Sherwood and Jean Hoyle of Scranton were awarded the 2017 Izaak Walton League Windbreak Award at the Greene County Soil and Water Conservation District’s (SWCD) February meeting.
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Every year on behalf of the state of Iowa, the SWCD presents the Izaak Walton League Windbreak Award to a well-deserving windbreak owner. The Hoyles received the Farmstead Windbreak Award (five years or older). The Hoyles have an eight-row windbreak consisting of Colorado blue spruce, Austrian spruce, concolor fir, hackberry, amur maple and Redosier dogwood.
Persons who want to nominate a windbreak for the 2018 award can notify the Greene SWCD at 515-386-3817. The 2018 deadline is June 1.