SCS Seeks to Keep Kansas Scenic and Productive
State Conservationist Lee T. Morgan outlines the Soil Conservation Service Kansas Framework Plan through the 1970s and beyond. The plan emphasizes benchmark monitoring, erosion control, waste management, land use planning, and cooperation with state and local governments to sustain Kansas farms and urban areas.
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Wakarusa Watershed Projects Progress and Plans
ORMAN L. SNYDER reports that Sites 31 28 24 26 15 are complete or awarded in the Wakarusa watershed with several sites under construction or planned for 1973. Upstream Shawnee and Osage counties have completed sites and others await funds, with floodwater dams built on schedule as construction plans and funds allow.
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Louisiana Street
Baker Wetlands
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Vic Solberg
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Osage
Shawnee County
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Wakarusa Watershed Board
Watershed program reduces flood damage across many communities
More than 1,100 watersheds have complete or underway watershed treatment preventing floods. Damages to farmland schools roads homes and private and industrial property are reduced in small communities. Over 5,000 watershed dams have been built under the Soil Conservation Service program.
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