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<br />O 0 "'lJ ',; ., " <br />..... . 'J <br /> <br />'.' .~. ,..~, <br />,.;';:.;~<:. ..'.:'.-)< <br />. ,. <br /> <br />~'-':" - <br />..........., <br /> <br />-," .; <br /> <br />.....:,.~:.: . <br /> <br />'." - ". <br /> <br />.'~. . . <br />:..:1" <br /> <br />".-. <br /> <br />:\ .' ,"' .~ <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />t~~~~~~ <br /> <br />. '. - ;.: '. :'- ..: .::.~. .: .' <br /> <br />.".. ,.".::.:.>." <br /> <br />,.,".... <br />.... .-. . <br /> <br />our federal, state and local agencies to whom already has been <br />delegated the resRonsibility of planning and the obligation of <br />accomplishment. The implication, however, must not be allowed <br />to prevail that the problem is simple or that we can delegate <br />authority and responsibility to a few and forget the problem, <br />or that even ability, efficiency and science co-ordinated will <br />solve the problem for us, There is one word greater even than <br />co-ordination, the word is co-operation. <br /> <br />Let us dream of each individual citizen as a co-operator. <br />Let us think of each individual citizen as a unit of public opin- <br />ion, maker of laws, victim of waste (past, present and future) <br />and still blessed today with individual crop acre index 125%. <br /> <br />Bearing in mind, then, that each individual citizen has acute <br />vital interest, let us state as a precept that any and all project <br />plans of production or land use has a soil depletion danger to <br />a smaller or greater degree, This accepted, we hasten to suggest <br />that it is the active concern of each individual to evaluate the <br />hazard to determine the exact degree of peril to soil involved. <br />As projects are complex and intricate in their ramifications, all <br />more or less interwoven with .soil use, we hereby give three <br />actual soil projects to illustrate and emphasize the necessity of <br />hazard evaluation, <br /> <br />Probably the finest pasture and hay land of the Missouri <br />Valley are found in the sand hills of Nebraska; sandy soil un- <br />derlaid by hundreds of feet of ground water near the surface. <br />Nowhere in the entire valley is irrigation and ground water <br />handled more scientifically than by the Nebraska experts and <br />farmers. However, there is an early day scandal down there <br />in Nebraska; the old story of well-meaning politicians, super- <br />land salesmen and land hungry settlers. The sand hills were <br />broken up on a large scale. Result: calamity, lost hope, hardship. <br />All could have been prevented if the exact erosion hazard, <br />hazard spelled with capital letters, of blowing sand, could have <br />been evaluated in advance. <br /> <br />.' , <br />:~':'(i".',...;::'...:.;:.;;.':"';' <br />- ',' ",-. <br />" : ;~~~'- ~.:.. ~:~'~:.{,:'~,'.:.~,;:~,.. <br />-:..........: - . <br />~/ <;~t~~:..:..:.>..:::::..-? ," <br />: -. ;: ." -.... - - ~: .,: . .....: <br />;;' ....:.::~ . ....:..: <br />. ;-:..:", .:.';,.. <br />," ".- <br /> <br />~!:'~;~:' .~~ /~': ",:: '::'~~:~ :~./' <br />. ..... ::\":::'- ; ::>.-\:~~. : <br /> <br />......- '. <br />...;.;:. :::-:",: <br />. ~', ';" ."" ..... - - - ~:. . . _:.: <br /> <br />. ... <br />.>~ ':~="../.-."..' ". <br />./...::...~;..:::;:...7:. '. =::'.. <br />-.... .:....t'. <br /> <br />, . ....- <br /> <br /> <br />;!Ifli <br /> <br /> <br />.', .', . <br />:;~.::~.{~'::::2{;;~\:':' <br /> <br />.':-:::::';::(;~:';.::;~\:::}. <br /> <br />.... '., . <br />.:. .\,/":<<\'::::~";~:<.~:: <br /> <br />" ... .....' -'{ <br /> <br />~:t'::{:::?J;".f:~;~;~~;, <br /> <br />.. -...'.... '., . <br />...-.....;. '.... ..'>:.'::.::. ....~.:..~ <br />..-.;.... <br /> <br />". ........ ..:..":,;';; <br /> <br />....'-.... <br /> <br />.... ..,;.::.... <br />