Syracuse.com - 'Conservationist of Year' awards handed out recently by two CNY groups

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Honored were Bill Girvan, of Yorksville, and Mike Cusano, of Clay. Two local groups, the Oneida Lake Association and the Onondaga Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, announced their “Conservationist of the Year” awards at their recent annual meetings.- The Oneida Lake Association honored Bill Girvan, of Yorksville.Girvan’s resume includes being co-chair of the New York State Conservation Council’s Fish Committee, a member of the Oneida Lake Association’s board of directors since 2000, current Fish Committee chair and past president of the Oneida County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, certified instructor and past regional specialist for the Sportfishing and Aquatic Resource Educational Program for New York State and founder of CNY Youth Fishing Educators (a non-profit that teaches kids to fish). He’s also a member of the NYS Outdoors Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of inductees in 1983.- The federation honored Mike Cusano, of Clay, who was inducted into the Outdoors Hall of Fame this spring.Cusano sits on numerous boards of sportsmen’s organizations and was the spark behind the “Take a Soldier Fishing” program and the water chestnut eradication program on the Oneida River. Cusano, past president of the NY B.A.S.S. Chapter Federation, has also been instrumental in working to obtain additional access for fishermen through the statewide, year-round catch-and-release bass fishing regulation.

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