The Federal agencies in our Democracy, before and after Leopold and Bennett, have done a great job in pursuing reinvention opportunities. Bennett was speaking before Congress in Washington, DC in 1933 in support of a national conservation program as soil blown east from the dust storms of the Midwest was settling on the outside window sills at the US Capitol. He seized the moment and the Soil Conservation Service was established in the Department of Agriculture.
Opportunities exist today and reinvention is a dynamic process.
Continuous improvement in the collective Federal program delivery will result from internalized collaboration and communications, a commitment to assist informed local leadership, accommodating the dynamics of scale in the watershed approach, and respect for the voluntary values of democracy.