A newer entity is going to be this year’s Greene County Fair with lots of interactive opportunities.

The Greene County Conservation Board will have a presence for three days at the fair. Naturalist Jacob Fernholz says on Thursday there will be an archery range set up at the North Hall on the Greene County Fairgrounds for people to try out their skills for those who are eight and older  and shoot arrows at targets from 5-7pm. Conservation Board Director Tanner Scheuermann says along with himself, Fernholz and Spring Lake Park Ranger Joe Allen are all certified National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) which he is looking forward to even more future programming.

“What that allows us to do is to bring archery back into the school gyms and the PE programs. Where, prior to having this training, a lot of schools would say, ‘We’re not sure.’ Again, we had to go through some in-person training, obviously online training for these different things. And now, we’re NASP certified, so those are some of the other things that we’re planning on doing.”  

Scheuermann points out that on Friday, there is going to be a program in Clover Hall from 1-4pm related to birds of prey.

“We’re sponsoring Kay Neumann from SOAR (Saving Our Avian Resources). She’s a bird rehabber in the area and she’s going to bring some raptors and kind of talk about that and raptor rehab. So that’s something that we’ll be on-hand, you know, we’re kind of helping (to) sponsor that.”  

Finally, Fermholz adds that Greene County Conservation will have a booth setup on Saturday with some reptiles and animal artifacts for people to explore and touch as a way to learn more about local wildlife. All programs with the Greene County Conservation Board are free and open to the public.