Excerpt from Soil and Water Conservation News, Vol. 10: May, 1989 Rc&d council members are spurring local economies by helping peo ple diversify their interests. They're bringing new and profitable ideas in recreation, tourism, forestry, and farm products. They're solving critical erosion problems for schools and historic sites; cutting flood damage; and helping to improve water quality and quantity, solve waste disposal problems, and improve local emergency assistance. In some areas, rc&d councils are helping to accelerate conservation planning to meet 1985 Farm Bill deadlines. Through local training programs, councils are learning to obtain grants and other resources from private as well as public sources. And councils tell me that obtaining private funding often has a snowball effect. When people in the private sector see the good things rc&d is doing for their communities, they want to be a part of it, too. This is helping councils accomplish even more. 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.