President Sez, cont'd. 



along with the notification . This infor- 

 mation will also be in the hands of super- 

 visors before their district meetings in 

 September. 



At the meeting of your state asso- 

 ciation directors in June, the question 

 of financing, revision and updating our 

 present law, new supervisors handbook, 

 and public relations were brought up. 

 The questions will be discussed during 

 business sessions at each area, also the 

 status of the Plant Materials Center. 



Plans for our State Convention which 

 will be hAld at the Eagles Manor the 4,5 

 and 6 of November in Great Falls are 

 pretty we I I formulated. The theme of the 

 convention is Cooperation and Coordina- 

 tion. Convention chairman, Dale Marxer 

 and Cascade board of supervisors have 

 arranged some excel lent tours. It Is my 

 hope that the attendance at Great Falls 

 will be the best ever. 



Secretary of Agriculture in his ad- 

 dress before the National Farm Institute, 

 Des Moines, Iowa said: "Our responsibil- 

 ity, as I conceive.it. Is to manage the 

 environment for the widest range of ben- 

 eficial uses, without degrading it, with- 

 out risk to health or safety, without 

 loss of future productivity, and with- 

 out being tyrannized by pests. Nature 

 itself, without man's stewardship has rare- 

 ly been productive enough to meet man's 

 needs - - certainly not in the numbers 

 in which we exist today and will exist 

 in the future. Yet our resources must 

 serve every economic and social need of 

 mankind. The challenge is to maximize 

 the productivity of the environment for 

 both necessities and amenities and assure 

 continued use into the very long fut- 

 ure." 



I am sure that SWCDs can meet such 

 a challenge in the 70's thru COOPER- 

 ATION AND COORDINATION! 



Planning Legislation encouraged by SSCC 

 Chairman - - cont'd. 



that they must educate their own people. ^ 

 In response to a question regards agri- 

 cultural zoning Mr. Hanson replied the 

 philosophy is "we recognize the need for 

 total countywide planning." 



Among other organizations endorsing 

 good planning legislation for rural areas 

 were Fanners Union, Farm Bureau, and Grange. 



TURNING POINTS IN TIME - LAND - AND PEOPLE 



- - - was the theme of the Montana Chap- 

 ter and National Convention of Soil Con- 

 servation Society of America held this 

 summer in Missoula, Montana and Toronto, 

 Canada respectively. 



Dr. R. J. McConnen, Montana State 

 University, keynote speaker at the Mont- 

 ana convention introduced a new concept , 

 that of Time Conservation. One of the 

 principle variables influencing the use 

 of resources may the use of scarce time, 

 not the use of scarce land and water. d 

 Perhaps "time erosion" wi 1 1 become a more " 

 serious problem than soil erosion! 



Ave Linford, State Conservationist, 

 SCS from Bozeman has been elected nation- 

 al Vice President of the Soil Conserva- 

 tion Society of America. 



MM 



CONSERVATION NEEDS INVENTORY 



The current detailed statistical re- 

 port of Conservation Needs on private and 

 state lands in Montana has been published 

 and distributed to district offices. The 

 report consists of a county by county com- 

 pilation of a large variety of conservation 

 practices that are needed. The inventory 

 is a useful guide to SWCDs to use in devel- 

 oping their programs and plans, as well 

 as to many others concerned with land 

 use and natural resource programs. 



Kids used to spin the bottle 

 at parties. Now they give the 

 pot a whirl. 



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