U.S. Soil Conservation Chief and Des Moines County native Norman Berg poses with two other men during a visit to Iowa in April 1980.. He is the third man from the left. In 1979, President Carter appointed Berg chief of the Soil Conservation Service.…
Mel Brown and Bennie Clarks, who worked on the Des Moines county soil survey during the 1970's are pictured in these photos with an unidentified man. Mel Brown is holding the survey instrument and Bennie is the black man.