The Idaho Water Resource Board will begin a series of public meetings this week seeking input on the framework for the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer Plan that will go to the legislature this winter. The first session is Wednesday at Highland High School in Pocatello. Next week on Wednesday October 18th there will be a session in Twin Falls and the next day, October 19th at Idaho Falls. The purpose of the meetings is to identify aquifer management goals, the level of management and how to pay for all of that. A second round of public meetings on the aquifer plan will take place later this year.
An Idahoan is one of five incumbents named to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Bill Stouder of Wendell will serve another three year term beginning November first. Stouder, the four other incumbents and seven new members were named last week by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. The board has 36 dairy farmers who administer the program of promotion, research and nutrition education financed by a mandatory 15 cent per hundredweight of milk produced.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is back in Idaho today conducing another Cooperative Conservation Listening Session, this time at Boise State University.
This meeting is the latest in a series of discussions the Bush Administration has hosted since the Presidents Conference on Cooperative Conservation in August 2005.

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Bill Scott