The Seneca Valley High School team won the annual Butler County Envirothon held Tuesday at Alameda Park. Front, from left, are team members Morgan Blayner, Hannah Hale, Nicole Gloeckner, Jonnie Poepoe and Katy Kolor. Rear, from left, are Dana Hadley, teacher/adviser; Sheryl Kelly, Butler County Recycling; Emily Borcz, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; Randy Pilarcik, Pennsylvania Game Commission; and Leo Rosenbauer and Ryan Harr of the Butler County Conservation District.

A team of students from Seneca Valley High School won the annual Butler County Envirothon on Tuesday at Alameda Park.

Members of the team are Morgan Blayner, Hannah Hale, Nicole Gloeckner, Jonnie Poepoe and Katy Kolor.

Their teacher/adviser is Dana Hadley.

The Envirothon is designed to give students the opportunity to acquire and demonstrate their knowledge of environmental resources and interactive relationships between resources and human activities.

The goal of the Envirothon is to help students become environmentally knowledgeable citizens who are willing to work toward achieving and maintaining an equilibrium between quality of life and quality of environment.

The program emphasizes the importance of environmental sensitivity while stressing a need to achieve a social, ecological and economic balance.

The students were challenged in forestry, aquatics, wildlife, soils science and the current issue was urban and community forests.

Tests were conducted by personnel from the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Butler County Recycling Department, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Environmental Protection and the Butler County Conservation District.

Ron Fodor is manager of the Butler County Conservation District.