Melvin Brown, a mapping specialist with the Soil conservation service, conducted the Des Moines county standard soil survey over four years beginning in 1975. There were 263,000 acres to survey and Melvin Brown was in charge of it. He is holding up…
Conservationist Howard Bright is the third man from the left walking. The other men are unidentified. Behind them are people seated probably in a school building
District conservationist Howard Bright talks to U.S. Soil Conservation Chief, Norm Berg who came to Des Moines County to hear about no-till farming procedures that were being used to fight soil erosion.
Conservationist Howard Bright on the left talks to an unidentified man in a gym. Howard Bright served as the district conservationist for Des Moines County from 1976-1986.
