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SCS Reviews Year’s Work
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - The
Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
of the US. Department of
Agriculture took an end-of-the
year look at its work and came up
with facts and figures on con
servation activity and en
vironmental changes across the
Nation during 1972.
The figures showed that more
than a million farmers or other
landowners received technical
help from SCS on their con
servation and land-use problems.
More than 26,600 units of state
and local governments also
received assistance.
Environmental improvement
work popular among farmers
during the year included better
conservation cropping systems
(more than 20 million acres
added during 1972); land and
water improvements to benefit
wildlife (7.5 million acres), and
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tree windbreaks on tthe farm
(more than 43,000 acres planted).
State and local governments
asked for SCS assistance on more
than 15,500 natural resource
inventories and evaluations - a 42
percent increase over similar
assistance given in 1971.
In 1972, 29 SCS-assisted small
watershed flood prevention
projects were completed, and
engineering work was finished on
11 more. During the year, 41
other projects reached the
construction stage and 28
projects reached the planning
stage, for a total of 1,029 projects
in some stage of construction or
planning.
In addition to flood prevention,
projects completed in 1972
provided water supply reservoirs
for 9 small town and rural areas,
and recreation lakes for 16 areas.
During Hurricane Agnes,
which hit the East Coast in June,
1972, small watershed project
dams and channels inthe area
prevented $22.2 million in direct
damages from the storm. During
the 1972 fiscal year, all completed
small watershed projects:
- prevented an estimated $4B
million in flood damages
- trapped 1.9 million tons of
sediment, and
- provided benefits totalling $56
million in erosion control and
grassland improvements.
The SCS-administered Great
Plains Conservation Program
provides for accelerated soil and
water conservation work in parts
of the ten Plains states where
periodic drought, extreme
temperatures and high * winds
cause special problems. In 1972,
approximately 2,400 farmers and
ranchers signed three-to-ten year
contracts to provide a “total
conservation” system on their
land. The average contract
covered 2,008 acres of land.
Since the program began in the
mid-1950’5, 42,524 farmers and
ranchers have signed GPCP
contracts covering 77,116,246
acres of land.
SCS plant materials centers
released or registered six new
plants during 1972 for distribution
through state associations and
soil conservation districts
The new releases are:
‘Lutana’ cicer milkvetch, a
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MADISON SILOS
Div. Chrumalloy American Corp.
1070 Steinmetz Rd.
17522
Ph. 733-1206
LOCAL DEALERS
Frank Snyder
Akron
Caleb Wenger
Qparryvdle
Landis Bros. Inc
Lancaster
Carl L. Shirk
Lebanon
Sollenberger Farm Supply
Centerport, Pa.
Ph. 215-926-7671
nonbloating legume for forage
and erosion control in northern
states
‘Rosana’ western wheatgrass,
for forage and erosion control in
Montana and Wyoming.
‘Palar’ Wilman lovegrass, for
forage and plant cover on desert
grasslands of Arizona
‘Mackinaw’ birdsfoot trefoil,
an improved forage legume for
the upper Cornbelt and Great
Lakes areas.
‘Lathco’ flatpea, for erosion
control, beautification, and
wildlife cover in the eastern
United States.
‘Emerald Sea’ shore juniper,
for beautification and sand dune
stabilization on the East Coast
Wilmer Steiner, chief plant
materials specialist for the SCS,
cites a 1969 release, the fast
growing ‘Arnot’ bristly locust, as
an example of what erosion
control plants can do. The Arnot
bristly locust can stabilize
surface-mined areas in 4 to 5
years, while older tree species
now used must grow 10 to 20
years to be as effective Steiner
points out that the ability to
stabilize land 5 to 15 years sooner
can mean major reductions in
sediment from surface-mined
areas.
In other major SCS-assisted
work during 1972:
- More than 42 million acres of
land were soil surveyed. A
cumulative total of 36 percent of
the entire United States has been
surveyed by soil scientists.
- Twenty-five new multi-county
Resource Conservation and
Development Projects were
authorized for federal help,
making a total of 123 projects.
These are primarily local
projects in which local people
work on their area’s social,
economic and natural resource
problems. SCS has federal
leadership
- A large number of surveys or
inventories were made on erosion
problems, wetland and water
areas, wildlife conditions, out
door recreation opportunities,
and areas with unique scenic
features.
SCS officials point out that in
1972, as in every year, the bulk of
their technical assistance was
provided in cooperation with
local conservation districts.
Local Men Attending
Education Program
Ivan R Yost of Christiana RD 1
and Author Hershey of
Cochranville RD l, are currently
participating in the third year of
a public affairs education
program being conducted jointly
by The Pennsylvania State
University Cooperative Ex
tension Service and the Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and Rural Sociology.
The group, comprising 32
people from Pennsylvania, is
involved in ten days of intensive
training in economics, sociology,
and political science at the
University Park campus of Penn
State University These sessions
are designed to provide the
participants with a broader
understanding of problems
facing rural Pennsylvnia Later,
the group will participate in a
two-week educational tour of
rural and urban areas of Spain,
The Netherlands, and England,
designed to acquaint the group
members with the approaches
other governments use to resolve
problems similar to those
probelms encountered in Penn
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