Over 30 conservation- .jded students took part in a week-long Youth
Conservation School for Lancaster County youth last week. Participating were:
Ist Row: Mike Weaver, Steve Freysz, Steve Nye, Allen Geyer, Charlie Musser,
Chrie Myers, Duane Heisey, Lewis Corlew, Duane McCloskey, Jim Rhinier, Mark
Metzler; 2nd Row: Eric Snyder, Lori Rabold, Jodi Carmen, Lori Brown, Robin
Hoffmaster, Lisa Cooney, Lamar King, Gerald Stern, John Forwood, Troy Beard,
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LITITZ To spend a week in the
great outdoors eating roast
venison and sharing the land with
ducks, deer, and foresters may be
some people’s way ot escaping it
all, but to over 30 youths who
gathered tor the Lancaster County
Conservation School, it was a week
lull ot learning survival, orien
teering, fishing, biology and the
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County youth gather for conservation school
the National Guard, the students
braved mosquitoes and snakes to
spend a week under the direction ot
Tom Johnston, county soil con
servationist, and Soma Shaner, vo
ag instructor at Warwick.
I’heir activities which began
Sunday - last week, included in
struction in survival by Carl
Graybill ot the PA Game Com
mission and orienteering by Bob
Lautter, vo-ag instructor at New
Holland, fishing school by Bob
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Scott Heisey, Dale Brubaker; 3rd Row: Joe Brady, Rod Kyle, Beth Lodanosky,
Chris Register, John Baker, Marvin Porch, Kevin Oettel, Mike Horvath, Bob
Hackman; 4th Row: Lowell Graybill, Tom Johnston (Co-Oirector) Wanda Steffy,
Dan Lynch, Tracy McCoy, Maria Lorah, John Sweigart, Mike Kunkle. Shirley
Metzler, Sonia Shaner (Co-Director) Mike Good.
Good and Kay Kudy trom Sport
man’s Club in Lititz, forestry by
John Bearer and Tim Breneisen,
foresters tor the State Bureau of
Forestry and the County Con
servation District, respectively;
solar energy by Sandy Coyman; -
and aquatic biology by Stan
Paulakovich, southeast supervisor
tor the PA Fish Commission.
Though the students camped at
the northern Lancaster County’s
Fish and Game Association’s 130
Lancaster Farair
acre game farm, they did have
opportumty to leave the spot for
several classes. These classes
included duck banding at Middle
Creek by Ted Fox, game com
missioner, and a trip to Hammer
Creek to learn stream im
provement by Ron Tibbet from the
Fish Commission.
Tom Johnston, co-director of the
school, described the week as "an
opportunity to promote con
servation m our youth and a
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careers in conservation.”
"1 think the students all enjoyed
the week and profited from it. I had
them all fill out an evaluation form
and each said on it that they would
like to return next year as a junior
counselor,” Johnston said.
This marks the third year the
school has been held and each year
the enrollment has improved. The
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