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Article: Expanding our views of international challenge. (Soil and Water Conservation Society)(Special Issue: Global Change & Terrestrial Ecosystems)
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- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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The Soil and Water Conservation Society is in its fifties. For most people, their fifties are a time to look back, make a note of accomplishments, complain about aches and pains that don't go away as fast as they should, look forward to grandchildren, look ahead in preparation for retirement, and make a checklist of things that they must do and places they must see before they are in their sixties.
Within the Society, the Board of Directors has done what could be viewed as the equivalent to this. They have looked back over the things that have worked well, acknowledging the accomplishments of the Society's predecessors; identified the things that are of value and ...