At a special banquet on December 5, the Central PA Conservancy will honor Dr. Cliff Jones, former Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources, an avid birdwatcher and public servant, as its Conservationist of the Year.

The Conservancy is also establishing the Clifford L. Jones Conservation Easement Stewardship Endowment Fund to acquire properties and create easements to permanently preserve habitat, important bird areas and other special places.

Dr. Jones is the personal embodiment of the idea that having good environmental and good economic policy are not opposing concepts.

He was not only Secretary of DER during the Three Mile Island Accident, but Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry, chairman of the Public Utility Commission, President of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, chair of the Republican State Committee and served on the boards of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, The Nature Conservancy, the Pennsylvania Audubon Society, Pennsylvania Wildlife Federation, the Pennsylvania Parks and Forest Foundation and is an original member of the advisory committee to the Wild Resources Conservation Fund.

In his spare time, Dr. Jones serves as an adjunct professor at Messiah College and Penn State University.

An avid birdwatcher, Dr. Jones has a lifetime bird list totaling 3,800 world sightings, 714 North America sightings and 350 world mammal sightings from his travels to 55 countries, 30 states and 8 Canadian provinces.

The Central PA Conservancy will host a special dinner in honor of Dr. Jones will be at the Sheraton, 4650 Lindle Road in Harrisburg (formerly the Wyndham Hotel). A reception will start at 5:30 and dinner is at 6:30.

Tickets for the event are $40 each. Please make reservations by November 27.

For more information contact Debra Bowman, Executive Director of the Conservancy, at 717-233-0221 or send email to dbowman@centralpaconservancy.org .

Session Schedule

The House will return to session on November 13 after the election. The Senate and House are scheduled to be in session on November 20 and 21.

PA Environment Digest Video Blog

· Rep. Daley On Water Quality Challenges Faced By Farmers and REAP Proposal

On the Hill

· Bills on the Governor’s Desk/Bills Introduced

Other News

· Delaware Estuary’s Kathy Klein Receives Honor From Environmental Professionals

· First Water Quality Nutrient Credit Sale to Developer Completed

· 35 Grants in Lake Erie, Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone to Protect Environment

· Stormwater BMP Manual Pilot Training Session Set for November 16-17

· DEP Proposes Changes to Stormwater Permitting Requirements, Asks for Comments

· Public Comments Invited on TMDL Watershed Plans in Cambria, Indiana, Somerset

· Drinking Water Protection Workshop November 16 in Westmoreland

· America Recycles Day Celebrated November 18 by PRC in Robinson Mall

· New Deadline for Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards

· EPA Awards Research Fellowships for College Students, Including 3 in PA

· Applications Now Being Accepted for Trout Unlimited Youth Fishing Camp

· Green Building Alliance Hopes to Stimulate Green Building Manufacturing

· Knoll, Inc. Joins Chicago Climate Exchange Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project

· Wildlife and Wind Energy Conference December 2 at Kutztown

· DOE Looking for a Few Good Organisms to Make Cellulosic Ethanol

· New BioMass Energy Center Opened at Penn State

· DOE Announces Alternative Fuels Grants, Including Two In PA

· Research Grants Aim to Reduce Environmental Impact of Agriculture Operations

· Penn State's Visible Emissions Training Program Set for 2007

See & Hear

Feature

· Project WILD Helps Educators With Wildlife Conservation Curriculum, By Lori Richardson, Wildlife Education Specialist, Pennsylvania Game Commission

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11/3/2006