4-H CONSERVATION CAMP 



The Montana 4-H Conservation Camp for young people 

 was held on July 8 through 12, 1963, at the Bow and 

 Arrow Ranch south of Livingston in Park County, with 

 excellent results. 



Scholarships were made available for two delegates 

 from each county from the Conservation Camp fund 

 provided by Charles Horn, President of the Federal 

 Cartridge Corporation. 



The Camp program included training in all phases of 

 Conservation with 4-H Camp members getting train- 

 ing In one specific area of conservation in the follow- 

 ing groups: 



Range Management - Don Ryerson, Extension Range 

 Management Specialist. 



Fish and Wildlife - Eldon Smith , Extension Fish and 

 Wildlife Specialist. Roger FUger - Information and 

 Education Division of Montana Fish and Game. 



Forestry - Richard Marks, Extension Forestry 

 Specialist. 



Soil and Water Conservation - Charles Smith, 

 Extension Field Specialist. 



Les Sender, Extension Weed 



Weed Control 

 Specialist. 



Transportation to and from camp for the delegates 

 attending from each county is usually supplied by 

 local Soil Conservation Districts. 



This is usually a cooperative project among all 

 agencies and organizations both on the state, district, 

 and county level to forward education in conservation. 



Delegates who attend conservation camp are expected 

 to come back to their own home county and interest 

 other people and organizations in conservation by 

 giving talks and demonstrations on the need for 

 conservation in all areas - 



RURAL AREA DEVELOPMENT 



At a recent meeting of the Rural Area Development 

 Executive Committee meeting in Bozeman it was 

 recommended that Soil & Water Conservation districts 

 Long Range programs be referred to by County plan- 

 ning groups, and that they be made a part of any over- 

 all Economic Development Program. 



District long range programs are in effect develop 

 ment programs for soil and water resources and 

 contain much good basic information put together by 

 agency people and supervisors. 



GOODYEAR AWARD WINNERS 



The Dawson County Soil Conservation District ha^ 

 bben named Montana's grand award conservation * 

 district for 1962-63. 



Tltts district was chosen by state agricultural leader 

 who reviewed the work of farmers and supervisors 

 entered in the 16th annual Soil Conservation Awards 

 Program of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 

 Akron, Ohio. 



August Sobotka, Intake, selected as the state's out- 

 standing farmer conservationist, and Vernon Dillon, 

 Lindsay, member of his district conservation board 

 will be guests of the rubber company on a four -day 

 tour to Goodyear farms, near Phoenix, Ariz. , in 

 December. There the two men, along with 102 othei 

 representing top districts throughout the United Statt 

 win study conservation practices on the 14,000 acre 

 desert farm. 



The men will be flown to Arizona for the visit and wi 

 stay at Goodyear's resort, the Wigwam. They will 

 study irrigation and cropping practices wlilch change 

 barren desert into productive farmland. 



Second place honors in Montana were won by the Big 

 Horn Soil Conservation District, which named Harold 

 Benzel, Hardin, as the outstanding farmer -conser- 

 vationist. ( 



DISTRICT DOINGS 



The McCone District sponsored a Conservation dis- 

 play at the 4-H Fair, donated a trophy, and displayed 

 their equipment. 



The Jacee's have asked Jack Sprague and Dean Nyhus 

 of the Daniels SWCD to go to their next meeting and 

 explain the "Conservation Needs Booklet" to the othei 

 members. 



The East Sanders district voted to cooperate to the 

 fullest extent possible with Don Ryerson, Extension 

 Range Specialist, and the Soil Conservation Service 

 in setting up range experiment plots throughout the 

 District. 



Bob Arnold of the State Forestry Department Showed 

 supervisors of the Green Mountain district at a re- 

 cent meeting, a map prepared by the department 

 showing conditions and classes of timber acres. In 

 conjunction with the map, Charles Wright, also of the 

 State Forest Dept. , showed graphs on the volume of 

 timber available. 



Lee Holstine of Chouteau County SWCD reported / | 

 seven (7) entries at the fair in the conservation de- \ 



