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to provide assistance in conservation of land and water resources for our community through proactive efforts, actions and education.

Description:
A conservation district focuses on natural resource problems and solutions. We have two full time staff members: Office Manager and Educator/Technician. The District has also gained the addition a Maine Conservation Corps member who puts in 1700 hours over the course of 10 months. The District shares an office at the USDA service center in Warren with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA).

The District focuses on outreaching to the community members as well as the youth in our schools. It is through education that we strive to change the ways our soils and waters are monitored, managed, and maintained.

History:
In the early 1930s, along with the greatest depression this nation ever experienced, came an equally unparalleled ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
Following a severe and sustained drought in the Great Plains, the region's soil began to erode and blow away, creating huge black dust storms that blotted out the sun and swallowed the countryside. Thousands of "dust refugees" left the black fog to seek better lives.
But the storms stretched across the nation. They reached south to Texas and east to New York. When Hugh Hammond Bennett, a knowledgeable soil scientist, began testifying to the U.S. Senate about the soil issues, it took little convincing as the room began to darken and dust began to grit between the teeth of the Senators.

Soon after the first Soil Erosion Service was created and began a new era of outreach to landowners in dealing with soil.

Stay tuned for more history to come...or for your reading enjoyment, you may go to the library and look for "For Love of the Land: A history of the National Association of Conservation Districts" written by R. Neil Sampson in 1985 and published by the National Association of Conservation Districts in League City, Texas.

Contact people:

Kathy Ward, Office Manager, (phone), (email) Barry Tibbetts, Board Chairman, (email)

Office fax number: (207) 273-2228

Address:

191 Camden Road Warren, ME 04864 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.knox-lincoln.org

Directions:

From the North, go South on Route 1 through Camden. Bear a right onto Route 90. Follow Route 90 until you see us on the left about a half mile from the end of route 90. From the South,. . . (more) For maps or information, please see http://www.portlandmaine.worldweb.com/Transportation/PublicTransit

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