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HARRISBURG - A national
leader predicted that the con
servation titles of the 1985 Farm
Bill will bring the greatest ad
vances in controlling the country’s
soil erosion threat. Wilson Scaling,
chief of the USDA Soil Con
servation Service, told county
conservation district directors
attending the annual meeting of
the Pennsylvania Association of
Conservation District Directors
that this was the best piece of
conservation legislation “to come
down the pike since the thirties.”
Scaling was referring to the
portions of the law which require
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farmers cropping highly erodable
land to have a conservation plan by
1990 and the plan installed by 1995
if they wanted to take advantage of
other USDA programs such as
crop subsidies, crop insurance and
disaster loans.
However, in view of budget
reductions, Scaling said that other
conservation programs such as
mine reclamation, flood preven
tion and rural development would
face some cutbacks. “We will not
abandon our commitment to your
priorities, but the farm bill will
have to come first, reported
Scaling.
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He explained that nation-wide
there are about two million far
mers with highly erodable
cropland of which one million
farmers have their land protected
by soil conservation practices
applied in the last 50 years. “This
means that we are asking SCS and
conservation districts to do what
took them 50 years in the next eight
years,” added Scaling.
Conservation district directors
were complemented on their ef
forts in improving water quality,
mainly in the Chesapeake Bay
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ground water was noted. “USDA
and SCS will be increasing their
efforts in water quality im
provement of stream and ground
water in rural areas,” Scaling told
the group.
Water quality improvement as
well as safety and health hazards
elimination are achieved through
the Rural Abandoned Mine
Program (RAMP). Scaling noted
this state’s leadership in this
national effort to remove the
blights of past coal mining. Scaling
predicted that the federal
government would start the new
fiscal year on a continuing
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resolution which would maintain
funding for RAMP, Resource
Conservation and Development
and Watersheds at about the same
level as the past year.
“If Congress passes a budget, it
appears, a reduction in watershed
and river basin of about $23 million
and an increase in soil con
servation programs of about $ll
million,” stated Scaling.
The Pennsylvania Association of
Conservation District Directors,
Inc. met earlier this month in
Johnstown with about 300 county
conservation district officials and
other conservation leaders at
tending.
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