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75 Years of Helping People Help the Land

NRCS 75th Photo Gallery - The 1970s

Carl Anderson, 1974
Carl Anderson describing a pit, with a young soil scientist, 1974. Anderson was an expert in the soils of the San Joaquin Valley.

 

Chris Bootman, 1974
Chris Bootman, shown in 1974, was the first woman on soil surveys in California. More followed her in the next few years.

Larry Welch, Contra Costa County
Larry Welch, shown here studying slipping soils, was project leader in Contra Costa County.

 

Progress review, Contra Costa County
Progress review in Contra Costa led by Dick Huff (left front).

Lab sampling, 1979
Lab sampling with Jack Wright on the Sacramento Soil Survey, 1979. Bob Grossman from the Lincoln Lab is in the pit.
 

 

Wayne Sheldon, 1979
Wayne Sheldon collecting samples in a pit in Sacramento County, 1979.












 



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