Two with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center were among those awarded at the Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Society awards night on Wednesday, June 12, in Scottsbluff.
Bijesh Maharjan and Extension Educator Gary Stone received the Commendation Award which recognizes SWCS members for service to their chapter or council of chapters.
“I am honored to receive this Commendation Award from the SWCS Nebraska Chapter,” said Maharjan, Nebraska Extension soil and nutrient management specialist at the Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center (PREEC) in Scottsbluff. “I work closely with local and regional stakeholders to improve soil health and enhance productivity in diverse cropping systems in dry and irrigated land.” He added that challenging soil conditions, changing climate, unpredictable and severe weather events, and the dwindling quality and water supply require all of us to intensify our efforts to conserve finite natural resources such as soil and water. “My research, extension, and education program has always focused on natural resource conservation.”
Stone is a Nebraska Extension water and integrated cropping systems educator at PREEC. He promotes and educates producers about the importance of irrigation water management utilizing Evapotranspiration Gages (ET) to determine crop water use. “I was honored to receive the award. My work with water management is important to be because clean water is a finite resource, and we must manage it with the utmost diligence. Water is life, life is water.”
More details at go.unl.edu/t9se.
