Jim Hodges is on the left wearing a baseball hat. Next is
Frank Cling, a retired Mediapolis businessman and then Verner Amenell, a rural Mediapolis farmer. These men are relaxing in a shed after a no-till tour waiting for a pig roast dinner
Oren Champ was a conservation technician who started working for Des Moines County in 1970 and continued in that position until the late 1970s. He is the man with curly hair and glasses wearing a white shirt. In the first photo, he is seated next to…
Sid Mais sits on an old piece of farm machinery that serves as an erosion barrier. Sid did training as a soil conervationist in 1978 under soil conservationist Howard Bright.
Theresa Beckman of rural Sperry has begun her program of pasture restoration using native grasses like big bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass and switch grass
