This agrreement states that transportation equipment, engineering instruments and other equipment of the Soil Conservation Service used by its staff members assisting the District may also be used intermittently by District employees,
This program attempts to set forth soil conservation and land use problems of Des Mounes County and to state what the district plans to achieve. The program will serve as a basis of cooperation between the landowners as well as other cooperating…
The District helped sponsor four rural school teachers to the Springbrook Conservation School during the summer. A new Supplemental Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the District Commissioners.Five Des Moines County4-H Club boys won an…
A substantial increase has been shown in 1957 in the installation of gully control structures. waterway shaping and seeding. These are some of the permanent type
Conservation practices that the Agriculture Conservation Program is assisting the…
Accomplishments for the year included 31 acres of waterway development, 32 erosion control structures, 29 ponds, ,12,2 miles of standard terraces, and 2,112 feet diversion terraces as well as other activities and accomplishments..
The number of land improvement and erosion control practices for 1960 and to date are listed as well as an explanation of activities that the District engaged in.
The local District sponsored and was featured in the August-September issue of the Iowa Soil and Water Magazine.. Accomplishments and activities for 1961 are listed.
Assistance with tile drainage was a major priority with farmers this year. The wet spring of 1960 and the rainy fall of 1961 created many wet areas that needed to be drained. The personnel of the Soil Conservation Service were glad to assist and…
This 18th Annual Report reminds farmers that assistance the the Soil Conservation Service is available. Activites, accomplishments, and a calendar of events for 1963 are presented in this report.
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…
