Great Plains Committee - Oscar Hipp.e - Failure to adhere to contract 

 schedules is causing the SCS to expend valuable manpower and other expenses in 

 revising and extending contract schedules. Funds are needlessly tied up by 

 tardy compliance with contract schedules, thus inhibiting the conservation 

 effort. District supervisors have authority to take greater supervisory 

 action in keeping contract schedules up to date, so we call on districts to 

 take greater action in developing reasonable contract schedules and in 

 attempting to keep contract work up to schedule. 



Budget and Finance Committee - Gladys Hippe - This is the time of 

 year district supervisors should be preparing realistic budgets for fiscal 

 year 1975 and meeting with county commissioners to give a report on their 

 past years activities and future budget needs. 



DISTRICT DOINGS 



The Chouteau County Conservation District , headquartered at Fort Benton, 

 Montana, is worthy of special recognition for public involvement in district 

 programs. Using the special project provisions of the Montana District Law, 

 they have organized a Highwood Alkali Association with nine directors, a 

 rangeland improvement council with nine directors and a Tunis-Fort Benton 

 Wind Erosion Control Group with fifteen members. These 33 leaders and the 

 12 supervisors of the Conservation District total 45 people in addition to 

 the professional staff and associated agencies who are actively working in 

 leadership positions in that district. All of these people are active and 

 are making significant contributions to these special activities and the 

 overall conservation program in that district. 



The Richland Conservation District had its Annual Report printed in the 

 Sidney Herald (4200 circulation) for the first time. The Dawson CD had 

 their Annual Report published in the Glendive Ranger Review (4000 circu- 

 lation) . Teton County CD held two night meetings with twenty-three ranchers 

 discussing the advantages of proper stocking, pasture planting for early 

 and late fall grazing and establishing workable grazing systems. Flathead 

 CD is planning their annual eighth grade school conservation tour for the 

 fXrst week in May. This tour reaches 1,000 students in 3 days. Big Sky, 

 Inc., a cooperator with the Gallatin County CD has requested assistance 

 from the district in locating a sanitary landfill site for garbage disposal. 



6oil (Stewardship Week ilay 19-26. 1974 



Governor Tom Judge has proclaimed May 19-26, 1974 as Soil Stewardship Week 

 In Montana. 



The National Association of Conservation Districts, a non-governmental 

 organization of 3,000 individual districts and their 50 state associations 

 throughout America sponsor this event to emphasize that the basic motiva- 

 tion for the conservation and orderly development of natural resources 

 is man's recognition of his responsibility under God to protect and use 

 wisely His precious gifts of soil, water, and the myriad of related 

 elements making up our environment. 



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