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OCCA Celebrates Tom Salo

As Conservationist Of Year

At this hour, Tom Salo, a mainstay of the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society for decades, is being celebrated as OCCA Conservationist of the Year at the Otsego County Conservation Association's annual dinner in Templeton Hall, Cooperstown. Here, Salo is joined by, from left OCCA new executive director Leslie Orzetti, his wife Jo, and OCCA President Vicki Lentz. In recent years, Salo, of West Burlington, has been studying the
At this hour, Tom Salo, a mainstay of the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society for decades, is being celebrated as OCCA Conservationist of the Year at the Otsego County Conservation Association’s annual dinner in Templeton Hall, Cooperstown. Here, Salo is joined by, from left, the OCCA’s new executive director, Leslie Orzetti, his wife Jo, and OCCA President Vicki Lentz. In recent years, Salo, of West Burlington, has been studying means of protecting raptors, particularly golden eagles, in the region.  He has been promoting use of non-lead ammunition for deer hunting to reduce accidental lead poisoning of eagles.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

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