The mission of the organization is to foster the science and art of natural resource management for sustainability.
The SWCS publishes the bimonthly peer-reviewed Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
The Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) was formed in 1943, "...founded by a small group of soil conservation leaders ... they set about the task of creating an association through which conservationists could increase their efficiency and effectiveness as leaders, improve their vocational competencies, and utilize their combined talents and influence in solving the problems facing conservation programs.
The mission of the organization is to foster the science and art of natural resource management for sustainability.
[Previously, a meeting had been held in Chicago on November 11, 1941, where Bennett, Musser, McClymonds, and Christ, the "original four," proposed the organization.