Alt—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 11,1981
Assistant Secretary
careful planing of highways, for
example.
Acid rain is an interstate
problem, but Crowell backed away
from the problem.
“I don’t think we know enough
about acid rain,” the Harvard Law
School graduate said.
Before assuming the assistant
secretary position Crowell was
general council for Louisiana-
Pacific Corporation, a major
purchaser of federal timber in the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
“Is acid ram really caused by
coal-buming power companies’”
he asked.
“There may be other causes and
the problem may not be as serious
as we believe,” he said.
Crowell 'said he couldn’t say he
had any specific goals to reach in
the next four year’s in the area of
conservation.
He said conservation is an on
going program to increase the
level of awareness among farmers
and the general public, and to put
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more practices on ?
Rich Duesterhaus, 'assistant
chief conservationist'' from
Washington, D.C., noted the total
budget cuts of $4O million in the
SCS budget were, .roughly six
percent total.-'-
“We have reason to believe they
may not be so severe when they
come through the Congress,” he
said.
Duesterhaus was one of several
national and state conservation,
figures travelling With Crowell on
his trip.
“The President is interested in
the bottom line, not individual
items,” Duesterhaus said, ex
plaining funds could be taken from
less critical areas and chaneled
into top priority programs.
In addition to touring state
farms, Crowell met with most of
the state’s agriculture and con
servation officials.
While in Lancaster he took a tour
of the Farm and Home Center and
met with a number of local farm
and conservation officials
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Assistant jretary v e. Conservationist Warren Archibald, Area
Crowell, far right, took a helicopter tour of Conservationist Richard Kirk, and Lancaster
several Lancaster County farms Tuesday. County Commissioner James Huber. f ‘,
Posing with Crowell, from left, are SCS District r
The Robert Kauffman farm, R 2 Peach winner, pointed out i number of im-
Bottom, was one of several farm stops made provertlenti made on the farm to save soil and
by the touring conservation officials. Kauff- keep Water clean. v , jV
man, last year’s Conservation Farmer award 3 '
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