BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
BETHEL - Berks County
conservationists met recently to
praise and award outstanding
efforts in the conservation and
preservation of nature’s resources
by fellow Berks Countians.
Jack B. Gounder, a WEEU radio
personality, and a district director
served as the master of
ceremonies and Dr. James Grace,
Extension Coordinator, School of
Forest Resources at Penn State
University, highlighted the
evening with his presentation on
“The Year of the Forest.”
“Many people take for granted
the natural resources that got us
where we are today,” Grace stated
in his presentation. “We truly have
a wonderful resource in our forests
of Pennsylvania. With proper
management, we can reap many
more benefits,” he went on to say.
According to statistics Grace
presented, Pennsylvania now
controls over four million acres of
outstanding conservation educator of the year to Larry Kirk,
Reading.
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Berks County ASCS holds awards banquet
public owned forest lands. Another
13 million acres is privately owned.
These figures rank Pennsylvania
/ as the leading state in the number
of forest land owners. Penn
sylvania also has more hardwood
timber than any other state.
This state also ranks as number
one in the number of hunters and in
the amount of money spent in the
pursuit of fish and>,game. Stressing
1986 as the “Year, of the Forest,”
Grace encouraged everyone to get
involved in conservation efforts
and educational efforts to preserve
the nation’s forest lands.
Each involved directly in con
servation practices in their
businesses or way of life, the 1986
award recipients provided ex
cellent examples of conservation
efforts on a local scale.
Receiving the applause and
admiration of everyone present
was the outstanding con
servationist of the year. Harvey
Adams, Sinking Spring, has been
an active conservationist for most
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of his life. He has served in the
conservationist Izaak Walton
League of America for 53 years
and has continuously held office
since the Berks Gounty chapter
originated in 1932.
Adams has been a concerned
conservationist all of his life and
has testified before government
representatives on issues including
clean water and air, acid rain, sou
erosion, strip mining, recycling,
and the bottle bill.
Forrest C. Strieker, Rl,
Robesonia, was honored as the
outstanding conservation farmer
of the year. His 188 acres of his
family dairy farm are contoured
striperopped and under a con
servation tillage program. Cover
crops are used on all com silage
acres. Grassed waterways are
utilized, and rotation plans are
followed. Active in the Conrad
Weiser Young Farmers, the Berks
County Holstein Club, and the
Berks Farm-City Committee.
Other farmers recognized for
their efforts and awarded a sign
were: Walter M. Brubaker,
Greenwich Township; Norman
Moser, Colebrooke Township; Sam
Schlouch, Brecknock Township;
and Fred Wenz, Brecknock
Township.
The outstanding conservation
educator of 1986 went to Larry R.
Kirk, a teacher in the Berks
County Intermediate Unit.
Kirk assisted in beginning the
outdoor education program at the
Kutztown Area School District and
has been involved with this type of
program since its beginning.
Appreciating the assistance the
various conservation commissions
can give to this type of outdoor and
environmental educational
programs, Kirk continues to help
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Mark Wolfskill stands with Solon Phillips, outstanding
conservation contractor, as he was presented the award. Roy
Christman, ASCS member also presented the award.
teach and support others in the
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