Annual Report of Soil Conservation Education Committee
The Pocahontas County committee, with teachers from local districts, highlights progress in conservation education aided by the Pocahontas Soil Conservation District and AEA 5 Arrowhead. Activities include a 4 county Teachers Conservation Workshop at Lizard Lake, fourth graders receiving trees for wind breaks, a sixth grade field trip, and a poster contest yielding 36 winning entries. The group won the Marc Cox Award for Community Conservation Service and aims to broaden wildlife awareness and farm practices to support wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chuck Keister Palmer
Iowa
Pocahontas County
Pocahontas
Lizard Lake
Ben Clausen
U.N.S
Lawrence Clough
Pocahontas Soil Conservation District
Marc Cox
Donna Smithson
Arrowhead Education Agency
Charles Keister
Palmer
Beth Hotovec
Pocahontas Catholic School
Linda Baxter
Rolfe
Wildlife on Farms Through Simple Conservation Steps
A farmer oriented appeal urges preserving wildlife by leaving ditch margins unburned and unsprayed, maintaining fence rows and windbreaks, practicing crop rotations and partial standing corn, and planting new windbreaks. It notes oats as a profitable rotation and stresses personal responsibility for habitat.
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Soil Conservation Education Committee
Soil Conservation District
Thomas J. Neal
Nature
Area Extension Service Office
Monthru
N. Main
Pocahontas, Iowa
Silvertown
Bfgoodrich
F.E.T
Whitewall