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Article: The Water and Soil Conservation Society? A viewpoint from the Soil and Water Conservation Society's executive director.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
- Author:
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A friend called recently to compliment me on the 2006 annual conference program. He went on to say that he thought we needed to change our name to the Water and Soil Conservation Society because so much of the conference program was about water. I told him I was about as interested in changing the name of our Society as I was giving away all my fly rods.
We were both joking, of course, but his comment has stuck with me because there is some truth in his observation. Managing, conserving, and protecting water resources has moved to center of our agenda. Work related to water resources dominates articles in the Journal, presentations at our annual conferences, and ...