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Mark Kimmel, longtime leader of York County Conservation District, retiring York Dispatch In 1985 when Mark Kimmel joined the York County Conservation District, he was one of only three full-time employees in the department, and there wasn t much public awareness about ecology and the protection of natural resources. A lot has changed in 36 years. Kimmel, who is retiring from his post as manager of the county s conservation district, will leave behind a staff that s grown to 23 people, all working in an increasingly complex field. When I started working to do farm plan mapping, you had to wait two weeks to order in the plan map from Colorado through the Soil Conservation Service back then, he said. Now, we have GIS and the plan maps are at the tip of our fingers, but it probably takes us longer with all the additional paperwork requirements we’ve added to it over the years.

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