Excerpt from Land Use Regulation in Soil Conservation Districts Soil conservation districts have been organized and are operating in all the 48 states. These districts were organized under state laws, passed by the respective state legislatures. Such laws are known in most states as Soil Conservation Districts Laws. In enacting them, the various legislatures set forth their determinations: That farm, forest, and grazing lands are basic assets of the states and communities in which they are located, and that widespread land deterioration has resulted in an alarming loss of those assets. They declared it to be the policy of the states to conserve these resources and they passed the soil conservation districts laws to permit systematic attacks on the problem. The state soil conservation districts laws embody two basic princi ples: (1) That any effective attack on soil erosion and land deteriora tion must start in the communities and on the watersheds where the prob lems originate, and (2) that the local land owners and operators should take the initiative in conservation work and have control of it. These laws permit but do not require the creation of a district in any community. Districts are organized by local farmers and ranchers through the process of petition and referendum. They are local units of government and have their own governing bodies, composed of local peo ple. Members of the governing bodies are usually known as district supervisors; in some states they are called commissioners or directors. The state governments retain some control of district activities in a few states, but most districts are entirely self-governing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.