Convention news cont'd. 



"Montana's Land Policy?" Cascade County 

 ccmmissioner Ed Shubat said he was prim- 

 arily interested in the future of those 

 areas on the outskirts of the larger 

 towns. He said he believed a "grand- 

 father clause" should protect an indivi- 

 dual and his business in such an area, 

 while new developments could be more strict- 

 ly regulated. 



Jim Wenban, deputy regional forester 

 with the U. S. Forest Service, Missoula, 

 explained that the Forest Service is now 

 shifting its emphasis from specific pro- 

 diiciton goals to one of quality manage- 

 ment In the future, in the case of con- 

 flict, the decisions will be in favor of 

 qual ity, he added. 



Hal Price, planner with the Depart- 

 ment of Planning and Economic Development 

 at Helena, said a state land use policy 

 is definitely needed but that such plan- 

 ning and use of controls should be at 

 the local government level or at the reg- 

 ional level, involving a combination of 

 local governments, such as county and 

 city. 



Ed Zaidlicz, State Director of the 

 Bureau of Land Management, Billings, 

 endorsed a master land plan for Montana 

 development but he said he would not 

 endorse an "inflexible" plan. He said 

 Montana is in a position where it still 

 has potentials and options. 



Final Speaker Friday was Ed Glassgow, 

 general manager of the Black Hills 

 Conservancy Sub-district, Rapid City, 

 South Dakota, who spoke on "Regional Re- 

 source Action." 



Highlight of the Thursday evening Awards 

 Banquet session was the presentation of 

 the Goodyear Conservation Award for Montana 

 to the Hill County Soil i Water Conserva- 

 tion District. The district, adjudged to 

 have submitted the best annual conserva- 

 tion plan and program for the state during 

 1969, was awarded a plaque and an all-ex- 

 pense-paid trip for two district super- 

 visors to the Goodyear conservation work- 

 shop in Arizona. Runnerup in the com- 

 petition was Richland County SWCD. 



Mr. W. E. Frank, Jr., Goodyear represent- 

 ative, with Hill County Board of Super- 

 visors. 



Best District newsletter — Cascade 

 County SWCD, first; Big Horn County SWCD, 

 second; Big Sandy SWCD, third, and Broad- 

 water County SWCD, honorable mention. 



John Schroeder 



Carl Johnson 



President's award — John Schroeder, 

 longtime conservationist and retiring m^^ 

 ber of the MOntana Soi I Conservation Com- 

 mittee, and Mrs. Oscar Hippe, long active 

 in the program of the MASWCD. 



Outstanding supervisor awards went 

 to (left to right) William Snapp, 

 Fergus County SWCD; George Rice, Dawson 

 county; Tom Wharram, Chouteau County; 

 Yugo Nayematsu, Big Horn County; Jack Iman, 

 Bitterroot, and William D'Ewart, Park. 



Service awards were presented to 

 Stanley Nelson, Wibaux SWCD, 30 years; 

 Clarence Popham, Bitterroot, 25 years; 

 Emmett Blomqulst, Beaverhead; Art Chrlst- 

 ensen, Beaverhead, Wn. D'Ewart, Park, 

 and Wayne Proff, Teton county, 20 years ;^^ 

 Sewell Marks, Broadwater, Elmer Quanbeck^^ 



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