DENVER, COLO. - Lancaster
County’s most avid agricultural
conservationist, Amos Funk, was
recently honored by the National
Association of Conservation
District for his outstanding con
tributions to the NACD and its
objectives.
Funk was presented with
NACD’s Special Service Award at
Milton E. Mekelburg, NACD president, presents Amos
Funk and his wife, Esta, with the Special Service Award at the
NACD national convention in Denver.
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honored in Denver
Funk
Awards Program held Feb. 8 at the
Denver Hilton.
He has given a lifetime of service
to the conservation movement on
the local, state and national level.
His farm in southern Lancaster is
a model for conservation, with
terraces, waterways and con
servation tillage methods
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Commission from 1963 to 1974, and
1980 to the present, Funk was in
strumental in expanding state
assistance to conservation
districts for the purpose of hiring
professional staff to assist the
volunteer district directors. As
chairman of his conservation
district, Funk led a conservation
effort which resulted in 70 percent
of the landowners in tys com
munity becoming conservation
cooperators. He has served ac
tively as a member of the NACD
Research Committee, Chairman of
the Northeast NACD Research
Committee, and Pennsylvania’s
representative on the NACD
Council. He also served on the
National SCS Research Com
mittee.
In 1969, as a member of
Governor Shafer’s committee on
* agricultural preservation, Funk
analyzed the special needs of
Pennsylvania farms and supported
the idea of a deed restriction which
would restrict prime agricultural
land use to agricultural purposes.
Since 1979, Funk has served as
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Association of Conservation Districts Convention, where
Funk was honored, were, from left, County Comissioner
James Huber, Amos Funk, Lancaster County Conservation
District Director Bob Gregory, Esta Funk, Elva Stauffer, and
Aaron Stauffer.
Chairman of .the Agricultural
Preservation Board of Lancaster
County. As a result of his efforts,
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are now forming an 11,000-acre
Agricultural Preservation Area.
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