Soil+Conservations+Act+9

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//"Control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment." //=====

//Established the Soil Conservation Service //

 * The Soil Conservation Service taught farmers how to conserve the soil through contour plowing, terracing, and crop rotation.
 * Established after the 1934 National Erosion Reconnaissance Survey, under the US Department of Agriculture as to replace the Soil Erosion Service.
 * Now known as the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), changed during the Clinton Administration
 * Founded by Hugh Hammond Bennett, a soil conservation pioneer who worked for the Department of Agriculture from 1903 to 1952