Phillips Watershed <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Watersheds">Watersheds</a> Airview of Phillips Watershed. Road structure on N-S Road at Station 134 +29 main gully in Mapleton, Iowa in Monona County Proctor, R - Photographer, U.S. Soil Conservation Service Photo State Library of Iowa 1956-08-20 P;lymouth County Soil and Water Conservation District This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Stevens, Jolene - Constributing Writer Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Le Mars, Iowa, page 8 Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Le Mars, Iowa State Library of Iowa 2011-03-03 This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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Stevens, Jolene - Contributing writer LeMars Daily Sentinel, Thursday , Jul 7, 2011 • page 8 Le Mars Daily Sentinel 2011-07-07 Plymouth County Soil and Water Conservation District This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). h<a title="In Copyright" href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">ttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/unknown</a> pdf document U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service display <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Fairs">Fairs</a> This display shows two models of a 100 acre farm. The first one shows accelerated soil erosion as the result of unsatisfactory farming methods. The second model shows the same farm ten years later after the adoption of of a coordinated erosion control program Depicting the same farm ten years later after adoption of the coordinated erosion control program recommended y the Soil Conservation Service. Crops are rotated, slopes are terraced, cultivation is on the contour, gullies are checked with dams and trees and the whole farm is used to produce the most and at the same time save and build the soil. Each practice used is important in the whole program and must be varied according to the individual farm U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service State Library of Iowa Plymouth County Soil and Water Conservation District This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). <a title="In Copyright" href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/unknown</a> jpg still image