DISTRICT DOINGS 



FLATHEAD SWCD - Board Endorsement was given for 

 the watershed application for a feasibifity 

 study of Cedar Creek drainage flood control pro- 

 ject for the city of Columbia Falls. 



GALLATINL VALLEY SWCD - Harold Klump, representa- 

 tive of the City-County Planning Board, attended 

 the supervisors meeting to discuss the possibili 

 ties of a block-type standard soil survey 

 around the City of Bozeman. The City-County 

 Planning Board are updating their plan for city 

 expansion at present. It was thought that since 

 a standard soil survey will eventually cover 

 Gallatin County, that priority should be given 

 to about a 5 mile radius surrounding Bozeman. 



DANIELS COUNTY SWCD - Jack Sprague was asked to 

 contact the Daniels County Leader about running 

 the "Conservation Charley" column. This would 

 inform the public of different types of conser- 

 vation practices. 



A motion was made by Bill Kegel to pay $20.00 

 to each of the nine teachers registered for Lee 

 Rovig's conservation education course. Motion 

 carried. 



MILE HIGH SWCD - Phil Judd and Francis McGan 

 have been appointed to the Board of Supervisors 

 as non-voting urban representatives. It is 

 hoped that this will bring about closer and 

 be+ter relationships between urban and rural 

 peoples. 



A meeting was held on February 9 in regard to 

 the Brown's Gulch Watershed Project for those 

 people interested to get this project moving 

 again. 



BROADWATER SWCD - Lee Hart discussed the conser- 

 vation talks to be held in connection with his 

 office. They are a series of talks conducted 

 by specialists. Each session will be about two 

 hours and Lee urges everyone to try and attend 

 some of these talks. 



BEAVERHEAD SWCD - Roy Forrester reported on the 

 educational material which has been distributed 

 to the County Superintendent of Schools. He 

 also indicated that he will take additional mat- 

 erial to representatives of the District 10 for 

 their opinion on it's educational value. Roy 

 was authorized to spend up to $50.00 to obtain 

 this material at his discretion on the motion by 

 Orville Sparrow, seconded by Emmett Blomquist. 



CARBON COUNTY SWCD - J . D. Dykstra reported on 

 the importance of improving the public image of 

 Soil & Water Conservation Districts and their 

 functioaa* 



Hollywood has been described as the 

 town where halX the people are waiting 

 to be disco'Vered— and the othef half 

 are afraid they will be. 



VALLEY COUNTY SWCD - The appi ication for the 



Willow Creek Project north of Hinsdale was read 

 and plans made to meet with the Water Board on 

 January 25 to sign the application. 



The Board approved the technicians starting a 

 series of articles for the local paper. 



ROSEBUD COUNTY SWCD - The Conservation Resource 



Needs Inventory was briefly discussed and It wa 

 requested to have four copies run off so other 

 agencies would have the inventory as a referenc 

 record. 



EASTERN SANDERS COUNTY SWCD - A short discussio 

 was held concerning the consolidation of the 

 Hot Springs and Thompson Falls offices. The 

 hearing will be held at 1:00 P. M. tomorrow « 

 (February 3) at the courtroom in Thompson Falls 

 A. B. Linford, Doug Smith, and George Lackman 

 will probably be on hand. 



After reading letters sent and received con-i 

 cerning getting a conservation coordinator ?n 

 Harriett Miller's office, the board passed a 

 motion to allocate $5.00 for that purpose and 

 participate In the project with Green Mountain 

 SWCD. Racicot will draw up the letters. It 

 is possible that the Grange might back this ide< 

 too, once it Is started. 



RUBY VALLEY SWCD - Discussion was held on the 

 possibility of changing district boundaries to 

 correspond with school district boundaries for 

 possible tax purposes and monies to go to the 

 district. 



Harold Smith read his workload analysis for 

 the year which definitely showed a shortage of 

 help for his office. 



BIG HORN COUNTY SWCD - A. G. Slattery, Yugo 

 Nayematsu, and Wayne Nipple will prepare the 

 Annual Report. This report will be a 20 year 

 progress report. 



LINCOLN SWCD - Reports from each agency assistfr 

 the District are to be included in the District 

 Annual Report for 1965. 



PHILLIPS SWCD - Conservation Charley articles 

 were read and di cussed for possible use by 

 Phi I I ips News. 



Monthly items of district news will be taken 

 to newspaper by supervisors Friday or Monday 

 following regular meetings. 



MCCONE SWCD - Attendance at the Crop Production 

 School at Vida was discussed. At least two 

 supervisors plan to attend. 



Ciiief of Police: "Got away, did lie? Were all the exits 



guarded?" 



Rookie Policeman : "Yes Sir, but we think he must have 



left by one of the entrances. " 



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