The act, which established the Soil Conservation Service, sought to “control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health ...

By creating the Soil Conservation Service and a new suite of conservation programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal government provided our nation’s farmers with the ...

Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett (left) first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and Mr. Roach Stewart (Duke Power Co.) In the early years of the 1930s, the extent of the damage inflicted on the ...