Ryan Carlow wins student award

Conservation Foundation presents $1,000 student award for fourth year

Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation recognizes local students with financial award towards post-secondary studies in conservation fields such as forestry, fish and wildlife, and biology

The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation has announced that Ryan Carlow is the 2013 recipient of the Student Environmental Award of $1,000. The award is given each year to a local student towards their post-secondary studies in a field related to conservation, such as forestry, fish and wildlife, biology, ecology, geography, or outdoor education.
The chairman of the foundation board of directors, Bob Radtke, presented a cheque to the winning student during an August ceremony held at the Woodland Reflection Shelter pavilion, at Morrison Dam Conservation Area, east of Exeter, along the South Huron Trail. The Chair wished Ryan well on his studies and noted that Ryan had also served as the 2012 Junior Conservationist, an eight-week mentoring and conservation job experience program funded by the conservation foundation.
Ryan is a student at the University of Guelph. “I would like to thank the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation for presenting me with this award,” he said, upon receipt of the award. “It is going to go a long way towards my studies in the environmental field.”
Previous winners of the student award have been Greg Urquhart (2012), Raina Vingerhoeds (2011), and Ryan Finnie (2010).
Information and applications for the award are posted each year on the Ausable Bayfield Conservation website at abca.on.ca. (Simply type in ‘Student Environmental Award’ in the search tool at the top of the home page). Students submit a creative two-page essay on their personal involvement and meaningful experiences gained while working with a conservation-based project and/or organization. Eligible students must be between the ages of 17-25, have a permanent address in one of the 12 member municipalities of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation watershed, be currently enrolled in university or college, or graduating from secondary school and pursuing a post-secondary education in a conservation or environment related course of study. Ausable Bayfield watersheds include parts of the following municipalities: Adelaide Metcalfe, Bluewater, Central Huron, Huron East, Lambton Shores, Lucan Biddulph, Perth South, Middlesex Centre, North Middlesex, South Huron, Warwick, and West Perth.
For more information on this award call 519-235-2610 or toll-free 1-888-286-2610.