Lamar County Hosts First Acre Ceremony

The Lamar County Soil and Water Conservation District hosted a First Acre Ceremony on April 18, 2007. Local landowners, County officials, and business people were in attendance to show their support. State Conservationist Gary Kobylski says, “The project we are undertaking is not the first soil survey of Lamar County. A soil survey of Lamar County was published in 1916. That publication is out of date and has long been out of print. The new survey will be a state of the art product, a digital product that can be used in a Geographic Information System.”

Lamar County Probate Judge, and Chairman of the County Commission, was on hand to celebrate the occasion. He said, “Lamar County officials are pleased to cooperate with Natural Resources Conservation Service and the local Soil and Water Conservation District to provide soil data for our landowners. The updated soil data is information that we have needed for many years. It would have been so useful to us in our water reservoir project. The soil data will be information that will help us as we work toward economic development in the County.”

The survey of the 387,370 acres in the county is expected to cost about $1.3 million dollars; the projected completion date is late 2010.

Lamar County conservation partners join with members of the Lamar County Commission to celebrate the beginning of updated soil data for the County.

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