State Conservation Commission Selects Executive Secretary
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Stale Conservation
Commission has selected Kail
Brown, New Cumberland, to serve
as its first independent executive
secretary, a position that carries
major responsibility for day-to
day adminstration of the regula
tions implementing the state Nutri
ent Management Act
Brown has served with the Pen
nsylvania Farm Bureau in the past,
as a director of local government
affairs.
He is currently director for the
Farm Bureau’s national legislative
programs and its agricultural
employers programs.
Brown has a bachelor’s degree
in environmental resource man
agement from Perm State Univer
sity, and served as a resource con
servationist with the Lebanon
County Conservation District
Brown’s selection was
announced this week by state Sec
retary of Agriculture diaries Bro
sius in a news release.
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sins said, “Karl comes to the posi
tion with, a wide range of experi
ence in conservation and in agri
culture. We look forward to the
leadership he will provide to this
crucial program.”
The State Conservation Com
mission was created to oversee the
administration of the state’s con
servation districts with fund
ing coming through federal, state
and county government
With the Nutrient Management
Act, the SCC was given authority
to carry out the program, a mea
sure that was agreed to by environ
mentalists and agriculturalists as a
way to ensure non-preferential
treatment or interpretation of the
intent of die rules for administra
tion of the program.
However, in die past SCC was
staffed by state Department of
Environmental Resources person
nel, and the commission was only
chained by the secretary of DER.
In June, with the ligningof the
Conservation and Naturallesour-
ccs Act the act that split DER
up into the Department of Environ
mental Protection (DEP) and the
Department of Conservation of
Natural Resources
(DCNR) the position of die
executive director of the commis-
Lancaster 4-H Livestock Team
National Sheep Judging Champs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The
Lancaster County 4-H Livestock
Judging Team this weekcaptureda
first place nationally in team sheep
judging competitions at the North
American Livestock Exposition
(NAILS).
According to mm coach and
county extension livestock agent
Chester Hughes, who returned
from Louisville early Thursday
morning, the four-member Lan
caster County team represented
Pennsylvania at the national con
test and “shined” in the sheep judg
ing competition.
The NAILS competitions are
the last level of competition for the
team comprised of members Lisa
Lancaatar Fanning, Saturday, November 18, 1995-A25
sion was specified to be a person
not in the employ of either the
PDA or die DEP.
The act also provided that the
secretary of agriculture take the
fust watch as chairman of the
revised SCC, with the chairman-
Reiff, Dale Livengood, Gerald
Boyd, and Regina Landis. The
qualified for the national contest
by winning the state competition
earlier in the year.
The NAILE competitions
requires the judging of 10 classes
of livestock beef, sheep and
swine and includes tests on
performance data, oral reason and
questions.
The Lancaster team was the top
nationally in sheep, but also placed
well overall.
Out of the 35 teams in competi
tion, the Lancaster County team
ranked sixth. In order, die top five
higher ranked teams overall were
Illinois, Indiana. Colorado, Ken
tucky, and Maryland. Two points
ship to alternate every year
between the two secretaries.
Also, each state department is to
maintain staff to work with Brown
and the SCC in the enforcement of
the Nutrient Management Act
regulations.
separated Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
In individual ratings. Gerald
Boyd earned a fifth place for sheep
judging, while ranting 15th over
all. Lisa Reiff was ninth individual
in sheep judging and 31st overall
Landis look a 41st place overall,
out of the 140 contestants.
Hughes said he thought it was
probably the first time the team has
won a species division nationally.
Hughes said that industry spon
sorship of the program was strong
with $21,000 contributed toward
awards and banquets.
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