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Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Announces Award Winners

HARRISBURG, PA - Marcus Schneck of Hamburg, PA, a successful outdoor journalist and avid outdoorsman and naturalist, has received the 2011 Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show Youth Mentoring Award for his efforts in promoting the outdoors and outdoor sports to youth.

Schneck is best known as the outdoors and nature writer for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, and his "Claws, Wings & Things" nature column, which features a question-and-answer section for readers. The column is used as a teaching tool by several biology classes in central Pennsylvania schools.

In addition, Schneck is the outdoors columnist for PennLines, the monthly magazine of the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association. He is also the author of more than two dozen books on nature and the outdoors and is a contributor to various other publications, websites and blogs.

For the past 10 years, Schneck has been a leader with the Boy Scouts of America, serving as a committee member for two different Cub Scout packs and two different Boy Scout troops, a den leader for Cub Scouts, a Webelos leader for Cub Scouts, a Scoutmaster for a Cub Scout pack and a Boy Scout troop. He is a counselor for approximately a half-dozen merit badges and a regular volunteer for events such as first-aid meets and Klondike derbies.

Schneck regularly presents workshops and programs on nature subjects at youth field days, summer fairs and festivals and similar events across the state. One of his most popular hands-on programs - constructing take-home pine-cone bird feeders - annually draws hundreds of participants at the Pennsylvania Garden Expo at the State Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg.

Over the years, Schneck has been instrumental in introducing youth to fishing, hunting and trapping, giving them their first exposure to the sports. Perhaps Schneck's biggest influence in the area of youth mentoring remains his relentless championing, through his columns and articles, of every youth and youth mentoring initiative that has come before the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state legislature over the past two decades.

The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Outdoor Youth Mentor Award is presented annually to an individual or organization in recognition of their demonstrated commitment to using their knowledge of the outdoors and outdoor sports to educate and help young people.

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Kermit Henning Receives Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Humanitarian Award

HARRISBURG, PA - Kermit Henning, of Mechanicsburg, PA, a successful outdoor journalist, photographer, avid hunter and conservationist, has received the 2011 Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Humanitarian Award.

Known to many as the host of WHTM-TV's Outdoors and outdoor columnist for The Burg newspaper, Henning is a life member, past president and chairman of the board of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association, past president and chairman of the board of the Mason-Dixon Outdoor Writers Association and a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America.

Henning has been an outdoors writer, photographer and lecturer for more than three decades. He has been published in numerous local, regional and national magazines and newspapers and is the author of A Foragers Field Guide and The Pennsylvania Sportsman Fish & Game Cookbook.


A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Henning is a graduate of Mansfield University and has done graduate work at Penn State University, Temple University, Millersville University and Shippensburg University.

After retiring from teaching English and German in the Harrisburg City School District, Henning spent a year teaching in an Inuit village in the Quebec, Canada Arctic. He has traveled, hunted and fished extensively throughout Canada, the Eastern United States and the Dakotas.

For the past 27 years, Henning has spearheaded the POWA Sportsmen's Auction held each year at the Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show. In that time, more than $350,000 has been raised to sponsor youth educational projects throughout the state. Thousands of young people have benefited from the money raised, through youth field days, conservation camps, Boy Scouts, shooting sports, fishing derbies, Audubon programs, public school projects and many more. In addition, the funds raised have funded scholarships at Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for journalism majors with an interest in communication and the outdoors.

The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Humanitarian Award is presented annually to an individual or organization in recognition of their demonstrated commitment to using their knowledge of the outdoors and outdoor sports to improve and support their community.

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Joseph Faux Receives Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Award for Conservation

HARRISBURG, PA - Joseph Faux of the Montoursville, PA area, a longtime conservationist, has received the 2011 Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Achievement Award for Conservation for his efforts to help the woodcock population in Pennsylvania.

A native of Catawissa, Joseph Faux has had a lifelong interest in the outdoors and began hunting American woodcock in the early 1970s. As his interest in woodcock developed into more of a passion, he sought ways to help the species by becoming involved in projects to create habitat and to educate the public about the habitat needs of the American woodcock.

In 2007, this passion led him to help found Woodcock Limited of Pennsylvania (WL of PA) - a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. WL of PA is a fraternity of hunters dedicated to the welfare of the American woodcock in Pennsylvania. They work with local, state and federal organizations to promote habitat and conduct woodcock research, habitat and harvest management in Pennsylvania.

WL of PA also engages in educational efforts to advance the public's knowledge of the woodcock and its management needs. More than 30,000 acres have been enrolled in the organization's Private Land Opportunities for Woodcock (PLOW) program. Through the PLOW program, efforts are ongoing to create and enhance habitat for the benefit of the woodcock and other like species in Pennsylvania.

As a result of all the efforts of WL of PA, the national Woodcock Limited (WL) will be resurrected at their Annual Meeting in March, 2011. It is expected that new state chapters of WL will be modeled after the PA organization Faux helped to create.

The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show Outdoor Achievement Award for Conservation is presented annually to an individual or organization in recognition of their demonstrated commitment to protecting and improving our outdoor resources and animal habitats.

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