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An advanced sportsmen education program would include courses in subjects like archery, muzzleloading, woodsmanship or rifle, pistol and shotgun safety and proficiency. Included in the plans is a greater emphasis on volunteer instructors. The Commission plans to fill this need by working through Operation Respect, a state alliance of major sportsmen's organizations dedicated to promoting better ethical conduct. Sportsmen education is one of their primary goals and they have pledged their suppost in supplying volunteers to assist with the program.
During the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1980 the Commission plans to bring the basic course to at least 30.000 high school students in all parts of Virginia. The lower level program is designed to reach 100,000 pre-teens with an ecologymanagement message. Advanced programs for teenagers and adults are aimed at reaching about 10.000 per year. It will .require_recruiting and training some 700 instructors immediately to supplement the efforts of the State Game Warden force, all of whom are qualified instructors. Operation Respect is in the process of selecting County Coordinators who will assist with the recruitment of the volunteer instructors.
RLEP Meeting
Do methane gas and ethanol production have a /future in Rappahannock County? Research Biologist Lou Borghi will explain the various processes, and put them into perspective at the quarterly RLEP meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the county courthouse in Washington.
“The technologies have been around for a long time,” says Borghi, “and they are ideally suited for community or cooperative applications”. They are not yet ready for individual home use, he adds.
Borghi has long been interested in biomass resources. He holds a BA degree in Biology from LaSalle College in Philadelphia and an MS degree in plant ecology from Penn State University.
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