BOARD01111

• Board Meeting Date: 6/3/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Objectives of the national soil and water
conservation program are to achieve land use
adjustments and treatment that will conserve
land and water resources, reduce the hazards of
flood and sedimentation, assure the most efficient
long-term use of soil and water, establish a I~
more permanent and stable agriculture, and other-
wise help to insure the orderly development and
prosperity of rural areas.

The program includes activities authorized
by several acts of Congress. Public Law 46 was
authorized in 1935 which created the Soil Con-
servation Service: the Omnibus Flood Control
Act of 1936, Public Law 738: the Flood Control
Act of 1944, Public Law 534, as amended: the
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act,
P. L. 566 of 1954, as amended: the Great Plains
Conservation Act, Public Law 1021 which was also
amended by the last Congress; and the Food and
Agriculture Act of 1962, P. L. 703. Activities
under these acts are carried out in cooperation
with other federal agencies and with state and
local bodies.

SCS, under Public Law 46, carries on a
broad program of soil and water conservation
operations including direct assistance to farmers
and ranchers and technical services to other
agencies and organizations.

The primary job of SCS is helping land-
Owners and Operators, individually or in groups,
to do conservation work on the land. SCS pro-
vides this assistance mainly through locally
organized soil conservation districts, which in
this state is, of course, authorized by the
Colorado Soil Conservation District law. Such
work is basic to, and a necessary foundation I
for, watershed protection and other soil and
water conservation activities in rural areas.
Related activities include soil surveys and
soils investigations; helping find and improve .
plant materials for conservation uses; providing
technical services in connection with other USDA