Speakers at the Lewlstown session included 

 NACD Treasurer John Wilder; John H. Stephens, 

 President of the Montana Association of County 

 Commissioners; Milton Fricke, NACD Area Vice- 

 President; and William Kesler, President of the 

 Montana Association. 



150 People from the six state area of lUr.sas, 

 Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, 

 and Montana attended a successful meeting. 

 Their conviction was that Conservation Districts 

 will accept the challenges our changing society 

 is posing for resource development. 



Montana Association ot Soil and 



Water Conservation Districts 



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EXCERPT FROM TALK BY ALEX McDERMOTT. DIRECTOR. 



STATE WATER CONSERVATION BOARD TO THE MONTANA 

 RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION 



I would like to emphasize that we will not 

 obtain the full potential for natural water use 

 and development in the future until local peo- 

 ple become Interested and willing to support 

 programs that will assure use of water resource 

 development to best serve all people. Conserve 

 tlon and management of water and related land 

 resources can no longer be viewed as an indivi 

 dual problem. It is a problem of equal import 

 ance to urban and rural areas . The approach 

 must be American and on a community or watersht 

 basis, with all peoples planning and working 

 together as groups, and not as individuals, to 

 insure projects for the common good and the 

 best public Interest. The time is here today 

 and in the Immediate future for bold vision anc 

 for strong resourceful group planning and 

 leadership. We spend most of our time working 

 and worrying about problems of physical re- 

 sources, land, water and related resources - bi 

 really, the human factor is probably the ma1or 

 problem of water and land resource use and 

 development. 



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