[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 26154]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   HONORING A SPECIAL COLORADO FAMILY

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                           HON. BOB SCHAFFER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 14, 2000

  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor a hard working 
family from Flagler, CO. Florence Fuller works with her daughter and 
son-in-law, Sally and Mike Santala on their farm in northeast Colorado. 
They survive Florence's husband, Eddie, who began the family tradition 
of finding new ways of conserving natural resources on their farm. It 
is that tradition that has earned the Fuller family the Farming 
Conservationist Award from the Colorado Association of Soil 
Conservation Districts at its 56th annual meeting in Grand Junction, 
Monday, November 13. Each year, the association awards the title of 
Conservationist of the Year to landowners who exemplify leadership in 
land stewardship.
  The Fullers first came to Kit Carson County in 1948 and immediately 
took a leadership role in their local community. Eddie Fuller helped 
organize the Flagler Soil Conservation District in 1951 and acted as 
the organization's Secretary-Treasurer for 16 years. The Fuller farm 
now encompasses 860 acres of cropland, 97 acres of hay meadow, and 
2,500 acres of rangeland at the base of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. 
It is because of the Fuller family's innovative work with rotational 
grazing techniques and other conservation methods that the Colorado 
Association of Conservation Districts has bestowed upon them such an 
honor, and it is because of their contributions to their community and 
the environment that I stand here to recognize them today.

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