Two Pennsylvanians win SCSA Honor Awards
BY SALLY DUNMIRE conservation movement.
Staff Correspondent One organization that vigorously
ST. LOUIS, Mo. During the promotes the preservation of these
infamous dust bowl days of the precious natural resources is the
1930’5, the need for soil and water Soil Conservation Society of
conservation spawned the soil America.
SOSA Award winner James Hostetter, on his Mifflin County
farm.
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This year, the SCSA’s 40th an
nual meeting was held in the
bustling metropolis of St. Louis,
the “Gateway to the West”. The
five-day event featured 96
educational workshops of interest
to farmers, environmentalists and
all others concerned about con
servation. Topics ran the en
vironmental gamut from soil and
water to fish, wildlife and en
vironmental education.
Soil and water conservation are
global concerns. A workshop en
titled “Conservation in Tan
zania..”, for instance, outlined the
objectives of HADO (Hifadhi Ya
Ardhi Dodoma), the land
rehabilitation and reclamation
scheme for the Dodoma region in
East Africa.
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document the dramatic need for
conservation in Africa. For a
variety of reasons, including
politics, artificially depressed
farm prices, drought, low fertility
and erosion, the country remains
incapable of feeding itself.
The grip of famine and death
might have been reduced or
avoided if proper soil and water
conservation measures had been
used. Currently Tanzania is
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beginning to reclaim its land and to
feed its people.
Also featured at the meeting was
a land resource tour to three
Illinois farms, where management
and marketing were adapted to the
soil’s capabilities.
Other tours provided a look at
Indian Springs, a historic Missouri
working homestead; Arch
Minerals, an active strip mine
reclamation operation; the
Ralston Purina Company’s
Research Farm; the Busch
Wildlife Area; and the Forrest
Keeling Nursery.
Many SCSA awards were
presented to Americans and
Canadians, with two Penn
sylvanians among the ten Honor
Award recipients. The Honor
Award is given to individuals who
make significant contributions to
land and water conservation.
Honor award recipients from
this area included William R.
Eising, Lemoyne and James
Hostetler of McVeytown.
An instruction advisor and a
science-environment teacher at
the West Shore School District,
Eising was recognized by the SCSA
for his innovative approach to
environmental education.
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Eising is the temporary director
of the Whitetail Environmental
Center and is involved with the
teacher education programs,
Project Learning Tree and Project
Wild. He writes the “Outdoor
Learning” column for the Penn
sylvania Game News and con
tributes to other sportsman’s
magazines.
Currently working on his PhD. at
Penn State, Eising believes that
environmental education should be
practiced in the schools, as well as
at the community and statewide
levels.
Hostetter, who has farmed his
Mifflin County corn-alfalfa-dairy
farm for 20 years, was recognized
for his cost-effective conservation
measures.
Hostetter employs a com
prehensive program of con
servation measures, including
strip cropping, grassy waterways,
no-till planting, water diversions,
contour plowing, a winter cover
crop (annual rye) and subsurface
drainage. He also is extremely
conscientious in his nutrient
management practices, especially
efficient use of his manure pit.
A member of the Mifflin County
Conservation District, Hostetter
believes “it won’t be enough until
everyone does it. There should be
more emphasis on soil and water
conservation, but I think it’s
coming, especially with the
younger fellows. Almost all far
mers are using some measures,
especially contour plowing, but
there are so many other things that
can be done.
“What worries me are the
proposed government funding cuts
to the Soil Conservation Service.
These people will come out and
help you with things like laying out
contour strips, or designing and
supervising the construction of
manure pits. They helped me with
mine. If they can’t do it any more.