Show I Moss seeks more funds For SC districts Senator Frank E. Moss recently urged the Senate Agricultural Subcommittee to add million to the requested budget amount for technical assistance to soil conservation districts and for small watershed Moss said the present figure not even provide for increased costs of continuing the services now provided to much less permit gaining on the growing backlog of unfinished business in the vital job of soil and water He presented a list of watershed projects in including 3 which is in the Projects Being Planned Nothing that he had recently visited 21 of Utah's 29 Senator Moss told the of them are rural where soil conservation practices are the key to maintaining and improving our valuable poll I was impressed by what is being but even more impressed by what I know yet needs to be of southern and central Utah has been in the grip of a serious drought now for a number of appears that this year we will be again faced with a drought deeper and more serious than There is almost no snow on the ground In the southern tier of Utah counties and there Is none in the mountains to melt down into a water supply next It is going to be a difficult This is certainly no time in which to cut funds for soil conservation districts already nor is it time to deny new |