DISTRICT DOINGS 

 as appears in the minutes 



M^LE HIGH SVVCD sponsored for school teachers 

 of Silver Bow County a CONSERVATION WORK- 

 SHOP at which 28 teachers participated. Three 

 phases of conservation were discussed. Charles 

 Krall, Area Conservationist for SCS discussed 

 the story of conservation. Bob Mathison, USES, 

 discussed the clear cutting of timber as a forest 

 management principle. Roger Fliger, Montana 

 Fish & Game, spoke on fish and woldlife manage- 

 ment. AU speakers used photo slides. Ole Ueland 

 SWCD supervisor, explained the purpose of the 

 Soil and Water Conservation District and thanked all 

 who cooperated in putting the program on, and 

 especially the county superintendent's office, 

 Butte school district, and the parochial schools. 

 Don McCann, WUC, and Bill Richlter, county 

 extendion agent, were co-chairmen for this 

 program. 



BEAVERHEAD SWCD and BUREAU-OF LAND 

 MANAGEMENT personnel met October 7. Ken 

 Chambers of the BLM explained how proposed 

 BLM projects are started two years before they 

 are planned to be put into effect. An engineering 

 survey by BLM engineers indicated a dam was 

 needed in Sagebrush Creek. Since this survey 

 was made extensive seeding projects are being 

 instituted as well as considerable sagebrush 

 spraying done. Christensen explained the Beaver- 

 head SWCD felt the vegetatiye work done was 

 excellant and that the board felt was sufficient to 

 correct the erosion problem vwthout the planned 

 dam. After extensive discussion of this particu- 

 lar situation, it was agreed to make an attempt 

 to meet more often and discuss program planning 

 of both groups while still in the planning stage 

 rather than after the planning has been done. 



POWDER RIVER SWCD supervisors took a THREE RIVERS SWCD sponsored their annual 



tour of their district on October 12. Their fall range tour with approximately 90 persons 



plans are to take about two tours a year and attending. This included a large number of high 



are starting out by touring each others ranches first school students from Chruchill and Three Forks. 



and stopping at one or two other places in be- 

 tween. This year the first soop was on super- 

 visor Don Warner's ranch. They then stopped at 

 four other ranches and looked at headgates for 

 waterspreading, irrigation-fishpond developments, 

 concrete weirs for waterspreading and a new 

 shelyer belt, and range improvement practices such 

 as contour furrowing and deferred grazing. 



Shown above are Sam Minow, Supervisor of Posder 

 River, Kenneth Kaul. SCS Range Conservationist, 

 Don Warner, Supervisor, and Herb Beckers, SCS 

 Area Conservationist, looking over the addition 

 to the Don Warner shelterbelt. 



Bob Ross, Range Conservationist for SCS con- 

 ducted the tour. 



LOWER MUSSELSHELL SWCD at their October 

 7 meeting discussed their ANNUAL WORK PLAN 

 for the coming year. Topics discussed were: 

 1) Water Management, 2) Weed Control, 3) 

 Education, 4) Range Management, 5) Landowners 

 vs Leasers Relationship, 6) Wildlife, 7) Wind 

 and Water Erosion, 8) Speculated Capital, 9) 

 Absentee Ovraers. 



LAKE SWCD at August meeting: Motion by Bill 

 Udall and seconded by Ralph Towe that the super- 

 visors make the necessary contacts to create 

 pressure to have the bill on the contol of wet laiids 

 changed so that swamps caused by irrigation can 

 be drained to bring good land back into production. 

 Motion carried. 



TOOLE SWCD: The National Association of Soil 

 and Water Conservation District Newsletter, 

 pertaining to Associate Supervisors, was read 

 by G. G. Hjartarson. The text emphasized the 

 idea of getting the people involved and concerned 

 aboaut conservation. This can be done through 

 Associate Members. 



BIG HORN SWCD: A. G. Slattery reported that 

 Mrs. Peterson of the local paper offered to print 

 an issue dedicated to conservation. Slattery 

 moved, Nayematsu seconded that the district 

 cooperate with the newspaper and put out a 

 conservation issue sometime during the year. 

 Passed. 



