This directory for Des Moines County, Iowa includes township maps locating rural residents, alphabetical locator of each rural resident giving information of owner or renter, name, rural route number, ', and key to location on township map. Maillngs…
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.
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
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.
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…