Natural Resources Conservation Service, formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service, is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that provides technical assistance to farmers and o
Members of the Little River Soil Conservation District, Columbia County, Georgia, 1957
An alfalfa farm in Montana implementing an Irrigation Water Management Plan with assistance from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Soil Erosion Service
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The Soil Erosion Service was founded in 1933 and was one of many Alphabet agencies, also called New Deal agencies. Soil Erosion Service was a U.S. federal government agency created by inder the Soil C
Natural Resources Conservation Service
…knowledge of the detrimental effects of soil erosion and the impacts on U.S lands that led to the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. On September 13, 1933, the Soil Erosion Service was formed in the Department of the Interior, with Bennett as chief. The service was transferred to the Department of Agriculture on March 23, 1935…
Hugh Hammond Bennett served as the first chief of the Soil Erosion Service till 1951
US Nation's First Watershed Project by the Soil Erosion Service. From left to right, John Bollinger, a farmer and planner with the Soil Conservation Service, Dr. Hugh Bennett, retired chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Marvin Schweers, Wisconsin state conservationist, and Herbert Flueck, Minnesota state conservationist, photo take July 19, 1955.
Chief Hugh H. Bennett, Mrs. Bennett, and regional conservator A.E. McClymonds view conservation work on the Frank Milsna farm, Manske Ridge on the Coon Creek Demonstration Project in Vernon County, Wisconsin, on October 25, 1946
Dust Bowl in Dallas, South Dakota in 1936 with buried farm machinery