Senate Resolution Honors 2015 WV Tree Farmer of the Year

A RESOLUTION COMMENDING AND CONGRATULATING

ALLEN M. GLASGOW

WEST VIRGINIA’S OUTSTANDING TREE FARMER FOR 2015

 

WHEREAS, over the years Allen Glasgow and his wife Mary have created Turkey Run Tree Farm, a 241 acre property on the Cacapon River in the northeastern corner of Hampshire County, West Virginia, and

WHEREAS, Allen Glasgow was selected as West Virginia’s Outstanding Tree Farmer for 2015 by the West Virginia Tree Farm Committee and its State Sponsor, the West Virginia Forestry Association, and

WHEREAS, this outstanding Tree Farmer made a formal commitment to sound forest management practices in 1983 by enrolling in the West Virginia Tree Farm Program, and

WHEREAS, Allen Glasgow is committed to the long-term productivity of his property by performing sustainable hardwood forest management through selective timber harvests, timber stand improvement thinnings, wildlife habitat improvement practices, improved road access and water resource enhancement practices, and

WHEREAS, from the very beginning Allen Glasgow’s passion has been to plant trees that would benefit the wildlife and produce a source of income in the future; planting paulownia, chestnuts, crabapples, pears, ash, yellow poplars, and other species at the rate of about 300 trees per year, and

WHEREAS, Dr. Glasgow’s Tree Farm is enrolled in the American Tree Farm System and he receives professional forest management assistance from Verso and FMA forester Jeffrey Bracken, and

WHEREAS, it is the policy of this Legislature to recognize and commend outstanding West Virginians, and

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, that we do hereby commend and congratulate Dr. Allen Glasgow, Hampshire County, West Virginia, upon being selected as the winner of West Virginia’s "Outstanding Tree Farmer Award for 2015 by the West Virginia Tree Farm Committee and the West Virginia Forestry Association and we extend to him our best wishes as they represent the State of West Virginia.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be furnished to Dr. Allen M. Glasgow.

 

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