Two UAF natural resources students were awarded $1,000 scholarships for spring semester by the UAF Reindeer Research Program. The Lawrence Tingook Davis memorial scholarships were granted to Nathan Heeringa, a freshman from Bellingham, Wash., and Kirsten Woodard, a senior from Palmer. For the competition, students wrote essays about Alaska's natural resources.
The award is named in honor of Lawrence Tingook Davis, who was born in Deering, Alaska. He served as president of Sitnasuak Native Corporation, as a councilman on the Nome City Council, and as an Alaska state representative. He worked on the establishment of rural Alaska community colleges and received historical recognition for the Iditarod Trail. Mr. Davis was so well recognized for his diverse contributions to education, his community, state, and country, that he was invited to the White House to meet President Ford.
Mr. Davis strongly supported agriculture, education, and the Reindeer Research Program through his commitment to education. He founded the Reindeer Herders Association and was knowledgeable about subsistence hunting, fishing, gathering, and gold mining, as well as reindeer herding.
Mr. Davis was very supportive in helping establish the reindeer research herd at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm, and even supplied the university with deer from his herd. Mr. Davis also helped establish the current and future direction of range management, meat production, and reindeer nutrition research conducted by the Reindeer Research Program. He died in 2006.
The UAF Reindeer Research Program's Lawrence T. Davis Memorial Scholarship Fund is supported by proceeds from the Fairbanks Experiment Farm research herd. Scholarships are awarded as funds allow.
Further reading:
Read Nathan Heeringa's essay, Alaska's Natural Reources (PDF).
Read Kirsten Woodard's essay, Rural Alaskan Villages and the Development of Renewable Resources (PDF).
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