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May 16, 2006
FORMER ODNR DIRECTOR FRANCES BUCHHOLZER RECEIVES
LOUIS BROMFIELD SOCIETY AWARD
COLUMBUS, OH - The spirit of Pulitzer Prize winning-author Louis Bromfield lives on this year with presentation of the Louis Bromfield Society Award to Frances Seiberling Buchholzer, former director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The annual award is given to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions in literature, conservation or agriculture.
“Fran Buchholzer is most deserving of this distinction,” said ODNR Director Sam Speck. “As a conservationist, educator and outdoors enthusiast, no Ohioan today better demonstrates the ideals of Louis Bromfield and Malabar Farm.”
Buchholzer served as the ODNR director from 1991 through 1994. Since that time, she has continued to be an active advocate for conservation education, responsible public policy toward resource management and environmental protection. In 2003, Buchholzer received the highest conservation award in the state with her induction into the Natural Resources Hall of Fame.
The Malabar Farm Foundation has presented the Louis Bromfield Society Award each year since 2000. Previous recipients include former Malabar Farm Manager Max Drake, former Malabar Farm Foundation Chairman Ralph Cobey, and past ODNR directors Robert Teater and Joe Sommer.
Malabar Farm State Park in Richland County is Ohio's only state park that is also a working farm. Louis Bromfield created the farm in the 1940s to demonstrate his then-progressive ideas about soil conservation and sustainable farming practices. Today, many of those practices are used world wide as accepted agricultural techniques. The farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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