1969 Convention Challenge of the 70's cont'd 



Three types of planning are envision- 

 ed: 



1) urban geared to planning for cities 

 and suburbs 2) regional in terras of 

 trade area and growth center concepts, 

 3) rural for development of natural re- 

 sources. There is need for coordina- 

 tion on a state-wide level so that plans 

 and development may be knitted into an 

 overall fabric. Soil Conservation Serv- 

 l/ice can and will play a major role in 

 these enlarged planning activities. 

 Many of the objectives and goals of the 

 Planning and Economic Development depart- 

 ment relate directly to soil and water 

 conservation matters. 



Roys spoke of matters related to 

 shifts in land use. Rural zoning he 

 stated is a most widely misunderstood 

 term. It is a method of controlling the 

 use of land and can provide a number of 

 benefits, particularly as it helps to 

 , protect agriculture 



Planning and zoning help to pro- 

 • duce economic development. 



Dollars And Sense in Environmental Quali- 

 ty was the topic of Dr. Richard McConnen, 

 Montana State University Economic depart- 

 ment head. He stated "environmentalist" 

 is not a conservationist reborn. He is 

 merely a conservationist renamed. The 

 new name can hurt if we reject some of 

 the sound principles associated with the 

 old name - conservation. 



Why a new name? McConnen implied 

 that technology and changes in technology 

 have created an affluent society which 

 have ignored secondary effects on en- 

 vironment. He went on to say that 

 environmentalists must learn — as 

 conservationist had to learn — that 

 they must do three things: 1) develop 

 a critical attitude toward empirical 

 data 2) develop a theory for rational 

 descision making 3) develop technique 

 to put decisions to work. 



McConnen concluded his remarks by 

 saying environmentalists can learn from 

 conservationists to put greater emphasis 

 on techniques for motivation than to reg- 

 ulation. Conservationists can learn 

 from environmentalists that they just 



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haven't been doing their job; if they ^^ 

 had agruculturlsts and many others ^^ 

 wouldn't feel threatened by increased 

 concern for environment. 



Panel of Experience moderated by Dr. 

 A. H. Ferguson MSU professor of Soil 

 Science, found supervisors Jack Iman, 

 Tom Wharram, John Vanisko, and cooperator 

 James Robertson give interesting high- 

 lights of their experience in promoting, 

 organizing, financing, and building con- 

 servation projects. Certain aspects 

 of supervisor leadership were expressed 

 which left no doubt that local district 

 leadership and envolvment is very 

 important. 



Management - A Key to the Future - Dr. 

 Lloyd Rixe, President of TAP, a private 

 consultant firm of Bozeman, in his 

 banquet address told of future trends 

 that will happen in the handling of nat- 

 ural resources. In the past natural 

 resources have been exploited, but in 

 the future human resources in the form 

 of management will be the key to success. 

 The future economy will be based on hui^^ 

 resources making the best use of the n^^ 

 ural resources. 



Rixe declared technology has caused 

 changes in agriculture business and other 

 businesses. And as more technology is 

 applied operators will need to use manage- 

 ment (decision making) in order to sur- 

 vive. 



Rixe predicted management will be 

 a full time job on most farms of the 

 future and will return high rewards just 

 as in other businesses. 



Conservation in the 70' s was expounded 

 on by Cordon Zimmerman, NACD Executive 

 Secretary from Washington, B.C. He 

 stated the present evidence is that the 

 United States is on the threshhold of the 

 most massive conservation and resource 

 management effort in history. Zimmerman 

 listed 15 concerns: 1) Quality of Environ- 

 ment 2) management of public lands 3) 

 Pesticide use 4) Land use adjustments 

 on private lands as reflected by second^^ 

 nation wide Conservation Needs Inventoi^p 



5) Classification and Multiple use Act 



6) National Water and related land assess- 



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