nstrict Ibings, Continued 



and at the same time would help provide some 

 additional funds for our District to operate on. 

 The Memorandxm of Agreement used in Lewis & Clark 

 County was read and discussed. 



PARK SVJCD - Dr. E, R. Hehn, Crops and Soil Depart.. 

 menl, Montana State College, was the speaker at 

 the Annual Meeting, February 17. 



LITTIE BEAVER SWCD - Allan Wang reported on a ms.p 

 selling project as a money raising project for 

 the district. This is an ownership and location 

 map of the district and sold to local people at 

 a profit. Some details were worked out on this 

 and further work will be done at the next meeting 



VALLEY COUNTY 'SWCD - Ed Luce of Frazer was appoin 



ed as Supervisor~To replace Max Sholtus, who 

 has resigned and is now living in Oklahoma. 



JUDITH BASIN SWCD - Ed Cervenka moved John Metcal 

 seconded that a letter protesting the proposed 

 Federal Budget Cut in SCS and ACP be sent to the 

 National Senators and Representatives from the 

 Judith Basin SWCD Board, Motion Carried. 



Dr. Charles C. Bradley, Dean of Letters and 

 Science from Montana State College will be 

 speaker for the Annual Meeting. 



SWEET GRASS SWCD - Annual Meeting - John Yost 



introduced Bob Woolley who presented entertainment «Cause~of Conservation in Montana 



for the group through the High School Sax 



Quintet, a Coronet Solo by Jndy Grosfield, and 



a presentation of a woodwind ensemble. Harold 



Cooper gave an excellent down-to-earth talk on 



Range Resources Conservation. Cooper is the 



Assistant State Conservationist from Bozeman. 



Following this and throughout the evening, somi 



fifteen to sixteen door prizes were awarded. 



CIRBON COUNTY SWCD - Annual Meeting - A Color 

 Slide Talk "Come Hell or High Water" - (196U 

 Montana Flood) was shown and a Color Slide Talk 

 on the U-H Conservation Camp was given by Sandra 

 Hansen. Throughout the evening several door 

 prizes were awarded. 



JEFFERSON VALLEY STCD - At the meeting of February' 

 17^ Charles Wright, State Forester, described 

 the role of office of State Forester. Purposes 

 of the office include holding land in trust and 

 maintaining funds associated, together with con 

 servation purposes. The State Forester works 

 with the private owners through SCS to assist :' 

 windbreak and private forest matters. 



He stated that SCD's are veing encouraged to 

 strongly back the planting of iidndbreaks. He 



CARL H. JOHNSON, ESUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, 

 REFORTS THE FOLLOWING 



I have just returned from the NACC National 

 Convention in Portland. The main topic of dis- 

 cussion was the proposed cutback in federal 

 support for conservation programs in the 1966 



Budget for the Ijfepartment of Agri-culture, 

 Probably, the most extensive proposal discussed 

 was the $20 million dollar payment (so called 

 revolving fund) that districts and individual 

 fanners and ranchers would make to the Federal 



Government for scientific and technical assist- 

 ance provided by the Soil Conservation Service 



to usm. 



In his letter of February 15, 1965, President 

 Mari-on Monk has listed things which local dis- 

 "tri-cts can d«. Read it and act upon his 

 suggestions. 



At the 23rd annual meeting in Lewiston in 

 November, the Montana Association of Soil & 

 Water Conservation SLstricts Education .Committee 

 passed a resolution which stated that all Area 

 Directors hold a meeting sometims in March (or 

 before the Interim meeting of officers and 

 directors of MASWCD in June) with the Chairmen 

 of each of the local board of supervisors to- 

 discuss and evaluate any ideas, work, etc, that 

 has been done by each district. Your K.rectors 

 will then have some ideas to present at the June 

 meeting in order to further and strengthen the 



Ity suggestion would be to hold these meetings 

 where each of the Area Meetings were held last 

 year. Time and place to be arranged by the Area 

 Directors. However, why not make it a real old 

 fashioned "bull session" and air out gripes, 

 ideas, or anything worth while and constructive? 

 The primary motive behind this is to give any 

 and all supervisors who are unable to ^et to our 

 annual convention a chance to be a real contribu- 

 tor to ConseiTration. 



In case you have forgotten where your Area 

 Meetings were held, here is the list for 196U,' 



Area V - Billings 

 Area VI - Missoula 

 Area VII - Three Forks 



also stated that withdrawl of U. S. Forest Service sent in their Score Sheets, please do so as 



Fire Portection to fringe areas necessitates or 

 ganization of other protection. A spring meeting 

 will be held on this 



ATTENTION Those districts who have entered 



the 196U Goodyear Contest and have not as yet 



quietly as possible. Send them to: 0, M. 

 Ueland, Montana School of Mines, Butte, Montana. 



