The Union County Conservation Board wrote a letter to Rep. Don Avenson in 1986 disagreeing with his comments at the farm bureau state convention of the Iowa Farm Bureau that the "cost - share program isn' t used much anymore".
This special edition of the Malvern Leader highlights the history and accomplishments of the Mills County Soil and Water Conservation District from 1941-1991.
The Conmissioners sponsored a high school course in conservation where students learned how to lay out contour base lines, a series of field experiments on grains and grasses was conducted and a terrace building contest which prompted many farmers to…
This annual highlights the activities and accomplishments during 1947 of the Mills County Soil Conservation District.,
This was a year of disastrous floods followed by prolonged drought. June brought three torrential rains in
an eighteen day…
A review of the year's work shows a few innovations in running a district have been brought about. The pictorial nature of this report is a direct result of the most outstanding of these innovations; namely, the taking of aerial photographs by Ray W…
Highlights of this annual report include the formation of the Mule Creek Watershed Association at a meeting on October 6, 1949 which was organized to formulate a plan to control floods in the river valleys. An aerial photography program resulted in …
