Melvin Brown, a mapping specialist with the Soil conservation service, conducted the Des Moines county standard soil survey over four years beginning in 1975. There were 263,000 acres to survey and Melvin Brown was in charge of it. He is holding up…
Bennie Clarks, a soil mapping specialist worked with Melvin Brown in the Soil Conservation service to conduct the Des Moines county standard soil survey during the mid 1970's.
Ralph E. Dewey, District Conservationist writes an editorial looking back across the thirty years of the District. Resource Conservation and Development became a reality December 18, 1975, in Southeast Iowa, when Congressman Ed Mezvinsky announced…
Accomplishments and challenges of the district are outlined in this report. The District joined with Lee, Henry, and Louisa and counties to apply for an RC&D Resource Conservation and Development project named the Geode Wonderland Project.
This report talks about new agreements with other local agencies for the purpose of planning cooperative action in erosion control. .Early in the year Lee, Louisa and Henry Districts joined with the Des Moines County Soil Conservation District in a…
A letter from Ralph E. Dewey, District Conservationist, points out that the attached Iowa highway map for Des Moines County shows floodplain areas that would be a flooding problem without levees.
