub-
ject to be taught in all colleges and universities
as a prerequisite to any degree given.
Elmer Eklund, Barber
Jerry Kolar, Stanford
Carl Johnson, Shields Rte, Livingston
Leslie Criswell, Hysham
Jack Iman, Victor
Ralph Tower, Poison
Pete Jackson, Norris
Frank Thompson, Wolf Creek
Oscar Hippe has a year to go on his present
term as NACD Councilman from Montana
Look to Extension to Provide Leadership and
suggest programs of conservation education,
and help organize them. County Agents and
Extension Conservation Specialist staffs should
be fully maintained to give maximum assis-
tance to districts in conservation education.
A complete report of the proceedings of the
convention will be mailed to all supervisors,
Conservation agencies, others may receive
copies by writing for them.
Officers elected at the Director's meeting were
Frank Thompson, Wolf Creek, President; Bill
Kesler, Kalispell, Vice President; Dick Setter-
strom, Butte, Secretary; and Gene Coombs,
Billings, Treasurer. Jack Tweedy, Cut Bank,
was elected to the Executive Committee to
serve with Thompson and Kesler. Directors
of the association are:
Gordon Holte, Plenty wood
Oscar Hipe, Froid
Kenneth Edwards, Glendive
Harold Jensen, Baker
Ralph Briggs, Cascade
.lack Tweedv. Cut Rank
Great Falls was chosen as the 1963 Convention
site which will be November 13, 14, 15.
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CONSERVATION CHARLEY
Charley was bellying up by Harry Corry in the
bar in "Duncan's Dungeon." He'd stopped in
for a beer to stabilize his nerves before tying
on the feed bag.
It's quiet in the Dungeon. ^The lights are dim.
The juke box has laryngitis. There isn't a
single bar fly caging drinks. Charley's nerves
are purring contentedly.
He raises his glass and sips the beer. His
eye sights down the length of the glass and
zeros in on another pair of eyes—big, brown
eyes stares back the age old setting for ro-
mance.
Charley can't help smiling out loud. Any other
fellow in this situation would be swapping glances
with a radiant redhead— or a beautiful brunette.
The best Charley can do is tangle eyeballs with
a brown-eyed elk's head hanging on the wall.
Brown Eyes seems sad. Charley can't help
noticing the fly specks on the pupils. And the
sparkle of the glass eyeballs is dulled by a film
of grease and smoke which has accumulated
through the years. The hair on the neck and head
is dusty and unkept. The rack, which grazes the
ceiling, is a relic from a wild, free world far
from the stale air of the Dungeon.
Charley feels sad, too. He tries to visualize
this motheaten wall fixture gliding regally through
the pine -scented air of some far away mountain
fastness. Brown Eyes must have been a proud
and graceful creature in those days.
Chuck is jarred out of his reverie by a rough
belligerent voice, "Whatcha staring at?",
asks. uOHAT<^A"
Beer dribbles down » *
Charley's chin as his s
mouth gapes open.
Is that taxidermist's
puppet talking to him ?
"Yeah. I'm talking to you. " This time there's
no mistake about it. The head on the wall is
speaking.
"I was just wondering how a feller like you can
hang around a place like this," Charley stammers.
"Must be pretty dead around here with no cows
to chase."
"I can think of things I'd rather do than look at
bleary -eyed beer kegs like you all day," the
head admits. "But from where I hang it doesn't
look like I've got much choice. " f
He pauses and curls his lip to chase a pestiferous
fly away.
"Course, things were pretty tough out there at
times, too, " he continues. "Spring, summer
and fall were great. We had plenty to eat, the
sun was warm and the woods were full of friendly
girls." He drools a little over the memory.
"Winter was murder, though." He shudders at
the thought. "The snow was deep, our winter
range was small and the winds were cold. There
wasn't enough food for all of us. We'd get weaker
and weaker. We'd crowd together and die. When
Spring came the ground was littered with the
dead. It was horrible to see all the youngsters
who never had a chance. "
He chokes up for a minute and can't go on.
When he regains control of his voice he contin-
ues. "A hunter's bullet can sometimes be
merciful. The one that felled me spared me
the agonies of another bleak and hungry winter.
