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Article: Wisconsin conservationists respond to field office overload.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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It is often said that we are in an "information age," wherein information will take its place beside energy, land, labor, and capital as a basic resource in our society. In many sectors of society--business, education, science, government--there are indications of this. The need to obtain and use information, in increasing volume and complexity, with greater speed and accuracy, is rising sharply.
Resource conservation is no exception. In fact, given the rapid maturation of public environmental awareness, conservation is a good example of these trends. Governments at all levels are seeking more information about natural and agricultural resource conditions, resource ...