The Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District has received the Buffer Achievement Award for Area 8 in Missouri.
The award is presented by the Missouri Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts in conjunction with the National Conservation Buffer Council.
The goal of the awards program is to promote conservation buffer areas to help meet the national initiative to implement 2 million miles of buffers by the year 2000.
Scott County district manager Kay Dover and board member Ken Westrich accepted the buffer award.
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