Many of the deer and elk and antelope you see
sprawled out on cars and pickups these days
are pretty lucky, too. They're not going to slowly
and painfully starve to death. "
"Our range is just like a cattle range. It can be
overgrazed. Too many critters eat for too long
on an area and the grub runs out. Old Mom
Nature is a tough nut in some ways. She gets
rid of surplus animals one way or another. If
the winter, doesn't get them she'll get rid of them
with disease, predators or starvation.
He sneezes as he gets a snoot full of second-hand
cigarette smoke.
"Our range has to be managed just like cattle and
sheep range, " he says. "Much as I hate to ad-
mit it wildlife is just another crop from the land.
We're harvested each year by one means or another.
There's some satisfaction in ending up on some-
one's table rather than as coyote bait out in the
forest.
"Yeah, this is kind of a lonely place to spend the
rest of my days but it beats being a pile of bones
out there. " And he bobs his head towards the
distant mountains.
Charley suddenly gulps his beer and heads for the
door. When a stuffed elk head starts talking to
a feller — and making good sense — it's time to
vamoose. Next thing you know it'll turn pink and
come down to prance on the bar.
They must be packing a lot of dynamite In beer
these days.
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SWCD OFFICERS - EXTENSION MEET
Several weeks ago Leslie Criswell, President of
^\S\VCD, Carl Johnson, MAWSCD Education
■ommittee Chairman, Frank Thompson and O.
M. Ueland met with Extension Director Torleif
Aasheim, Program Leader Don Luebbe, and
County Agent Supervisors Bob Rassmussen, Rex
Campbell, and Art Jacobs to discuss ways dis-
tricts can better use extension and vice versa.
It was explained that with the abolishing of the
position of Extension Conservationist, those duties
were absorbed by the Program Leader for Agri-
cultural Production and Conservation Don Luebbe,
and the various specialists. However it was point-
ed out Don has been on leave for a year, that a
Range Management Specialist Karl Parker is on
leave, that Don Ryerson was serving only one
half time as Range Specialist, that no Irrigation
(Water Management) Specialist was now employed,
and that these men were very badly needed. These
positions were cut down largely as a result of the
austerity program of the last legislature.
On the County Agent level it was brought out that
districts are using Agents only as secretaries
and very little else. There was some disagree-
ment as to initiative County Agents should take
as opposed to the initiative displayed by super-
visors. Weaknesses were brought out in plan-
ning and participation of agents and supervisors
n planning.
The following points were advanced as being
items that would benefit:
1. Planning — Inasmuch as agents are making
their plans for the coming year in October , the
Conservation parts of these plans could be sub-
mitted to the Board of Supervisors for review
and approval and adopted as part of the District
Work Program.
2. Conservation Specialists - that districts make
their wishes known to proper authorities, legis-
lature, and governor in order to provide the nec-
essary funds for specialists in range management,
water management, soils, agronomy, forestry,
weeds, etc.
3. Provide extension specialists and supervisors
with meeting dates and places and extend standing
invitation to attend meetings whenever they are in
the area. Provide County Agent Supervisors with
minutes and reports.
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4. Agents attend meetings, aid in conduct of,
give evaluations.
5. Agents make regular reports to district super-
visors of their conservation activities.
6. Give ideas, observations, recommendations.
7. Take leadership in carrying out tours, educa-
tional efforts, special meetings.
8. Emphasize management.
9. Assist with news articles conservation
features.
10. Assist with leadership Workshops.
To be positive is to be mistaken .it
the top of your voice.
STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE AND
STATE ASC COMMITTEE MEET
Montana's State Soil Conservation Committee had
as its guests at its November meeting in Living-
ston all the members of the State Agricultural
and Stabilization Committee, USDA. The Con-
servation programs of Districts and ACP were
discussed. Good working relationships were
reported in most counties. Areas of further co-
ordination were expressed in the need for ASC
reporting to or representation at District Meetings
and the need for further emphasis of appropriate
agreements as supplemental memorandums of
understanding could provide, to be given greater
attention by each agency. It was agreed to have
more exchange of information between the two
agencies to include ASC County Committee and
District Supervisors on each others mailing list.
Inasmuch as cost sharing for stubble mulch will
not be offered this year, consideration was given
to use of these funds for greater emphasis on other
Conservation practices.
