7th Annual Regional Envirothon to be held Here
Nineteen high school teams – including one from Council Grove, two from White City, two from Madison High, five from Northern Heights, three from Olpe, four from Mission Valley, and one team each from Blue Valley and Chase County – are entered in the Regional Envirothon on April 6th at White Memorial Camp.The seventh annual Envirothon is hosted by the Morris County Conservation District. The presentation and questions phase of the competition will start at 9 a.m. with the teams rotating through 20-minute sessions on Soils/Land Use, Forestry, Wildlife, Rangeland, and Aquatics/Ecology.After lunch, the participants will go through 25-minute testing rounds from 12:00-2:25 p.m., on the five subjects. Team winners and test results will be announced after the final scores have been posted, at approximately 2:45 p.m.The top teams from each school will qualify for the Kansas Envirothon April 27, at Camp Wood in Elmdale. The North America (NCF) Envirothon is scheduled July 24-29th at Peterborough, Ontario. The 2016 Current Issue is “Invasive Species – A Challenge to the Environment, Economy & Society” where all teams are required to compete in oral presentations at the Kansas Envirothon competition. The oral presentation will be for 10 minutes with a total of 100 points possible. All team members are required to participate in the presentation. Instructors for the Council Grove Regional presentations are: Soils/Land Use – Donald Gastineau, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS); Forestry – Thad Rhodes and Howard Freerksen, Kansas Forest Service; Wildlife – Jeff Rue, Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks (KDWP) & Tourism and Angela Anderson, Twin Lakes WRAPS Coordinator; Aquatics/Ecology – Pat Silovsky – KDWP & Tourism Milford Nature Center; and Rangeland – Doug Spencer, NRCS. Each station will address the current issue of Invasive Species.Envirothon Schedule:April 6, 2016 - Regional Envirothon at White Memorial Camp, Morris County
Contact JoBea Titus-Hutchinson at the Morris County Conservation District MAP
April 7, 2016 - Regional Envirothon at Lake Parsons, Neosho County
Contact Abby Carpenter at the Neosho County Conservation District
April 13, 2016 - Regional Envirothon at Wilson Lake, Russell County
Contact Pamela Hays at the Ellsworth County Conservation District
April 13, 2016 - Regional Envirothon at Red Rock Ranch, Jackson County. MAP MAP2
Contact Dana Schmelzle at the Nemaha County Conservation District
April 27, 2016 - Kansas Envirothon at Camp Wood, Elmdale, KS.
Contact Tom Meek at the Clay County Conservation District Camp Wood directions and layout at
www.campwood.org
July 24-29, 2016 - NCF Envirothon at Peterborough, Ontario
