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Secretary of Agriculture tours Poultry Center

Dan Felton, Jr. Building dedicated at LMCRS

Agriculture Hall of Fame inducts five

Gamma Sigma Delta presents faculty, student awards

Food Science faculty nationally ranked

Kellie Knight named Bumpers College director of development

Carmen Alessi joins dean's staff

Alumni Society honors seniors

CSES Club named Volunteer Group of the Year

CSES honors friends and outstanding alumnus

Science Day attracts North Arkansas students

Horse Festival raises funds for equine program

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CSES Club named Volunteer Group of the Year

The Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences (CSES) Club received the 2006 Volunteer Group of the Year award from the City of Fayetteville's Department of Parks and Recreation for the club's project of helping to restore a wetland area at Bryce Davis Park in Fayetteville. The award was presented at the Department of Parks and Recreation's annual banquet at the Fayetteville Botanical Gardens Center.

VOLUNTEER AWARD: CSES  Club members with the plaque for the 2006 Volunteer Group of the Year Award from the City of Fayetteville's Department of Parks and Recreation are Tiffany Bogan, Josh Meyer, Bodie Drake and Evy Rice.		CSES WORKERS: Tiffany Bogan, Josh Meyer and Bodie Drake remove invasive plant species from the wetland area at Bryce Davis Park.

Members of the CSES Club also won second place in the student poster contest for a poster about the wetland project at the Agronomy Society of America National Meeting in Indianapolis.

Dr. Chuck West, faculty sponsor, said the club's goals are to restore the wetland area to its natural state and increase public awareness about wetlands. Other faculty advisors are Dr. Mary Savin and Dr. Pengyin Chen.

POSTER AWARD: Pictured with their award-winning poster at the ASA meeting in Indianapolis are Aaron Daigh, Josh Meyer, Lindsay Copenhaver, Ashley Rashe, Brittany Kaufman.

The club works at the park about two weekends a month removing invasive plant species such as Japanese honeysuckle, picking up trash, transplanting plants grown in greenhouses and field pots, and restoring native grasses and wetland plant species.

Vice president Josh Meyer said that about three-quarters of Arkansas wetlands have been destroyed in the last 50 years. According to the Missouri Botanical Garden's Web site, mbg.net, wetlands are disappearing at a rate of 300,000 acres annually in the United States. Meyer said wetlands provide the important functions of flood control, filtering contaminates from water, groundwater re-charge and habitat for wildlife.

The CSES club is also working to increase awareness about bio-fuels and sustainability. “One of our goals is the promotion of sustainability by composting,” said Bodie Drake, club president. “We compost the plant waste we remove from the wetlands and give it to organic farmers; these organic farmers then use it in growing their organic vegetables. So it's really an effective way to promote sustainable living.”

The CSES Club meets a few times a month and works at Bryce Davis Park about two times a month. Membership is open to all majors. "We have a good time and help give back to the environment,” Meyer said.

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