DISTRICT DOINGS 



li le High SWCD An enthusiastic group of 

 over 125 young people comprised of Boy 

 Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, 

 and 4-H members gathered for the youth 

 conservation tour and workshop. The 

 group devided into three groups, fish & 

 wildlife, soil & water, and forestry. 

 The tour took place in the Fleecer Mount- 

 ain area. They returned to the camp- 

 ground about 5:30 for a hamburger barbe- 

 cue and program for the evening. 



McCone SWCD Joe Icenhower reported there 

 should have been more supervisors present 

 at the Water Development meeting since 

 one of the supervisors chaired the meeting. 

 The meeting was totally Informational. 

 It was said that water is available and 

 there was great quantities of industrial 

 development of the coal resource in McCone 

 County. There were about 80-90 farmers 

 and ranchers present. 



Flathead SWCD The Bureau of Indian Af- 

 fairs is proposing to disband the tech- 

 nical arm of their service to Indians and 

 contract this work to SWCDs and others. 

 kMoney first would be turned over to the 

 District and Districts would reimburse 

 SCS for technical assistance. A resolu- 

 tion authorizing signature of the agree- 

 ments between Bureau of Indian Affairs 

 and the Districts for transfer of funds 

 to contract technical services and agree- 

 ment between SCS and the Districts in- 

 volving the supplying of technical assist- 

 ance was ddopted on a motion by Dave 

 Brewer, seconded by Ed Sirucek. 



Chouteau County SWCD At the suggestion 

 of Tom Wharram a tour was set up for 

 July 14, beginning at the district of- 

 fice at 1:00. This tour would be for the 

 public to see the work that is being 

 done by Buck Sisson and others working 

 on the alkali control area. Wharram 

 hoped to get Dr. Hayden Ferguson of MSU 

 and Ray Cboriki of the Moccasin Exper- 

 iment Station to assist in the tour. 



Carbon SWCD Jim Kolar reported that 

 slides taken on the tour of Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota RC&D Projects will be shown at 

 the next Program Committee meeting in 



Columbus. They will also be available 

 for other meetings throuout the area. 

 There are 37 Project proposals so far. 

 Mr. Kolar stated the district should be 

 complimented for work done on RC&D work 

 plan and any suggestions which will help 

 to implement the RC&D work plan are wel- 

 come. 



Sweet Grass County SWCD Halverson re- 

 ported on prairie dog park developments. 

 He showed letters he had received con- 

 cerning the park and management plans. 

 He stated that about 440 acres or one- 

 flfth of the land included in the original 

 survey of the watershed project would be 

 taken up by the interstate road and pro- 

 posed park. 



Sheridan County SWCD Robert Romstead 

 was named by the Sheridan County Plan- 

 ning and Improvement Council to repre- 

 sent Sheridan County on a proposed 17- 

 county resource development federation. 

 County delegates met at Circle on July, 

 I, for the purpose of formal organization 

 and outlining plans for the future. The 

 motion was made and seconded that the 

 Board go on record as approving partici- 

 pation In the 17-county resource federation, 

 and they, further gave approval to re- 

 questing an RC&D on a 17-county basis. 



Rosebud County SWCD Much discussion fol- 

 lowed Mr. Ue land's report on the tour 

 of the strip-mined area with Gene Tuma, 

 Roy Houser, and Joe Nansel. It was the 

 consensus that a Memorandum of Understand- 

 ing be negotiated with the mining compan- 

 ies if possible. Good public relations 

 is recognized as an Important step in the 

 cooperation of al I parties that are now 

 or will be involved in reclamation. 



Powder River SWCD New Proposed operat- 

 ing procedures were discussed with the 

 supervisors. It is intended to use the 

 contractors in more of the engineering 

 work so as to leave more time for design. 

 It Is expected with this new system that 

 much more work can be accomplished with 

 the present personal. These procedures 

 have not been approved by Mr. LInford but 

 no difficulty Is anticipated. 



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