The need to get greater control of Nosious and
some other weeds was stressed as a growing con-
servation problem. Also the need for range man-
agement practices, especially prevention of over-
grazing. Efforts would be made to encourage use
oT some available money to correct these situa-
tions.
ASC Committee members attending were Bob
McKenna, Chairman, Wiola Herak, Charlo,
Arthur Anderson, Sioux Pass, Lee Schumacher,
Malta, and George Johnson, Cut Bank. Also
Paul Ringling, Executive Director, and Clarence
Bruce of the state office.
Fred Sanborn, Soil Conservation Committee Chair-
man, expressed appreciation to the ASC people for
their fine cooperation and the Committee's desires
to meet together once every year.
Other business taken care of was to approve ap-
plications and set hearings for change of district
boundaries in Yellowstone and Big Horn for Dec-
ember 13, and Missoula and Bitterroot for Dec-
ember 19. Applications for additions to North
Custer were submitted and a hearing set for Dec-
ember 11 at Miles City, (continued next page.)
A Watershed Application from Upper Musselshell
district requesting planning for Flood Control
primarily for town of Harlowton was approved.
An application for Watershed development in
Wvoming with waters originating in Carbon County
Montana was referred to the State Engineer for
clearance under the Montana-Wyoming compact.
LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS
Leadership Workshops for SWCD Supervisors,
ASC Committeemen, Agency People, and others
who may be interested are scheduled for half of
Montana's districts as follows:
January 8 Granite, Deer Lodge Valley,
North Powell at Drummond
January 10 Bitterroot, Missoula, Mineral
at Missoula
January 30 Broadwater, Lewis & Clark at
Helena
February 12 Toole & Liberty at Shelby
February 13 Hill, Big Sandy, Chouteau at
Big Sandy
February 14 Judith Basin & Fergus at
Lewistown
February 19 McCone, Richland, Garfield at
Circle
February 21 Dawson, Wibaux, Prairie County
Grazing District at Glendive
February 28 Yellowstone, Big Horn at
Billings
March 1 Stillwater & Carbon at Bridger
March 5 Roosevelt & Valley at Glasgow
The workshops will be conducted from 9:30 A.M.
to 4:00 P.M. The morning sessions will deal
with Leadership and the afternoon sessions will
be on District Planning & Administration.
County Agent Supervisors, County Agents, Area
and Work Unit Conservationists, and O. M. Ueland
of the State Soil Conservation Committee will
instruct.
Supervisors in adjoining districts who couldn't
attend last year's sessions are urged to attend
these meetings.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
Lolo,
John Schroeder has been appointed MSWCD Leg-
islative Committee Chairman by President Frank
Thompson. The two spent a busy day in Helena *
recently meeting various people in regard to (
carrying out resolutions of the recent convention.
Arrangements were made with the Attorney Gen-
eral's office to draw up bills to present to the leg-
islature in regard to an appropriation of $24,000
for District Operations, and to amend the law
requiring seeding of disturbed right-of-ways to
include cable lines, gas and oil lines, etc.
Harriet Miller expressed her desires of the im>-
portance of a Conservation Education Supervisor
in her department, and Miss Miller was assured
that the MSWCD would support all efforts to get
a Supervisor. Others visited were Mons Teigen,
State Land Commissioner, Water Board Engineer
George Sahinen, State Engineer Fred Buck, and
Budget Director Nelson.
?he Indian appeared before
the justice, asking a divorce.
Asked to give his reasons,
he said:
"When I plant corn, I get
corn. When I plant spinach, I
get spinach. When I plant bar-
ley, I get barley. But when I
plant an Indian, and get a
Chinaman, I want a divorce."
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"Female voice9 What female voice, dear0"
We are sorry to learn of the passing of Edwin
Larson, Brockton, Montana supervisor of the
Culbertson-Bainville Soil and Water Conserva
lion I )i .strict.
