"DISTRICT OUTLOOK" 



A report of the special committee on District Outlook has been mailed to all SWCD Supervisors, 

 This is an enlightening and challenging report. It serves as good background and is timely to 

 districts in Montana, inasmuch as it can serve to recommend to the Legislative Council proposed 

 legislation for Conservation Districts In Montana. 



The Committee has concluded that if districts are to grow and make their most effective contri- 

 bution to our society in the future, they must expand their programs to embrace new phases of 

 conservation and resource development. 



If our analysis of potential resource requirements and the prospective limitations of districts 

 in meeting them is correct, there exists in America a need for organized legal bodies to: 



1. Represent all the people and all community interests in ascertaining conservation 

 needs and responding to their desires. 



2. Develop conservation and resource development programs for all of the people. 



3. Involve all the people through appropriate representation in the decision-making 

 process relating to natural resource conservation and development. 



4. Accept and carry out responsibilities ^ including the expenditures of local ^ state ^ 

 and federal financial allocations on behalf of all the people, in connection with 

 resource programs and projects. 



Bill Kesler, Pete Jackson, 0. M. Ueland, and A. B. Linford recently attended a seminar In 

 Kansas City^on District Outlook. Consideration of valuable guidelines for strengthening districtsi 

 were reviewed. 



Many districts in Montana are to be congratulated for taking steps on the above for strength- 

 ening their districts, such as appointing associate members from outside agriculture, joining 

 their Chambers of Commerce, extending relations with other Conservation agencies through Memo- 

 randums of Understanding, and revising and updating their long-range programs and getting key 

 people to participate in their programs, 



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