This is a special issue of the Glenwood Opinion-Tribune Newspaper featuring articles on soil and water conservation in Mills County, Iowa. The articles were written in celebration of Soil and Water Conservation Week in Iowa, June 20-27, 1965
Don Williams, Chief of Soil Conservation Service, was in Mills County in 1959 to give a presentation at the invitation of the Glenwood Chamber of Commerce.
During his stay. he looked over Pony Creek Watershed and was well-pleased with the work…
This booklet is a history and explanation of the Mule Creek watershed program in Mills County, Iowa that was developed in 1949 for the purpose of controlling erosion and flooding on farmland using a watershed protection program.
The Mule Creek Watershed was started in 1949 for flood prevention and for maintenance of the stabilizing and sediment control structures located on private lands. Gully erosion and/or valley trenching was common and was a serious problem in the…
The Mills County Flood Control Committee has called a meeting to petition that the Missouri Valley Flood Control Report be submitted to Congress at once. In recent years, farmers had suffered heavy agricultural losses from floods that had eroded…
This Special Edition was made up of items carried from month to month in recent issues and which were selected
by the Mills County Soil Conservation District Commissioners because of their special value to the readers of this publication.
On September 16, 1948 about 100 men composed of farmers, soil conservation district commissioners, and newspapermen met at Atlantic, Iowa and formed an organization to be known as the Nishna Valley Flood Control association. This brochure explains…
