Historic Photograph: The Conservation Partnership in Action

This historic photograph from 1944 showing the farm planning process is a good example of the the conservation partnership in action. The original caption reads: "Mr. Ray C. Murrell, Work Unit Conservationist and farmowner, Paul Hertzler, examine a conservation survey map sowing where Hertzler's terraces will be constructed. Hertzler is building a terrace outlet that will be vegetated before his terraces are constructed. He uses the tractor and homemade bulldozer to shape channels, make terrace fills, etc." USDA-SCS Photo by Elvwin W. Jenkins. Photo from the Records of the Soil Conservation Service, General Photographic File, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.