Awareness Leads to 

 Action" will be the 

 theme of MACD's 

 31st Annual Conven- 

 tion, scheduled for 

 the Red Rock Village in Miles 

 City, Nov 12-14. With pro- 

 gram arrangements still ten- 

 tative, the general format 

 will follow that of last year's 

 convention, according to 

 Robert Anderson, Fort Ben- 

 ton, MACD president. 



Registration will open 

 Sunday. 12 Nov.. in the 

 lobby of the Red Rock 

 Village with state directors 

 and the resolutions 

 committee scheduled for 

 afternoon meetings. A tour 

 is planned during the 

 afternoon for those not 

 involved in meetings. 



Vesper services will be held, 

 starting at 7.30 p.m., following 

 a no-host dinner and pre- 

 ceding get-acquainted 

 sessions set for 8:30 p.m. 



Registration will continue 

 Monday, starting at 8 a.m., 

 with the opening session 

 of the convention set at 

 8:30 a.m. Starting at 9 a.m., 

 internal MACD reports will 

 be given — the president's, 

 the treasurer's, ladies' 

 auxiliary, NACD director's 

 and State Conservation 

 Commission. 



A panel, keyed to the 

 convention's theme, is scheduled 

 for 1 a.m., featuring Leonard 

 Campbell, regional counsel 

 for the Environmental 

 Protection Agency, Denver; 

 Gary Wicks, director of 

 Montana's Department of 

 Natural Resources and 

 Conservation: Rep. James 

 Lucas, Miles City, and 

 Robert Lyman, president of 

 the Montana Wildlife Federa- 



tion, Miles City. 



Monday's keynote address 

 will be delivered by Floyd 

 Kinsinger, president of the 

 Society for Range 

 Management, Denver. 



The awards banquet will 

 be at 7 p.m., Monday, 

 preceded by a social hour. 



Tuesday will feature the 

 annual directors' breakfast 

 at 7 a.m., followed by 

 the annual MACD business 



meeting, starting at 8:30 a.m. 

 The SWCDMI business meet- 

 ing will be at 1 1 a.m., followed 

 by the wrap-up luncheon 

 with Kenneth L. Williams, 

 field representative/director 

 of the Western Regional Tech- 

 nical Service Center, SCS, 

 Portland, Ore., as speaker 

 plus the statewide finals 

 of the MACD-Montana 

 Associated Utilities High 

 School speech contest. 



Vol. XXIV, No. 3 



June/July/August 1972 



MACD 



annual 

 meeting 



Nov. 12- 14 



Miles City 



How to publish a "Con- 

 servation Yearbook for 

 1972" in conjunction 

 with MACD's annual 

 convention program 

 with participation from only 

 five of Montana's 58 districts 

 has been the knotty problem 

 facing MACD directors since 

 the September deadline for 

 entries came . . . and 

 passed. 



The inevitable answer? 

 Don't publish! 



With no alternative in sight, 

 it has been determined that 

 those Conservation Districts 



Latest word from HEW's 

 Office of Environmental 

 Education is that 

 MACD's "Search for 

 Effective Environmental 

 Education" (SEEK) Project will 

 not be funded for the current 

 fiscal year. Developed in co- 

 operation with the office of the 

 State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, the 

 SEEK Project was adjudged 

 as lacking "depth and 

 diversity" and in 

 "detail" as to the pro- 

 posed participation of 

 the OSSPI. 



Rather than attempting 



to summarize the reaction of 

 MACD to the federal-level 

 critique of the project, 

 it was felt by drafters of 

 the proposal that excerpted 

 portions of a letter to 

 Sen. Lee Metcalf, as 

 submitted by MACD Public 

 Information Chairman Ray 

 Fenton following notification 

 of the rejection, might be 

 appropriate and explanatory: 



"Particularly disturbing to 

 officials of MACD, a non- 

 profit state association of 

 conservationists with 

 more than three decades 

 of practical experience in 



□ nly question remaining on the Search for Effective 

 Environmental Knowledge (SEEK) Project (see story 

 above) is one that now must face the annual 

 convention of tVIACD. Simply stated, it is: 

 "Do we ride slowly and majestically into the 

 sunset and forget SEEK — or do we continue the fight for its 

 acceptance ... 7" 



To expect educators to overcome decades of limited 

 emphasis on the environment and suddenly to come 

 forth with full-grown programs of environmental edu- 

 cation is unrealistic, according to Claude D. Crowley, SCS 

 information specialist writing in 'Today's Education/NEA 

 Journal." 



So what's a teacher to do? Crowley suggests that one 

 answer is "to use the people already in your 

 community who are trained in environmental specialties." 

 How about the District members of MACD? 



Experts predict that effective institutional adjustment 

 to heavier environmental education demands may take 

 years. Meanwhile, back at the school, the teacher faces 

 the problem now, not later! 



And that is what MACD's "Seek Project" is all about 

 . . . are we up to the challenge? 



sound environmental practice, 

 was the fact that all 

 three of the proposals approved 

 for funding in Montana 

 for this year dealt with 

 the 'development of curriculum' 

 — independent of the 

 State Office of the Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion. 



"Approving further 

 'development of curricu- 

 lum' is directly 

 comparable to naming 

 another committee to 

 'study the problem. ' We 

 in Montana know the 

 problem, have developed 

 curriculum . . . and 

 now would like to 

 be able to put already 

 existing curriculum into 

 use with our school- 

 age youth. 



"That objective is likely 

 to make little statewide 

 progress in Montana this 

 year under the programs 

 approved for funding by the 

 Office of Environmental Edu- 

 cation. Certainly the 

 concept of a cooperative, 

 community-involved environ- 

 mental education, as identi- 

 fied by the Handbook on Pre- 

 paring Proposals seems to 

 have been almost forgotten 

 as a funding criteria . . . 



(Continued on Page 3) 



who provided pictures and/ 

 or copy for inclusion in 

 the proposed "Yearbook" 

 would be provided 

 layout space in 

 the convention issue of 

 TREASURE ACRES compar- 

 able to that planned for the 

 Yearbook (so they would 

 at least know how it would 

 look) . . . and those who 

 accompanied their layouts 

 with a check for $50 would 

 have their money refunded. 



Accordingly, and hope- 

 fully, the convention 

 issue of this publication 

 will double as a conven- 

 tion program and as a 

 "briefed" version of what 

 was to have been the 

 MACD "Conservation 

 Yearbook for 1972." 



With time of the essence. 

 Editor Ray Fenton has 

 urged those districts who 

 have not already forwarded 

 copy/pictures do so imme- 

 diately. 



^H loha — "hello and/or 

 ^W goodbye" is how Web- 

 ^J ster's defines the 

 ^^^^L cryptograph revealed 

 ^|^|in the large cap let- 

 ters on this page . . . reading 

 from the upper left corner. 

 (Incidentally, how many 

 readers spotted the "READ" 

 in the last issue of TREAS — 

 URE ACRES?) 



This issue's cryptogram, 

 not unintentionally, may 

 herald the future or demise 

 of TREASURE ACRES in its 

 present format. Introduced 

 experimentally and in con- 

 junction with the SEEK Proj- 

 ect proposal, MACD faces a 

 funding decision on the 

 future of the "new" TREAS- 

 URE ACRES during conven- 

 tion deliberations at Miles 

 City. 



So . . . this could well be 

 "hello" or "goodbye." Aloha! , 



