Station now known as The Palouse Conservation Field Station located three

miles northwest of Pullman, Washington, was established to obtain information on the problem of soil conservation in the Palouse wheat-growing region of the Pacific Northwest. Rockie (1932) was the first superintendent of thi<s Experiment Station and was succeeded by Dr. Glenn Horner in 1935. The first ten years of research there was reported by Horner, McCall and Bell (1944). The Station, funded by the USDA, had its beginning in 1930 with 202 acres of land. It was one of the 10 original soil erosion experiment stations established with funds appropriated by the Congress and carried in the appropriation for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This was the only such station located in the 11 western states. The general objectives of the work were: (1) determination of the factors affecting the rate and amount of soil erosion and runoff, and (2) development of practical measures for minimizing or controlling these losses, thereby protecting the fertility of soils for increased crop production. Although farming practices have changed greatly over the past 50 years, these basic objectives in erosion research have changerl little, if at all