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1978 Two men sit at a table in a field

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.

Students on field trip by bus

Des Moines County high school students stand near a table by a school bus waiting to sign in for a field trip

Tall grass

These photos show various fields of tall grass in fields

Three men sit at table at meeting

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…

Three men stand in back of a van parked by a rural road

The three men in this photo are unidentified.

Soil survey men

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.

Three men pose for photo

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.…

Three men study aerial photos

These three unidentified men are outside in a field looking at aerial photos

A tractor sits in front of Louisa-Des Moines County drainage ditch number 4

This tractor sits in some water during the time flood waters were being pumped out of the station into the river.

Tractors sit in fields near flooded areas

Thses tractors sit in a field beside flooded areas

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