The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships in the summer of 2015 to students majoring in a conservation-related field.
The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation and to the Freehold Soil Conservation District, according to a press release. This will mark the 36th consecutive year that the Freehold Soil Conservation District will award college scholarships.
All applicants must be residents of Monmouth or Middlesex counties; must be entering their junior or senior year of college by the fall of 2015; and must be 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 and soil science.
Applications are available online at www.freeholdscd.org under Education, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 732-683-8500. The application deadline is April 24.