This is a listing of important national and international events of each day in 1946. It is the same year that the Plymouth County Soil and Water Conservation District was organized.
This was the first soil conservation meeting held in February 1946. It was the beginning of the Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District. In the photo are Commissioners John Blaul, Edwin Cling. and Noah Schrock.
Also pictured are…
Frank H. Mendell, State Conservationist, writes to Noah Schrock, Chairman of the Des Moines County Soil Conservation District, expressing his interest in the 1946 Annual Report of the District, the first one.
In this first annual report, there is information about the formation of the Des Moines County Soil Conservation. The commissioners set up a plan of action and set up for the district plans and objectives. Better use of land and the conservation of…
These are the results of the elections for Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation Districts Commissioners from the 1940's to the 1990's. There is also a list of the Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Iowa and when they were chartered.
This is an aerial photo showing terraces built during a soil conservation demonstration by the Knoxville Work Group in Marion County.. Clyde Milner is the owner of the farm shown. He is from Pleasantville, Iowa
This aerial photo shows terraces built during the soil conservation demonstration by the Knoxville Work Group in Marion County, Iowa. Clyde Milner is the owner from Pleasantville, Iowa.
