Tyler Janke
UMC’s Tyler Janke Receives Soil and Water Conservation Society Award
Tyler Janke, a senior majoring in natural resources - water resource management at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) recently received the 2004 Scholarship Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society at the group’s annual meeting in Owatonna.
In announcing the award Lowell Busmann, the Society’s awards committee chair, said, “Tyler Janke was selected from a strong pool of candidates from around the state. Candidates are judged on their integrity, skills gained through training or experience, interest in natural resource related fields, grade point average, and their expressed commitment to the field of resource management.”
W. Dan Svedarsky, professor of natural resources and interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at UMC, describes Janke as “an excellent role model of a conservation student. He is the third UMC student to receive this award from the Soil and Water Conservation Society and it is wonderful recognition for Tyler and our program. The $ 500 cash award will come in handy, too.” Daniel Weber of Crookston and Cheryl Isder of Little Falls are former award recipients from UMC, and both are employees of the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
“I’m very pleased with this special honor and value my experiences at UMC. Drs. Svedarsky, Bobby Holder, David Arscott, and Professors Wendell Johnson and Phil Baird have been especially helpful in launching my water resources career,“ said Janke, who is from Frazee, Minnesota.
Janke has been active with the UMC Natural Resources Club and has earned placement on the Dean’s Academic List. He has gained work experience with the East Otter Tail Soil and Water Conservation District, the NRCS at Perham, Minn., the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Detroit Lakes, and more recently as a project assistant with the Nature Northwest Project at UMC. In 2003, he received the Becker County Sportsman’s Club Scholarship and the John Polley Soil and Water Conservation Award at UMC. He plans to work as a watershed assistant this summer and is also considering graduate school possibilities.
Posted 03/15/2004