Stewardship Week Proclamation 2010

Stewardship Week 2010 Governor's Proclamation

Gov. Brad Henry's Governor's Proclamation for Stewardship Week 2010.

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Stewardship Week 2010

Governor Brad Henry has proclaimed April 25 – May 2, 2010, as Stewardship Week in Oklahoma.

For over 70 years, the state’s network of local conservation districts has helped Oklahomans learn to conserve natural resources. Conservation practices in the United States have helped achieve a historic standard of living and help protect the nation from the recurrence of disasters like the Dust Bowl. We enjoy a wide variety of fresh, healthy food and drinking water.

This year, 2010, marks the 75th anniversary of the Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl. It also marks the 75th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, today know as the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, to help local people combat the Dust Bowl. Stewardship Week commemorates the long history of success NRCS working with local conservation districts and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission to help landowners achieve the accomplishments that make Oklahoma the beautiful, productive state that it is today.

During the week local conservation districts will work with media outlets, communities, faith-based groups and local schools to promote the concept of Stewardship. This concept involves personal and social responsibility, including a duty to learn about and improve natural resources as we use them wisely, leaving a rich legacy for future generations.

(Text of the proclamation)

Governor’s Proclamation

Whereas, April 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of Black Sunday during the Dust Bowl, as well as the 75th anniversary of the birth of the Conservation Movement that rescued Oklahoma from the Dust Bowl; and

Whereas, fertile soil and clean water provide us with our daily sustenance; and

Whereas, effective conservation practices have helped provide us a rich standard of living; and

Whereas, our security depends upon healthy soil and clean water; and

Whereas, stewardship calls for each person to help conserve these precious resources; and

Whereas, the theme for Stewardship Week for 2010 is “Conservation Habits equal Healthy Habitats;”

Now Therefore, I , Brad Henry, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, do hereby proclaim

April 25 to May 2, 2010, as

Stewardship Week

in the State of Oklahoma.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of my office to be affixed.

Done at the Capitol , in the City of Oklahoma City, this nineteenth day of April, in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and 10, and of the State of Oklahoma in the one hundredth and second year.

Brad Henry, Governor
M. Susan Savage, Secretary of State