United States Soil Conservation Service Photograph Collection [picture]. [1935-1940]

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United States Soil Conservation Service Photograph Collection [picture]. [1935-1940]

5 contact sheets.1 album containing 18 photoprints ; 11.5 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7531200

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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United States. Soil Conservation Service. Region Eight.

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The Soil Conservation Service was first know as the Soil Erosion Service under the Secretary of Interior by an allotment made August 24, 1933. By the authority of the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 the Service was established under the Department of Agriculture. In 1994 the Service was abolished and its functions assumed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Soil Conservation Service had the responsibility for developing and carrying out a national soil and water conservation program...

United States. Soil Conservation Service

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Reports were prepared by various engineers with the Soil Conservation Service. From the description of Reports of a land management survey, Navajo Indian Reservation, 1930-1938. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31277347 Formed in 1935, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its function was to promote and lead efforts to protect against soil and watershed degradation as part of a broader concern fo...