1966 /?A/A/i//9l PEPORT 

 /966 /JA/A/UAL PL/)N 



Perhaps you read or hear that Montana people 

 aren't doing anything In SOIL COfJSEEVATION or 

 WATER DEVELOPMENT or RAHGE MANAGEflENT or CON- 

 SERVATION EDUCATION or GROWING TREES or CROP- 

 LAND MANAGEMENT or FISH AND WILDLIFE - REC- 

 REATION or BEAUTIFICATION or PUBLIC LAND IM- 

 PROVEMENT or RURAL-URBAN PLANNING or EIGWMY 

 PLANNING or POLLUTION CONTROL OF WATER & AIR 

 or WEED CONTROL or FIRE CONTROL or INSECT 

 CONTROL or the many other facets of proper 

 land and water use. 



Add perhaps you read or hear that our Crass- 

 root^ are apathetic toward resource developments. 



Are Soil & Water Conservation District Super- 

 visors apathetic? 



I'Hio is doing the planning? \Vno is doing the 

 reporting? Who should be? 



What is going on? l.Tiat has been done? 



To answer the above questions reports are 

 needed and required. One item of '^fASWCD Assoc- 

 iation policy of Public Relations and Publicity 

 Committee reads as follows: "Urge Districts to 

 publicize and distribute copies of their long 

 range programs and yearly plans of work to news 

 media, legislators, congressmen, county comm- 

 issioners, school administrators, government 

 agencies, businessmen, banks, conservation 

 contractors, conservation organizations, and 

 especially to fanners and ranchers." 



Following are some suggestions in making your 

 Annual Report and Annual Plan: 



Remember — publication of each hew report and 

 plan gives your District another opportunity. t 

 reach the people who should know your story. 

 Repetition often helps get results when single 

 announcements fall. 



Preparing a report or plan need not be either 

 a formidable or a frightening job. Most reports 

 have four main Ingredients — 1) a statement of 

 the objectives of the District or watershed, 

 both long range and annual ; 2) a statement of 

 the Important problems and needs to be met ; 3) 

 a statement of the progress made so far (or m 

 the past year) with various kinds of help ; and 

 A) a statement of the work to be done, the 

 problems to be faced , and the cooperation ex- 

 pected in the year ahead . The order in which 

 these ingredients appear usually varies accord- 

 ing to the special requirements of each District. 



Dollars and cents information about expected 

 benefits as well as various costs. The long- 

 time benefits in Improved recreation facilities, 

 more dependable water supplied, prevention of 

 flood damage, and the improved productivity of 

 the lands within the watershed should never be 

 overlooked. 



Doing "work on the land" is esgential in 

 a District but it is only half the Job. People 

 throughout the District need to know about it 

 — why the work is Important, what the benefits 

 are, what remains to be done, how they can help 



The best Districts In Montana are those In 

 which most or all of the people know about the 

 District — what it is, what it has done, what 

 it is trying to do ... 



W^/^d^^//a^^m^ 0^%^^ 



I GIVE MY 



PLEDGE AS AN AMERICAN 



TO SAVE AND FAITHFULLY TO 



DEFEND FROM WASTE THE 



NATURAL RESOURCES OF 



MY COUNTRY - ITS SOIL 



AND MINERALS, ITS 



FORESTS, WATERS, 



AND WILDLIFE 



