A $3,000 grant will provide the literal seed money for a conifer garden at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s living laboratory south of the Williamsport main campus.

The college’s School of Natural Resources Management received a $1,500 Jean Iseli Memorial Award grant from the American Conifer Society, honoring the late founder of Iseli Nursery, Boring, Ore. The nursery then supplied a funding match.

The successful grant proposal was submitted by Carl J. Bower, horticulture instructor. In his application, Bower noted that Penn College has won the Mid-Atlantic Regional Landscape Field Day Competition 13 out of 18 times, a testament to the landscape/nursery technology curriculum and its students — who learn to identify more than 500 plants during their tenure in the associate-degree major.

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