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Crowell and Clark Earn
Silver Hard Hat Awards |
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Silver Hard Hat Award is given for 50 new Tree Farm
inspections. Only ten other Virginia forester’s, up to now,
have received this honor since the American Tree Farm
Program started this recognition in the late 1970s. This
year, the Virginia Tree Farm Committee honored two
individuals with this award: Gerald Crowell and Jim Clark.
Gerald Crowell, a native of Tennessee, moved to Virginia in
1955 when he was only six years old. He received his
bachelor’s degree in forestery in 1974.
Gerald started his forestry career with the Virginia
Division of Forestry, now the Department of Forestry. After
three years in the Tappahannock area Gerald transferred to
Winchester as the Area Forester where he has served the
landowners of Frederick and Clarke County for the past
thirty years.
Crowell has been active with the Tree Farm Program his whole
professional career and his many accomplishments in the
program include the Bronze Hard Hat award for 25 new
inspections; 1990 Virginia Tree Farm Inspector of the Year;
sponsored or co-sponsored at least a dozen nominations for
Virginia Tree Farmer of the Year, three of whom became
Virginia Tree Farmers of the Year (Will and Nancy Johnston,
James R. Wilkins Jr. and Rob and Charles Sutphin); Completed
at least 150 reinspections; and is the Region 3 Co-Chairman
of the Virginia Tree Farm Committee.
James C. Clark received his bachelor’s degree in Forestry
Management from Virginia Tech in 1967. After service with
the U.S. Navy and the Army Reserve Jim began his career with
the Virginia Department of Forestry at Farmville in 1970
before moving to Christiansburg in 1972 were he has served
as Area Forester for Giles, Montgomery and Pulaski Counties.
Clark is a member of the Society of American Foresters and
Virginia Forestry Association. He is a Certified Forester
(CF) and a Certified Arborist (CA) and owner of a certified
Tree Farm.
In his service to Tree Farmers, he has now certified 57 Tree
Farms. He stated, “It took 18 years to get the first 25 and
nearly 17 more years to reach 50.” Among the Tree Farmers he
worked with is the Rev. Henry V. Langford whom he nominated
for the 1976 Virginia Tree Farmer of the Year who went on to
be selected as National Tree Farmer in 1978.
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