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0. M. Ueland, Editor, Mitchell Building, Helena, Montana 



OFFICIAL N^-WS- BULLETIN 



July-August, 1973 

 Vol. XXV, No. IV 



ADVISORY COUNCIL APPOINTED 



A Resource Conservation Advisory 

 Council requested by Gary J. Wicks, 

 Director of the Department of Natural 

 Resources and Conservation, has been 

 approved by Governor Judge. The 

 Council will assume certain functions 

 of the State Conservation Commission, 

 which was abolished July 1st, including 

 advising the Department on all programs 

 and activities relative to conservation 

 districts, grazing districts, and other 

 local resource conservation groups. 

 Wicks said, "I believe the Council will 

 greatly assist this Department in carry- 

 ing out its responsibilities relating 

 to Conservation Districts and State 

 Grazing Districts. It will further pro- 

 vide a vitally needed link to the re- 

 spective private associations of these 

 districts and to the farmers and ranch- 

 ers of Montana in general." 



The Council consists of eight appoin- 

 tees representing resource conservation 

 interests from all geographical regions 

 of the state, agricultural organizations, 

 and the general public. Voting members 

 include Frank Cimrhakl of Roy; Carl 

 Johnson of Livingston; John Vanisko of 

 Deer Lodge; Gordon Holte of Plentywood; 

 James McCann, Jr. of Harlem, Director of 

 the Montana Association of State Grazing 

 Districts; Charles Lane, Jr. of Drummond, 

 President of the Montana Association of 

 Conservation Districts; and Gladys Elison 

 of Missoula, President of the Montana 

 League of Women Voters. A. B. Linford, 

 State Conservationist, SCS, will serve 

 as a non-voting member of the advisory 

 body. Cimrhakl, Johnson, Vanisko and 

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PREZ SEZ - Charles E. Lane, Jr. 



Soil or Sediment in the Seventies 



Meetings, meetings, meetings. Dis- 

 trict meetings. Area Meetings, Sediment 

 Meetings, Annual Meetings. 



The Sediment Meetings that we are 

 holding to explain SB 401 gives an 

 opportunity for supervisors to discuss 

 with their directors, problems you 

 have and more important to help give 

 them direction in carrying out the 

 business of the Association during the 

 year. Hopefully, if these meetings 

 prove to be successful, I would like 

 to see them continued in the future. 



Area meetings are coming the first 

 week in October. Resolutions to be 

 brought to the State Convention will 

 be discussed and passed. 



Resolutions and meetings are tools 

 that your officers must have to do the 

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