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A number of States have passed soil conservation district laws which enable the farmer and society to cooperate to control accelerated soil erosion. Early in 1936 the Department of Agriculture reached the conclusion that while soil conservation demonstrations could point the way, the States must provide adequate legal means of spreading tested soil conservation practices to all land suffering from erosion, if the problem is to be solved. The purpose of this publication is to discuss how the Department of Agriculture may cooperate with farmers through the mechanism provided by this State legislation.
This publication has tried to indicate how the district idea works out as it moves from theory to practice, from paper to the land. Many of the other districts show as much progress as is here revealed in the two examples. When a considerable number of the recently organized districts can get into action, in full stride, we shall be immeasurably nearer the day when the forces of repair strike a balance with the forces of destruction.
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Excerpt from Land Use Regulation in Soil Conservation Districts Soil conservation districts have been organized and are operating in all the 48 states. These districts were organized under state laws, passed by the respective state legislatures. Such laws are known in most states as Soil Conservation Districts Laws. In enacting them, the various legislatures set forth their determinations: That farm, forest, and grazing lands are basic assets of the states and communities in which they are located, and that widespread land deterioration has resulted in an alarming loss of those assets. They declared it to be the policy of the states to conserve these resources and they passed the soil conser...