Pennsylvania Game CommissionArmstrong County Wildlife Conservation Officer Barry J. Seth recently was presented with the National Wild Turkey Federation Wildlife Conservation Officer of the Year Award. Presenting the award are, from left to right: Game Commission executive director Carl G. Roe; Dave Burdge, NWTF Pennsylvania State Chapter president; Seth; and Board of Game Commissioners president Thomas E. Boop.

HARRISBURG — Butler native Barry J. Seth, a Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer in Armstrong County, recently was presented with the National Wild Turkey Federation Wildlife Conservation Officer of the Year Award.

Seth is the WCO for the western portion of Armstrong County, where he enforces the game and wildlife laws, completes wildlife studies and reports, and visits school districts, civic organizations and sportsmen's clubs to do educational programs.

He has been instrumental in the development of three Youth Field Days in Armstrong County, which provide youth a day of hands-on outdoors programs.

In 2005, Seth and his deputy WCOs successfully prosecuted one of the largest illegal deer cases in southwestern Pennsylvania. It involved citations to seven people with fines of more than $32,000.

In May, Seth was presented with the Shikar-Safari International Wildlife Conservation Officer of the Year Award, which is sponsored by Cabela's.

Seth lives in Worthington. He graduated from Butler High School and served in the Navy. Seth and his wife, Linda, have four children.