The Iowa Department of Agriculture presented a check for $15,607.50 to the Iowa County Soil and Water Conservation District for the Lake Geode Watershed Project
The Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District works in many ways to cooperate with agencies interested in environmental development. The county extension service is one such agency. Developing human resources is the big job of…
Administrator D.A. Williams encourages Soil Conservation Service staff to encourage and aid farmers and ranchers to plan and apply soil and water conservation measures, but to do for them only those things that need to be done in the public…
This memorandum encourages Conservation Service personnel to develop good working relationships with the county soil conservation districts because the success of the Soil Conservation movement depends upon the exercising of local responsibility and…
These newspaper articles celebrate the 50th anniversary of soil conservation in Des Moines County, Iowa. In the photograph, Mike Lewitke of the Natural Resources Conservation Service stands in front of several barriers along U.S. 61 south of…
The author points out that urban soil conservation is just as important as agricultural conservation and has not been addressed until recently. Soil erosion that results in large amounts of soil sliding into the Mississippi River and its…
These are the results of the elections for Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation Districts Commissioners from the 1940's to the 1990's. There is also a list of the Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Iowa and when they were chartered.
