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Show otherwise be unrecognized from their home areas. In announcing the awards, Mr. Romney commented, "The nation's na-tion's natural resources constitute consti-tute its true wealth and primary basis of its future strength and prosperity. "Those individuals so deservedly deserv-edly honored by the year's award are dedicated people whose work exemplifies the finest traditions of the conservation movement. They recognize, as we all should, a responsibility to maintain our soil, forests, rivers and wildlife for their economic value and for the aesthetic and recreational enjoyment of future generations. The encroachment of new highways, high-ways, housing developments and industry upon formerly wild areas must be balanced by increased in-creased diligence in the protec- S.L. Newsman Wins American Motors Conservation Award Twenty individual and two group winners of the ninth annual an-nual American Motors Conservation Conser-vation Awards announced by George Romney, president of the auto company. The American Motors program inaugurated in 1953 as a public recognition of outstanding individual indi-vidual achievements in the conservation con-servation of natural resources, annually honors the work of ten professional and ten non-professional conservationists. Each winner receives an engraved bronze and walnut plaque, in addition $500 goes to each recipient re-cipient in the professional category. cate-gory. Among the non-professional winners was Ernest Linford, an editorial writer for the Salt Lake Tribune. The award of a bronze plaque will be made at a later date. Linford's award is based cn his influence upon sound conservation conserva-tion practices, as exerted through 100 unsigned editorials, written on his own initative and appearing appear-ing during the year 1960, on national na-tional and state parks, forests, wildlife, grazing lands, water pollution and other aspects of conservation. This year the program was expanded ex-panded to include special awards of $500 each to two non-profit organizations whose work has advanced the cause of conservation. conserva-tion. Ed Zern, well known outdoors writer, is director of the program. pro-gram. The selection committee emphasized em-phasized that individual winners are usually not chosen from the ranks of prominent conservationists conserva-tionists or those who have previously pre-viously won national recognition. The program aims, instead, to honor those less well known but dedicated men and women whose important contributions would tion of all renewable natural resources. We hope the American Ameri-can Motors annual awards serves to focus public thought upon this imperative need." he said. Winners of this year's awards are situated in 15 states and the District of Columbia. The awards honor their accomplishments in virtually all aspects of conservation, conserva-tion, including water resources and pollution control, forestry, soil, range management and wild life. |
