CONSERVATION CORNER
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By: Nathan Dewing, Agricultural Team Leader, Bradford County Conservation District Sustainable food production and distribution is getting people’s attention today. Thankfully, we have had leaders among us who haven’t taken this for granted. Let’s remember some.  Shown here celebrating after their planning session for 1958 and a good dinner provided by the county commissioners are (seated l-r) Commissioner John Snedeker and District Directors Gus Von Wolffradt, Ben Ballard, Al Durand, and Dick VanNoy.
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 By: Guest Columnist, Troy Bishopp, Upper Susquehanna Coalition, Grazing Specialist
Effective communication is a powerful tool that many outside of agriculture use on a daily basis. Some use this tool to tell our story for us, when they haven’t experienced the trials and tribulations of farm life. This concerns me greatly as consumers and elected leaders get further removed from the farm. It’s time agriculturists learn these tools and take personal responsibility for the message that is portrayed to the public. Public speaking and media outreach are some of the scariest activities to do for anyone, least of all, folks that work the land. Good, bad or indifferent, forces have reduced our farming population so low that we now have a great opportunity. Opportunity? What opportunity?  By Tess Flynn-Belles, Natural Resource Specialist
Imagine this; it’s an early spring morning, the sun is shining and most of the snow has melted. You decide to take a walk down to your pond and see if the ice has melted off. You’re enjoying your walk, the warm sun softening the crisp of the morning air. As you approach your pond, you take in the light sparkling off the water. YAY!! The ice is off, time to start casting a line out and see what you catch. You’re cruising the edge of your pond when you notice a dead sunfish…. A little more walking… a dead largemouth bass. You look up and notice that the shoreline of your pond is littered with dead fish!! It’s then that it hits you in the gut…… FISH KILL!!! |
AuthorsVarious staff at the Bradford County Conservation District Archives
November 2024
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