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0. M. Ueland, Editor, Capitol Station, Helena, Montana 



OFFICIAL NEWS BULLETIN 



NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 1969 



^ CARL JOHNSON PRESIDENT SEZ 



The end of a year - The beginning 

 of a new one - The end of one decade, 

 and the beginning of another - The 

 Christmas season and the time to pause 

 and count our many plessings. To give 

 thanks to the Lord for what we have. A 

 time to pray for guidance and foresight 

 in order that we may enjoy and use 

 our heritage wisely and well. 



Man lives but three score years 

 and ten upon this earth, and we as 

 stewards of the land must think and 

 plan well to save and conserve our 



resources for those who follow. 



"There followeth after me today 

 A fair haired youth who must pass 

 this way. Tlie Chasm which held 

 no fears for me, to the fair 

 haired youth may a pitfall be. 

 He, too, must cross in the 

 twilight dim. My friend, I am 

 building this bridge for himi" 



^ The challenges of the Seventies 

 are many, but not insurmountable, 

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CHALLENGES of the 70's 



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One of the largest turnouts of dis- 

 trict supervisors and persons cooperating 

 with districts were on hand at the State 

 University in Bozeman, November 12-14 to 

 consider what it will take to meet the 

 Conservation Challenge of the 70's. 



Perry Roys, State Planning Director, 

 set the stage in Iiis keynote address 

 "Conservation and Planning in the 70* s". 

 Roys stated that Montana is facing a tre- 

 mendous change in environment in the 1970s. 

 Tills change will include shifts in popula- 

 tion, increased recreation needs, increased 

 water needs, clean air needs, transporta- 

 tion, and other social and physical changes. 



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