Book Description

Excerpt from Readings in the History of the Soil Conservation Service The articles in this volume relate in one way or another to the history of the Soil Conservation Service. Collectively, the articles do not constitute a comprehensive history of scs, but do give some sense of the breadth and diversity of scs's missions and operations. They range from articles published in scholarly journals to items such as Soil Conservation: A Historical Note, which has been distributed internally as a means of briefly explaining the administrative and legislative history of scs. To answer reference requests I have made reprints of the published articles and periodically made copies of some of the unpublished items. Having the materials together in a volume is a very convenient way to satisfy these requests in a timely manner. Also, since some of these articles were distributed to scs field offices, many new employees have joined the Service. I wanted to take the opportunity to reach them. Scs employees are the main audience. We have produced this volume in the rather unadorned and inexpensive manner so that we can distribute the volume widely and have it available for training sessions and other purposes. Also we can readily add articles in the future. If anyone should wish to quote or cite any of the published articles, please use the citations provided at the beginning of the article. For other articles please cite this publication. Steven Phillips, a graduate student in history at Georgetown University and a 1992 summer intern here with scs, converted the articles to this uniform format, and is hereby thanked for his very professional efforts. Jim Todd of Electronic Scanning and Design created the cover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.