(DIRECTOR'S MEETING continued) 



increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their 

 Districts in achieving maximum conservation on 

 the land and greater understanding of conservation 

 by the public. The Vice-president would be 

 responsible for developing the program for the 

 Directors to take to the Districts. 



The Directors voted approval of a proposed in- 

 creased budget for the State Committee and 

 approval of a $20,000 supplemental amount for 

 state assistance in planning watershed projects. 



Ralph Briggs reported on the activity of the Northern 

 Great Plains Area Research Committee. Of interest 

 here was a statement that in 1965 the State ASC 

 Committee may allocate 107o of ACP funds for 

 experimental watershed research which would be 

 $400, 000 for Montana. 



Oscar Hippe reported on the Great Plains program 

 and that he is trying to arrange a tour for Secretary 

 Freeman or Baker to visit Great Plains farmers. 



Art Christensen report on watershed and public 

 lands, that he and Frank Thompson and John 

 Schroeder had met with Secretary Udall on 

 June 12 when the secretary was in Montana to 

 discuss the 160 acre limitation problem. The 

 Secretary appeared to see the problem and 

 promised action if the facts were in order. 

 Christensen reported on Bureau of Land Manage- 

 ment conservation program in Beaverhead 

 County, and was high in praise of the reseeding and 

 sagebrush eradication practices. However, the 

 other higher cost practices as some dams that 

 were build seemed out of order. 



Carl Johnson of the Education Committee 

 recommended more work with grade school 

 children is needed and that a full time co- 

 ordinator for conservation in department of 

 public instruction is needed. The Wildlife 

 Federation of Montana has offered its support. 



Setterstrom got approval to build a fair display 

 showing a badly eroded watershed and a well 

 protected watershed with the caption, "Which 

 watershed will contribute to floods?" 



Herschell Hard reporting on SCS activities 

 stated that SCS has no disaster funds to employ 

 additional technical help for the nine disaster 

 counties. SCS represents the Agriculture 

 department on river basin investigations. Hurd 

 urged each District to get at least one employee 

 of their own. 



About poor programs on TV 

 I'll neither gripe nor scoff. 

 So long as there is left to me 

 The right to turn them off. 



John Schroeder requested priority of various 

 proposed legislative matters which are as follows; 

 1) support of an increased State Committee budget 

 which includes $20, 000 supplemental appropria- 

 tion for the Planning Party; 2) support of the 

 Conservancy District Law; 3) support of Con - 

 servation Supervisor in DPI; 4) other considerations 

 were an agronomist in the Highway Department 

 amending the district law to permit larger levies 

 for small counties, and support of the proposed 

 trespass law by Fish and Game. This proposed 

 law would make it illegal for any vehicle to 

 travel on any priv ate land where there is no road 

 without written permission. 



Oscar Hippe reported on various activites of 

 the National Association of which he is a national 

 vice-president. He says it is more difficult to 

 get money for conservation from Congress each 

 year and that a strong national is essential 

 to give proper support to conservation legislation 

 at the national level. He reported on dues and the 

 unpaid districts. 



SSCC MEETING 



The State Soil Conservation Committee met in 

 Lewistown preceding the MASWCD meeting. 



Executive Secretary Ueland in his report stated 

 that 30 districts have completed revision of their 

 long range programs, and no doubt the spring 

 work has deverted the attention of the others. 

 All districts but three were in some phase of 

 revision . 



Twenty -six Memorandums of Agreements with 

 USDI have been completed. Ther is opportunity for 

 at least a dozen more to be made. Coordination 

 and cooperation in developing con servation pro- 

 grams is the main emphasis here. The BLM 

 has offered a form for negotiating supplemental 

 memorandums of understanding. Other bureaus 

 of USDI have none as yet' as is known. 



Torlief Aasehim reported on the findings of the 

 State Disaster Committee on the recent flood in 

 nine counties of Montana of over $12 million 

 loss, and action being taken to repair damages. 



Joe Aslenson reported that experiment station 

 is asking for a full time range man for its staff. 

 Experiment station has assigned a contract with 

 the Highway Department to con duct a five year 

 study of Highway Right-of-way seeding. The 

 committee recommended that follow up with 

 the Highway people be made on grass seeding 

 and weed control. (This has been done and the 

 State Highway Department is looking for applica- 

 tions to employ an Agronomist to supervise 

 this program. ) 



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