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The Haywood Soil and Water Conservation District ( SWCD ) was chartered on June 18, 1953 and has served Haywood County for over 70 years. The district is one of 96 Soil and Water Conservation Districts in North Carolina. The first Soil and Water Conservation Districts were formed in the 1930s with the first in the nation being the Brown Creek Soil and Water Conservation District in Anson County, NC. Our country owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett , who worked tirelessly to get legislation passed toward forming conservation districts following the devastation by the Dust Bowl .  A five-member Board of Supervisors governs Haywood SWCD . Soil and water are fundamental to life itself. Many people don’t stop to realize the importance of clean water, nor the value of soil for growing crops and trees, not only to humans, but to all creatures. It can take hundreds of years for only an inch of topsoil to form and virtually no time at all for it to wash away during a heavy rain if it is unprotected or has been disturbed. One place that it can end up, all too often, is in a creek or river where it then affects water quality and damages habitat for fish.  Soil and water are

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