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Photo of Herb Andrick Herb Andrick is the new Assistant State Conservationist−Programs

Herb Andrick, a native West Virginian, grew up on a family farm near Palestine in Wirt County. He received an Associate in Science Degree in 1979 from Potomac State College followed by a BS degree in Resource Management
in 1981 from West Virginia University.

Herb started his career with the SCS as a Student Trainee in 1980. He worked as a Soil Conservationist in the Philippi and Harrisville Field Offices before becoming the District Conservationist in Philippi. USDA News featured Herbs work to develop the rubber tire trough as a conservation practice. Herbs work with a deaf farmer appeared in Soil and Water Conservation News. Herb came to the West Virginia State Office in 1996 as the FOCS/GIS Specialist. In 2003, he became a Resource Conservationist working with the Farm Bill. Herb is now the State Conservationist for Programs, a position he was acting in since Jim Piper’s retirement.
Herb is a member of the WV Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and held offices of Treasurer, President-elect, President, and Past President. He served on the National Program Committee for the 2001 Nation SWCS Meeting.

Herb and his wife Debbie have four children: Scott 32, Courtney 24, Caleb 15 and Elizabeth 14 along with three grandchildren: Ivy Rose 5, Nathan 3 and William 11 months.

Photo of Greg Greg Stone is the new Assistant State Conservationist−Field Operations in the South Area Office

Greg is a graduate of West Virginia University receiving a Bachelors of Science in Agriculture in 1980. In 1997 Greg graduated with a Masters of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained as Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served the Powhatan Point Presbyterian Church in Ohio as Pastor for 12 of his 15 years in the Northern Panhandle.

Before going to the Northern Panhandle as District Conservationist, Greg started his career as a Student Trainee in Clarksburg. Greg served as a Soil Conservationist in Keyser and in Kingwood before moving to Caldwell, Ohio to take his first District Conservationist’s job.

Greg and his wife Beth have five children (3 boys and 2 girls) and three grandchildren

Photo of Bill Bill in the desert.

Bill O'Donnell is the new Assistant State Conservationist−Operations

Bill in the Afghanistan desert.

  • Born August 22, 1957 in Bakersfield, California.
  • Graduated from high school in 1975.
  • Attended Bakersfield Junior College for 2 years, majoring in fun.
  • Took three years off from college to fight forest fires and work at ski resorts, more fun.
  • Went back to college at the University of Nevada - Reno. Graduated in 1983 with a degree in Range Management.
  • Started with the agency in 1983 at Reno, Nevada doing range condition and soil/range site assessment work on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.
    1984 was reassigned to the Caliente, NV FO to provide soil/ range site assessment work on the Lincoln County South soil survey.
  • 1986 was selected as a DC in Fossil, OR. To get to Fossil you know exactly where you are going, or, you're lost when you got there and need directions to some place else.
  • 1990 transferred to a DC position in La Grande, OR.
  • 1992 promoted to the DC position in Richfield, UT. My offices covered 6 counties in the central part of the state.
  • 1996 transferred to the DC position in Las Vegas, NV. The fastest growing community in the nation. LV averages 7,000 new residents each month. To keep up with the student population the school district has to average building 12 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 1 high school each year.
  • 2001 promoted to the Assistant State Conservationist - Field Operations position in West Union, IA, the prettiest part of the state.
  • August 2004 - February 2005 detailed to Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. I worked with the central government Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources in 5 northern provinces. My residence while in Afghanistan with the British Army. There were 10 different nations represented at this Provincial Reconstruction Team military compound. (see agriculture photos below).
  • April 2005, started here. Family will arrive here after school ends in Iowa, sometime the first part of June.
Photo of cotton field Photo of flood control project area Photo of farmer and plow Photo of wool spinning
Afghans picking cotton. Proposed flood control project site Wooden plow and farmer Wool Spinning Wheel and Combing Demo Andkhoi Intl Carpet Exhibit

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