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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1970
Page
26
Mrs. Rubing Heinsohn of Pressburg joins the Board as Zone 1 Director to complete her husband Clarence’s term. She and her son Carl run a cow calf operation and plan to expand pastures with Klein grass, Gord blue, and Hardingrass greens this fall.
The Colorado Soil and Water Conservation District, encompassing Colorado County, was formed by a 1947 landowners vote. Since then over 800 cooperators have contributed to conservation plans across about 2402,000 acres of the district's 590,000 acres of agricultural land. In the past year 27 new cooperators joined, bringing total cooperators to 210 and under agreement 240,184 acres. The district reported major conservation actions including 4,507 acres of conservation cropping, 2,326 acres of pasture and hayland planting, 1,414 acres of pasture and hayland management, 2,089 acres of deferred grazing on range, and 3,106 acres of proper range grazing use on rangeland. Nearly 5,000 more acres received adequate conservation treatment for the first time in 1969. The Columbus Soil Conservation Service unit aided the district by assisting 13 operators with applications for Federal cost-share under the Agricultural Conservation Program. Board officers listed include Arthur Koehn as chairman and Henry Sunderman as district director, with staff and local supporters named. The district is a member of the Gulf Coast Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
Arthur Koehn of New Bro tou serves as Zone TV Director and chairman of the Colorado Soil and Water Conservation District board. An original member since 1947, he remains active in district and state conservation work while retiring from farming and running a small beef cattle operation with his sons Wilbert and Elvin. He also serves as vice-chairman of the Coastal Resource Conservation and Development Area.
Herbert Engstrom of Garwood, Zone 3, serves as vice-chairman of the Board of Directors and as a Director from Zone 3. Engstrom, active in rice and cattle farming with three brothers as Engstrom Bros, runs acreage to improve pasture. They seed riceland with Guinea rye grass after the second rice harvest to provide winter forage, and practice land smoothing for irrigation and drainage improvements.
E F Hennecke Zone 5 original board member and secretary treasurer helped organize the Colorado Sail and Water Conservation District. He has long served as district director and runs a cow calf beef cattle operation in Mentz with wooded rangeland and improving coastal bermudagrass pastures.
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