This is a congratulatory letter from William H. Greiner, Director of the Iowa Soil Conservation Commission to Henry Dockendorf, Chairman of the Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District on the celebration of the district's 25th…
The Commissioners told a legislative committee that a comprehensive land use policy is needed especially now that soil conservation districts have the responsibility of urban lands as well as rural lands. All lands are now a concern. The report also…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.