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Show SCS Planning Hew Year En SE Utah In the first year of the new decade, the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service assisted a growing number of units of government in coping with town and country growth and.' land use change, reports Bryant Brady of the SCS. The conservation principles prin-ciples that benefit farm, ranch, and forest lands are proving equally effective effect-ive for resources in residential, resi-dential, industrial, transportation, trans-portation, fish amd wildlife, wild-life, and recreational uses. New emphasis was placed plac-ed in fiscal year 1970 cn efforts to plan conserva-. conserva-. tiqn action on an area wide basis. An example of this "is . the Southeastern (Utah Planning District comprising "Carbon, Emery Grand and San Juan Counties. The purpose of this planning is to improve the quality of living and increase job opportunities in rural communities, and to 'implement the growing desire of Aemricans to keep their nation beautiful. beauti-ful. Meanwhile, requests for technical assistance on farms and ranches remained remain-ed at high levels from rural rur-al and suburban landowners landown-ers in the 3,026 local Soil Conservation Districts throughout the nation. By the end of the fscal year 1970, the districts had 2.2 million cooperators who were applying and maintaining main-taining soil and water conservation con-servation practices. |