Local Conservation Groups Host Conservation Competiton for Students

This April, students in central and west central Illinois communities will compete against each other during the annual Environment competition. Shawnee Sheehan, research conservationist with the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District says the local competition will take place on April 8th in Macomb.

“That’s hosted by Warren, Knox, Henderson, Fulton, Hancock, and McDonough County Soil and Water districts. We all bring together students from each of the schools in our districts and they do a full day of competing, where they learn about aquatics, wildlife, soils, forestry, and then an interchangeable fifth category every year, and then they take tests,” says Sheehan. “Then the winner from our Land Use Council moves on to the state competition, and then the state up to national, which is in Canada this year.”

The Illinois Envirothon will be held May 5th and 6th in Monticello. Each year, 25,000 high school students across the United States, Canada, China, and Singapore compete in the Envirothon competition.