Show-Me Chapter SWCS Scholarships
$1500 & $1000
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Applications must be emailed/postmarked by November 28, 2011

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Essay Background Information:

The theme for the 2012 Show-Me SWCS Scholarship is “The Public Initiative: 75 Years of Conservation”.

The 1930’s were a decade in which the environmental conservation movement in Missouri, and nationwide, took on new meaning. The Dust Bowl forced farmers and legislators around the nation to confront the need for soil conservation. In addition to opening up America’s wilderness for tourists, the Civilian Conservation Corps instilled a new understanding that the environment needs to be maintained and purposefully conserved.

"Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men." [Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from a Message to Congress on the Use of Our Natural Resources, Washington, D.C., January 24, 1935.]

Through your essay, we want you to explore some of the roots of natural resource conservation and that balance of man and nature.

Essay Topic:  

Please select a natural resource-related person or political policy/law/movement about which to focus your essay.  Discuss the history behind your selected person/policy.  Explain the value of this person/policy to natural resources.  And, analyze the person’s/policy’s effects on our state and nation’s development.  Following are examples of natural resource-related people and policies. A thorough explanation of Missouri-specific soil and water history can be found at http://www.maswcd.net/historydoc.htm.  We encourage you to examine your own person or policy of interest, or one listed below.

                  -          1935 Soil Conservation Act          -  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
                  -          Curtis Marbut                                            -  1936 Flood Control Act
                  -          1985 Conservation Reserve Program        -  Hugh Hammond Bennett
                  -          Missouri Parks and Soils Tax

Scholarship applications must include a 3 to 5-page essay (please include sources).

 Applications should be sent to
Kim Worth,
USDA-NRCS MLRA Office,
209 Ash Street,
Gallatin, MO  64640-1185. 
kim.worth@mo.usda.gov
660-663-3703 x7 (phone)
660-663-3697 (fax)

Applications must be emailed or postmarked by November 28, 2011. Email is preferred.