[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2691]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING LARRY LAYMAN

 Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, today I recognize Larry Layman, a 
Halifax area forester, who retired on January 1, 2003, ending a 30-year 
career of service to the Virginia Department of Forestry.
  Larry Layman graduated from Virginia Tech with a Forestry and 
Wildlife degree in 1973 and began his career with the Virginia 
Department of Forestry as a forester in the Farmville Regional Office. 
On August 1, 1974, he was promoted to Halifax County Area Forester.
  Mr. Layman has spent countless hours providing forest management 
advice, supervising planting crews, suppressing forest fires, working 
with crews in the application of herbicides and marking pine stands to 
be thinned. His ability to communicate proper forest resource 
management practices to forest landowners has resulted in greatly 
improved forest resources in the county.
  I congratulate Mr. Layman on his years of dedicated service to the 
people of Halifax County and the Commonwealth of Virginia and wish him 
well in his retirement.

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