ANNUAL WORK PLANS, REPORTS 

 Con t ' d 



"t is difficult to secure the support of 

 the general public for district pro- 

 grams if the public is unaware of the 



function of the district 



District supervisors will soon be 

 meeting in their annual planning meetings. 

 Why not give serious consideration to 

 the development of an action program 

 that will truly project the district 

 into the thick of the fight to conserve 

 natural resources and then follow-up 

 and MAKE SOME REAL LOUD NOISE ABOUT 



ACCOMPLISHMENTS? 



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DISTRICT DOINGS 



Mineral County SWCD - Mineral County is 

 going to petition the Bitterroot Valley 

 Resource Conservation & Development Pro- 

 ject to Include Mineral County as the two 

 areas are adjoining. 



Information relating to reasors why 

 it is desirable for municipalities to 

 be included in the boundaries of a Soil 

 and Water Conservation district were 

 ^iven to the mayors of Superior and Albert- 

 ^n. Both of these Incorporated towns are 

 invited to join the district. 



Garfield County SWCD - Cecil Weeding made 

 a motion that the Board go on record for 

 requesting an ACP cost-sharing practice 

 for earthen livestock windbreaks. Bill 

 Billing seconded and the Motion was car- 

 ried. 



Lake County SWCD - Al Sampson reported 

 on goals and objectives of the BIA con- 

 servation program on Flathead Reservation. 

 He told of a pilot program on this 

 reservation, now being considered, in 

 which SCS will take over technical assist- 

 tance on Irrigated and dryland tract 

 units. The next meeting will be Jan- 

 uary 12, at 1:00 P.M. at the Extension 

 office. Supervisors will work on Annual 

 report, Annual Work Plan, and plans for 

 Conservation Day. 



Sweet Grass County SWCD - Ualverson re- 

 ported on developments of the Lower Deer 

 Creek Project. A meeting with Irterest- 

 ^^d ranchers, county commissioners. 



ard SWCD supervisors was held to dis- 

 cuss making agreements with the highway 

 concerning culverts under interstate 

 highway. The commissionenrand or SWCD 

 supervisors as sponsors of the project 

 will handle legal matters until the project 

 can be formally Incorporated. 



Big Horn SWCD - V/ho's going to California? 

 possibly Slim Slattery, Jack Westwood, 

 Otto Drlngman, Robert Kukes, and Yugo 

 Nayematsu. Otto Drlngman moved, seconded 

 by Robert Kukes and carried that the 

 district allow $100.00 per delegate 



that attends the National Convention. 



All supervisors, SCS, County agent, should 

 have an article for the next newsletter. 

 Deadline DccfTiibcr 15 to Yugo Nayematsu. 



SlffiET GRASS COUNTY SWCD SUPERVISORS 



signing 

 Boe-Engle Great Plains Group Application 



This Is the first group job of this 

 nature in this area where two ranchers 

 pool their resources to solve a soil 

 and water problem under the Great Plains 

 Program. 



The overall project will consist of 

 filling old washed out ditches, trench- 

 ing and laying concrete pipe, installing 

 risers, snoothlrp, construction area and 

 seeding grasses. There will be 160 acres 

 irrigated under this project on the two 

 ranches. Total estimated cost is $7,316.90. 

 This project will be completed by June 

 30 th, 1970. 



From left to right; Jack Halverson, 

 Chairman Frank Cosgrlff, Bob Brownlee, 

 and John Yost. 



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