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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Little City of Rocks 5th Grade Workshop

In September, 5th graders from all around the Magic Valley attended the Annual Workshop held at the Little City of Rocks, North of Gooding.  The students were engaged, moving in groups between 'stations' and learned about Hydrology, Wildlife, Paleontology and Archeology. 
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2:26 pm est 

POSTER AND ESSAY CONTEST
Each year, the Camas SCD hosts a poster contest for 5th graders, and this year we are having an Essay Contest.
The statewide theme for this years contest is:
 Conservation Habits= Healthy Habitats

more information on this topic, visit:

www.http://nacdnet.org/education/contests/poster/
2:17 pm est 


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  The Camas Soil Conservation District is located in the south central area of Idaho on a high prairie just fifteen miles wide and thirty miles long at an elevation of just over five thousand feet. While it has an agricultural based economy, the county boasts of an excellent downhill ski area and various winter and summer recreation opportunities.

   The Prairie is watered by many small streams and creeks, most of which drain into Camas Creek which eventually flows into Magic Reservoir which is responsible for irrigating many thousands of acres of cropland. It is the sediment being transported by the streams into Magic Reservoir that is currently the main thrust of the Camas Soil Conservation District activities.

  The history of the Camas Soil Conservation District illustrates how people have a developed a new way of thinking about natural resources since the District was formed in 1957. It is an ironic history because today the Camas SCD's top priority is of correcting a problem it helped create years ago when landowners, with government approval and support, straightened many stretches of streams and removed willows from the streambanks to gain cropland, The resulting erosion changed the course of not just the creeks, but of the Camas Soil Conservation District.

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