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* Extension Service Circular 304 office of experi rATioNs March 1939 



MAR 7-1939 



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"HZ EDUCATIO NA L WORK O F THE EXTENSION SERVICE WITHJ r e o e I v E D 



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REFERENCE TO WILDLIFE CONSERVATION" 



By C. W. War burton 

 Director of Extension Work 



Conservation is no new word to those of us who work for the Federal 

 Government, We have a Soil Conservation Service, an agricultural conserva- 

 tion program. We are engaged on water conservation, forest conservation, 

 conservation of human resources, and conservation of wildlife. The Exten- 

 sion Service is coming more and more to the realization that one of our 

 "big jobs is that of correlation, the task of "bringing together the efforts 

 of many individuals and organizations, "both governmental and private, and 

 of focusing these efforts on fundamental local problems. As the coopera- 

 tive Federal-State agency with trained representatives, the county exten- 

 sion agents, in practically every agricultural county in the United States, 

 we are trying to weave the various programs and plans into a pattern which 

 is closely related to the problems the farmer knows are vital in his neigh- 

 borhood. 



EXTENSION EMPHASIZES LAND-USE PLANS 



During the coming year we plan to pursue this course with vigor 

 throughout the United States in the county land-use planning program. 

 Practically every county has set up a land-use planning committee of agri- 

 cultural leaders who will study the use of the land and the problems aris- 

 ing from such use. Many of these county committees have started making 

 land-use maps of their counties, using all the information available from 

 every source - census data, county records, soil surveys, other technical 

 surveys, personal visits to certain areas in the county, and technical 

 advice from the land-grant college and from Federal research agencies in 

 their territory. Each State has a State land-use planning or policy com- 

 mittee which includes a representative of the Bureau of Biological Survey 

 or the State Conservation Commission, or both. 



Some counties have made considerable headway in land-use planning 

 and are making very creditable maps but, more important by far, is the 

 fact that local people are gaining a comprehension of land-use problems. 

 For the first time they are considering the advantages and disadvantages 

 of certain land uses as applied to their own neighborhood - they are con- 

 sidering the use of land from the standpoint of public welfare in their 

 own community. The land-use planning committees are going beyond t 



* Presented .at-the Wildlife Institute, Detroit, Mich., February-14, 1939. 

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