MADISON SWCD Secretary read letter from the 

 Bureau of Land Management inquiring about 

 noxious weed problem on BLM lands. 



CARBON COUNTY SWCD reports that WUC 

 Uhlrich and a crew of scouts from Bridger and 

 Forest Service personnel and Chairman Kirby 

 planted 2,000 trees in the burn area above Red 

 Lodge on June 27. - 45 people from nine Soil 

 and Water Conservation Districts including three 

 from Wyoming toured the Plant Materials Center 

 at Brider. The Carbon SWCD served lunch to 

 the group and all supervisors that attended ex- 

 pressed their thanks to the Carbon district for 

 sponsoring the tQur. 



WONDER OF WATER: 



The State Board purchased five thousand copies 

 of the "Wonder of Water", a colored information 

 booklet. We have placed copies of this booklet 

 in waiting rooms of doctors in Oklahoma City 

 and Tulsa. The response from these booklets 

 has been terrific. Many doctors have written 

 in for additional copies. We also are placing 

 them in barber shops. We think we are reaching 

 a great number of people with this conservation 

 message. 



from Oklahoma Soil Conservation NEWS 



FLOODS & SNL\LL DAMS 



1964 will go down in Montana's history as the year 

 of the big flood. After looking at some of the 

 damage, one begins to wonder if we are making 

 any headway or slipping backward in our soil and 

 water conservation. It seems modern man lives 

 too far away from nature, or feels that it can't 

 happen to him when all along as far as Mother 

 Nature is concerned, he is only a small rolling 

 stone. 



Much IS being written and said following the 

 flodding of the Sun, Teton, Marias, and Flathead 

 Rivers. Some agree, others don't as to the 

 best way to control these damaging floods. If the 

 Fort Peck Reservoir can absorb a flood of this 

 magnitude without filling, certainly there are 

 ways of stopping these floods on the smaller 

 tributaries. This takes us right back home to the 

 frog pond back of the barn — the one we should 

 have built; a flood control program that fits 

 the individual farm or ranch where the damage 

 begins. Little rain drops make mighty rivers. 

 — from Judith Basin SWCD Newsletter 



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