Eric Sucar

Scholarships will reward those committed to conservation

The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships to students majoring in a conservation-related field in the summer of 2016.

The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer Scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation.

Applicants must be a New Jersey resident of Monmouth County or Middlesex County; entering their junior or senior year of college by fall 2016; and majoring in a field related to conservation including, but not limited to, agriculture, environmental education, environmental science, environmental studies, forestry, geology, landscape design, resource management or soil science.

Applications are available at www.freeholdscd.org under Education, by emailing [email protected] or by calling 732-683-8500.

Application deadline is April 22.