North Carolina Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts (NCASWCD)

Pictures of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts can be viewed as indicated below:

General Picutres by clicking here

Additional Award Pictures by clicking here

A fund raising raffle was conducted in association with the annual meeting of the NC Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts which was held January 8-10, 2012 at the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Seasons.  The drawing was conducted during the Tuesday night banquet and winners are as follows:

Third Place Prize, $300 cash — Kenneth Sturgill, Ashe County

Second Place Prize, Holland grill — Roger Eaker, Cleveland County

First Place Prize, John Deere Gator — Cindy Wilkins, Randolph County.

Registration for the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts’ 68th Annual Meeting is now open! Plan now to attend the January 8-10, 2012 meeting at the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Seasons,  Greensboro, NC.  For all the details related to the upcoming event, please visit – http://www.ncagr.gov/sw/2012AnnualMeeting.html

Tommy and Vicky Porter were recently recognized at the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo October 18-20, 2011.  Tommy is an Associate Supervisor with the Cabarrus Soil and Water Conservation District.  Vicky serves as a Supervisor with the District and also as the Governor’s at large appointee to the Soil and Water Conservation Commissin.  See article at http://deltafarmpress.com/livestock/north-carolina-s-thomas-porter-named-expo-farmer-year?YM_MID=1266546&YM_RID=billyar10@bellsouth.net

Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announces that applications and guidelines for the 2012 funding cycle are available online at www.ncadfp.org or by calling (919) 707-3071. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Dec. 15.

John Langdon, Johnston Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, recognized in the National Hog Farmer magazine.  Article can be found at http://nationalhogfarmer.com/environmental-stewardship/piedmon-pride-langdon-farm-0915/index.html.  Langdon was recognized by the NC Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts as North Carolina’s Conservation Farm Family in 2010.

Check out the summary of 2011 legislative actions just posted

Here are some photos from the recent 2011 State Conservation Farm Family celebration in Transylvania County, June 17, 2011.  The winner was  Everette Farms, owned by George and Carrie Lenze of Pisgah Forest, NC.

Photo of the Lenze Family receiving award.

Photos of the Everette Farm: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6, Photo 7, Photo 8.

(Press Release courtesy of NCDENR) Pictures here and here.

RALEIGH – More than 100 middle and high school teams converged on Cedarock Park in Alamance County April 29-30 to compete for ten winning slots at the North Carolina Envirothon, an annual environmental science competition held near Burlington.

Winning high school teams earning cash awards, a plaque and medallions were:
1st – Sequoias, West Johnston HS, Johnston County – $200 and a trip to the North American Canon Envirothon in July
2nd – FFA Anti-Derivatives, Bartlett Yancey HS, Caswell County – $150 and will go on to the National FFA Competition
3rd – DC Endemic, Davidson County Home School, Davidson County – $100
4th – Sub-Chronic Exposure, Enloe HS, Wake County – $75
5th – Natural Disasters, Durham 4-H Envirothon, Durham County – $50

Winning middle school teams earning cash awards, a plaque and medallions were:
1st – Bodacious Baboons, McGee’s Crossroads MS, Johnston County – $125
2nd – DC Awesome Opossums, Davidson County Homeschool, Davidson County – $100
3rd – Awesome Possums, McGee’s Crossroads MS, Johnston County – $75
4th – The Octopi, H.O.M.E. School, Cumberland County – $50
5th – Organic Waste, Home School, Wilson County – $25

Winners were determined by combining test scores from the Envirothon curriculum’s five subject areas: forestry; soils and land use; aquatic ecology; wildlife and current environmental issues. Teams study resource material pertaining to these
areas throughout the year to prepare for the event.

When students arrived at Cedarock Park on Friday, they reviewed what they had learned during the year by rotating through subject area stations manned by resource professionals from the N.C. Forestry Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, N.C. Division of Water Quality, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, N.C. State Parks, N.C. Division of
Water Resources and the N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation. Academic team tests were taken Saturday morning followed by lunch and an award ceremony.

The Envirothon is sponsored by the state’s 96 local soil and water conservation districts and their association, with organizing support from the N. C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation. For more information about the N.C. Envirothon, please visit www.ncenvirothon.org or contact your local soil and water conservation district.