WHAT
WHO
HOW
I WHEN
WHERE
WHY
DISTRICT PROGRAM — ANNUAL WORK PLAN
The district program is a long range program stating the purpose of the district,
the general condition of resources, present farming and ranching conditions,
conservation problems and how to meet them. Soil and Water Conservation
being basic it includes planning in the following;
Soil Improvement & Management
Range Management
Water Management
Woodland Management-Forestry
Irrigation
Field Crops -Cropland
Recreation
Fish & Game
Soil Erosion Prevention
Watershed Programs
Underground Water
Great Plains Programs
Agricultural Conservation Programs
Public Lands Programs
Rural-Urban Planning
Highway Construction
Mining
Industrial Development
Pollution Control of Water & Air
Weed Control
Fire Control
Insect Control
The Annual Work Plan is a GUIDE showing What, Who, When, Where, How, of
Conservation Problems that will be done this year,,
Supervisors with assistance of any group or agency are responsible for recognizing
and developing a Conservation Program. Supervisors should ask for recommenda-
tions and cooperation from all groups and agencies and all groups and agencies
should voluntarily or otherwise make their proposals known to supervisors for the
development of a comprehensive integrated single district program. Annual work
plans should be worked out the same way.
A district program is made up when the districts is first organized. Revisions
are made as conditions change, new research is developed, and other areas be-
come connected with Soil and Water Conservation. Districts in Montana are being
asked to revise their old programs so as to reflect more of the above areas of
Conservation. This should be done by July 1, 1963. An Annual Work Plan should
be made up on a yearly basis, usually in December prior to the new calendar year.
Observations are made all the time, so that new problems, means, etc. , can be
noted and included in the next plan.
Programs and Plans are drawn up by individuals and brought together at the Dis-
trict Meeting place for acceptance, editing, and further writing up by a person
or persons designated to do so. Plans and Programs are given to everybody con-
cerned, and publicized.
A district program is a basis for letting the Public know what the problems are,
what the benefits are, what is to be done and how, and why they should be con-
cerned. The district program is a basis for negotiating Basic, Supplemental,
and other appropriate agreements with departments, agencies, and groups, or
businesses. District programs and Annual Work Plans show what funds are
needed and why, who benefits, what the results will be. Districts are organized
under State Law to carry out a program of protecting its Soil and Water Resources!
CONSERVATION IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, A SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
DISTRICT IS YOUR DISTRICT, COOPERATE WITH IT.
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At the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration, a woman applicant
tilling; out a job questionnaire got
along fine until she came to the
section "Veterans preference."
After thinking it over she wrote,
"Sailors."
Who's Smarter?
A number of Bobby's playmates
were noisily calling him to come
out and play. Presently Bobby
appeared at the door and said, "I
can't come out just now, I'm tak-
ing my nap."
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Grassroots participation has been the key to the amazing successes credited to the
Montana Soil Conservation Districts and the state leaders and the individual farmers
would credit this success to the efforts of the elected farmer supervisors. At the
Montana convention in November, special awards were presented to four 20-year
supervisors, 21 who served 15 years and 42 ten-year members.
Pictured above are Elmer Eklund, left, and Henry Hoye, Froid, (fifth from left, and to
the left of Gov. T. Babcock), 20-year supervisors. (Ken Edwards, second from left,
accepted the award for Henry R . Reinemer, McCone, and Charles Smith, third from
left for Stanley Wilson of Wibaux, the other 20-year supervisors who were not present).
The three at the right of the picture are, 1. to r. , State Committee Secretary O. M.
Ueland, Butte; Supervisor Clarence Walton, Wilsall, and A. G. Slattery, Big Horn.
The 21 recipients receiving the 15-year awards were Leo J. Carmody, Jefferson
Valley; Irvin Cox, Little Beaver, Leslie Criswell, Treasure; Jacob Bieber, McCone;
Paul Brenner and John G. Buttelman, Three Rivers; Joe Debrowski, Wibaux; Herman
Friede, Blaine; Carl Hunter, Richland; Oscar Hippe, Froid; John Meccage, Little
Beaver; Gordon McGowan, Chouteau; Clarence Popham, Bitterroot; Clyde Rader,
Big Horn; Walter L. Sales, Three Rivers; John Schroeder, Missoula; J. M. Sholtus,
Valley; Charles Stahl, and Ernest Wills, Missoula; Ralph Tower, Lake; Edgar
Wetzeteon, Bitterroot and Lister Williams, Box Elder.
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Water Conservation Districts
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