FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2001
Agriculture & Natural Resources Safety and Security ---the responsibility of farm and city people
Farm-City Week
November 16-23, 2001
COLUMBIA---The words “safety” and “security” have taken on whole new meanings since the events of September 11, 2001. Everyone in America---in South Carolina---has become more united in the past few months---more courteous ---more giving---and more understanding.
Farm-City Week, an annual celebration during the week of Thanksgiving, focuses on the interdependence of rural and urban people. After the terrorist strikes on America, rural and urban people developed a greater awareness of how much they depend on each other. Many of us took for granted our way of life before these heinous acts occurred. We were concerned about how well we, as people of this state and nation, cared for the land, air, and water. We were worried that our forests and wildlife would succumb to our own undoing. The fact that terrorists could somehow, destroy those gifts of agriculture and nature never really occurred to us. But, now, we are all alert to what could happen. Security of agricultural and natural resources has become more important than ever to everyone---to those who live in the city as well as to those who live on the farm.
Because of this new awareness for security, the group called Agriculture and Natural Resource Communicators for the Environment (ANRCE) is focusing on issues related to homeland environmental conservation and preservation during Farm-City Week. Partners in ANRCE include: Clemson University Regulatory and Public Service, Palmetto Farm Credit, SC Department of Agriculture, SC Department of Natural Resources, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, SC FFA, SC Farm Bureau, SC Forestry Commission, and the USDA’s-Agriculture StatisticsFarm Service Agency, SC Natural Resources Conservation Service, SC Rural Development, and SC National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the US Forest Service.
For more information about ANRCE, contact Dr. Neil Ogg, Regulatory and Public Service, Clemson University, 864-646-2120 .