{"id":69281,"date":"2016-05-30T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69281"},"modified":"2016-05-29T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T03:17:28","slug":"4-h-conservation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69281","title":{"rendered":"4-H Conservation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69282\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=69282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69282\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P5250697-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Schieferstine gives a demonstration to the youth on Bee Keeping.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P5250697-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P5250697-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P5250697-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P5250697-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Schieferstine gives a demonstration to the youth on Bee Keeping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On May 25, approximately 700 sixth-grade students from 11 Herkimer County schools participated in the Annual 4-H Conservation Field Day School Enrichment Program at the Diamond Mines KOA Campground in Middleville. Participating schools included Central Valley (Jarvis), Dolgeville, Herkimer, Herkimer BOCES, Little Falls, Mt. Markham, Oppenheim-Ephratah\/St. Johnsville, Owen D Young, Richfield Springs, St. Francis de Sales, West Canada Valley.\u00a0 The students visited 15 stations; and each received a tree seedling donated by the New York State DEC Saratoga Tree Nursery.<\/p>\n<p>The stations and presenters included: Lost in the Woods \/FR Piersma and FR Hoag \/ NYS DEC Forest Rangers; Job Duties and Responsibilities of Mondern Day Conservation Officers \/ ECO Lucas and ECO Hutton\/ DEC Police; Conservation in Our Forests \/ Michael Marsh, Scott Healy, Jessica Mosher and Mary Kay Allen \/ NYS DEC Lands and Forests; Tree Planting \/ Gerry Smithson \/ Herkimer County Soil and Water Conservation District; Herkimer <!--more-->Diamond Quartz Crystals \/ Herkimer Diamond Mines; Fisheries Management in NYS \/ Amy Hoyt and Steve Case \/\u00a0 NYS DEC Fisheries; Whitewater Paddling for Fun and Safety \/ Dale Gates, John Foutch and Craig Stewart \/ West Canada Paddlers; Fire Prevention Fighting \/ Roger Neff \/ NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control; Deer Management and Aging \/ Steve Heerkens \/ NYS DEC; NYS Fur Bearing Animals \/ Bill Ballou, Harian Moonan &amp; Dale Wheeler \/ NYS Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame;Wastewater Treatment Process \/ Alvin Montana II and Maurice Luck \/ Herkimer County WWTP; Soil Conservation \/ Ryan Huggins and Rachel Radicello \/ Herkimer County Soil and Water Conservation District; Recycling \/ Jamie Tuttle and Emily Albright \/ Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority; Bee Keeping \/ Jake Schieferstine \/ Mid-York Bee Keepers; Pet Responsibility \/ Ed View \/ Herkimer Humane Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, approximately 700 sixth-grade students from 11 Herkimer County schools participated in the Annual 4-H Conservation Field Day School Enrichment Program at the Diamond Mines KOA Campground in Middleville. Participating schools included Central Valley (Jarvis), Dolgeville, Herkimer, Herkimer BOCES, Little Falls, Mt. Markham, Oppenheim-Ephratah\/St. Johnsville, Owen D Young, Richfield Springs, St. Francis de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}