Resource Conservation & Development Programs give USDA Assistance to locally nitiated and 

 sponsored projects designed to carry out a program of land conservation designed o carry out a 

 program of land conservation and land utilization in an area where acceleration of the current con- 

 servation activities are needed. 



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DISTRICT DOINGS 



Lincoln County SWCD will have a Soil & 

 Water Conservation Tour in the Eureka 

 area June 13. 



Among the districts reporting sponsoring 

 4-H Club delegates to Montana 4-H Con- 

 servation Camp at Bow & Arrow Ranch 

 south of Livingston, July 8-12, are Dawson 

 Garfield, Rosebud, Juditl Basin, Deer 

 Lodge, Valley, Roosevelt and Liberty. 



Fergus County summer newsletter will 

 feature Supervisor Garde Peterson. Sup- 

 ervisor Joe Stilson will be the editor. 



Choteau SWCD Supervisors Vade Hamma, 

 John McLean, and Bob Anderson attended 

 the wlissouri River Development hearings. 

 This district also moved to enter the Good- 

 year Awards Program. 



Wibaux SWCD supervisors spent the night 

 of May 14 working on revision of their 

 long-range work plan. 



Teton County District Supervisors plan to 

 ask non-supervisors to sit in on board 

 meetings in an advisory capacity, bankers 

 newspaper editors, and others with an 

 interest in the agricultural economy are 

 being considered. 



Sheridan County SWCD report 700 acres 

 of contours have been layed out and that 

 there is a heavy load of grassed waterway 

 work to be done. 



Judith Basin District reports that "The 

 Story of the Land" pamphlets have been 

 given to Mrs. Mable Jackson, Coimty 

 Supt. of Schools, for distribution to the 

 schools. 



Districts of Area VII have written to their 

 Congressmen asking support of legislation 

 to set aside the 160 acre limitation on pro- 

 jects above Canyon Ferry. 



A weed tour has been planned on the North 

 Powell district for aroimd June 18-20. A 

 fair display is also planned by this district. 



Boy scouts in Dawson County are interested 

 in a Conservation tour. SCS personnel plan 

 to conduct one for them. 



Rosebud County SWCD bouth five member- 

 ships in the Montana Conservation Council 

 at their May 15 meeting. 



Box Elder District plans a 4-H Train Ride 

 for July 18 or 19. Speakers being asked to 

 participate are Orvin Fjare, State Adver- 

 tising Director, Frank Dunkel, State Fish 

 & Game Information Office. 



Toole County Supervisors plan a tour of the 

 Lethbridge Experiment station. 



Carbon County District supervisors are rec- 

 ommending to Montana Senators and Congress- 

 men that the Rock Creek tree planting project 

 be proposed for the new Youth Conservation 

 Corps, and possibly incorporate weed control 

 and water development. 



Blase DiLuilo, teacher, gave a report to the 

 supervisors on the Conservation field trip 

 for his biology class which was sponsored 

 by the Stillwater SWCD. Each student made 

 a written report, also. 



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