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"Conservation 2000--Precision Resource Management" proved an apt theme for the 59th annual convention of the Minnesota Association of Soii and Water Conservation. Districts (MASWCD) Decem- ber 10, 11 and 12 at the St. C+oud Civic Center. The 800-plus registrants attended training seminars on computers, marketing tech- niques, precision farming, and technical coordination with other agencies--in short, all of the things that conservation- ists need to function in this decade and beyond. In addition to training ses- sions, the convention fea- tured akeynote speech by R. Neil Sampson, senior vice president for science and policy for American Forests, a forestry trade association. Sampson spoke on the history of agriculture anal how agriculture must change in the future. "Only if we achieve sustain- able agriculture will we achieve a sustainable society," he said. `That leads me to believe that the future has got to be different than SWCDs con't on p.3 ~~t~~ About 250 watershed district managers, engineers, attor- neys, natural resource profes- sionals and others attended the i 995 meeting of the Minnesota Association of V~latershed Districts (MAWD) December 1 and 2 at the Radisson Arrowwood in Alexandria. The meeting featured keynote speaker Robert Sopuck, the executive director of the Manitoba Sustainable Devel- opment Coordination Unit. Sopuck's speech, called `Getting Rich--Save the Environment," centered on the idea that environmental management improves as countries grow wealthier. Economic growth and sound environmental policy should go hand-in-hand, rather than compete, he said. ;bLiW'D con't on p. ~F SWC~s cooks to future MAWD (L to R) Rep. LeRoy Koppendrayer, Hennepin SWCD Manager Don Wodeh, and Sen. LeRoy Stumpf participate in a pane! discussion about environmental regulation and property rights.