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By JAN LAVALLEY
RappakMBock Nn*. Staff Writer
The day dawned rainy and overcast, but quickly cleared to sunny skies over Madison County. No matter, die annual Seventh Grade Conservation Reid Day at Lightbum Farms would be a go — rain or shine. Luckily for all, since the event is held outside, it was shine. - The event is sponsored by the Culpeper Soil & Water Conservation District for the purpose of educating young people about preserving our natural resources said CSWCD director Rob Lightbum, who generously provides a place for the event every year. r “The issues they leant here parallel die Envirothon, which is for high school students and which is held the day after the field day,” said Mr. Lightbum. The Envirothon is a competition at the high school level and this year the CSWCD has two counties which will compete, Madison and Greene. The other counties in the district are Rappahannock, Culpeper and Orange.
“This event allows die younger kids td -have initial contact at the seventh grade level and become more involved is 'they grow,” Mr. Lightbum said. “In high school they can get into it on a yearround level through science and agriculture classes.”
The students rotate through a series Of five stations — aquatics, forestry, sods, wildlife, and environmental issues
in groups of IS each. Each station was 40 minutes in length and each had two instructors who managed to squeeze in a mountain of information to each gttiup.
Rappahannock sent 10 students, the maximum allowed for each ^school. They were: Brian North, Zach Ashby, Roger Cochran, Tony Payne, Holly
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