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® s � <br />FOREWORD <br />The annual soil survey work planning conference was held May 11, <br />1972 in Tallahassee. The purpose was to inform the users of soil <br />survey information on the status of the soil survey program in <br />Florida and to determine the uses and priorities of the various State <br />agencies for soil surveys in the future. This would be used i•n the <br />development of a long range plan for completing The Soil Survey of <br />Florida. <br />Representatives of eight State agencies present at the conference <br />expressed their pressing need fdr soil survey information. It was the <br />consensus of the group that more rapid progress must be made if the <br />State is to have the benefit of basic soil survey information before <br />costly and irreversible land use decisions are made. <br />As a result of this planning conference, another meeting was called by <br />the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services on June 21 <br />in the Capitol Building. The purpose was to again bring together the <br />Soil Conservation Service and Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations - <br />those responsible for making the soil surveys - and the various State <br />agencies that are among the primary users to discuss and coordinate <br />plans for expediting the soil survey program. This group suggested <br />that the State Conservationist representing the Soil Conservation <br />Service, the Chairman of the Soil Science Department at the University <br />of Florida representing the Experiment Stations, and the Chairman of <br />the Soil and Water Conservation Advisory Council of the Department of <br />Agriculture and Consumer Services representing the Commissioner of <br />Agriculture, with the counsel of the State Planning Department and <br />other State agencies, work up a detailed plan for completing the map- <br />ping in the State. It was suggested that a Soil Survey Advisory Group, <br />consisting of representatives from interested State and Federal agen- <br />cies, be established to assist in setting priorities to complete the <br />mapping of the State within the 10 -year -span. <br />The following pages represent the combined thinking of the above <br />mentioned agencies, and provide a detailed 10 -year program for com- <br />pleting The Soil Survey of Florida. <br />_ 5 4.4; PAGE-. a <br />JUL 3 01990 <br />