Young forest managers were recognized by the Missouri Tree Farm
Committee at the 1999 state FFA convention. State winner was Corey
Patrick of the Clopton FFA Chapter (right) in northeast Missouri, and
second place went to Kurt Schmutzler of the Savannah Chapter (left) in
northwest Missouri. Tree Farm Committee chairman Larry Harper made the
presentations.
Dr. Harold E. "Gene" Garrettt, Director of the University of Missouri
Center for Agroforestry was presented with the 1999 Terry Johnson
Agroforestry Award at the Sixth North American Agroforestry Conference
in Hot Springs, Ark. in June. Dr. Garrett was recognized for his more
that 20 years of agroforestry work in Missouri and nationally. (L-R:
Keith Ticknor, National Forest Ecologist, USDA-NRCS; Gene Garrett;
Greg Ruark, Director of the National Agroforestry Center in Lincoln,
Neb.; and Sandra Hodge, University of Missouri Center for
Agroforestry.)