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Arkansan wins 2003 National Earth Team NRCS Employee of the Year Award
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 26, 2004 -- Debra Crawford, district conservationist
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
in Miller County, Ark., was recently awarded the 2003 National Earth Team NRCS
Employee of the Year award for her leadership and contributions to the NRCS
South Central Region Earth Team Bluebird Trail.
The bluebird trail is the largest trail of its kind constructed by Earth Team
volunteers. The adjoining counties of the four states of Arkansas (Miller
County), Louisiana (Caddo Parish), Oklahoma (McCurtain County) and Texas (Bowie
County) met to join a trail of more than 600 bluebird boxes.
Earth Team volunteers in Miller County, constructed 160 Eastern Bluebird
nesting boxes and installed them throughout the county. Housing (and habitat)
shortages can endanger any animal species. But when these brilliantly colored
songbirds migrated to Miller County and surveyed their dwindling habitat, they
found 160 nice, new, safe accommodations in which to lay their eggs and raise
their babies.
The Arkansas portion of the trail was sponsored by the Miller County
Conservation District and Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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