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.
Harold Linder is the second man from the left and the man on the right is Howard Bright Harold served as the secretary of the Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District during the 1970's and Howard Bright served as districtl…
Sid Mais is the man on the right sitting at a table in a field with another unidentified man. Sid did training as a soil conervationist in 1978 under soil conservationist Howard Bright.
