Newsletters

January 2007

Okanagan-Columbia Forest Education Highlights

• Grade 3 "History of Logging" Teaching Kit Gets a Makeover
• Fall "Introduction to Forestry" Camp Held at Silver Lake
• North Okanagan Fall Teacher Pro Day- "Lost in the Woods"
• Central Okanagan Fall Teacher Pro Day- "Forestry…Much More Than Just Trees"
• ForestEDWest III 2008 Conference Comes to BC
• National Forest Week 2007 Spring Presentations
• Under Construction: Resource Science 11/12
• Forestry Mini-Career Fair Coming to Spring ILA Trades Convention
• BCIT and UBC Forestry Recruiters Visit Local High Schools
• ILA's Forest Education Van- Fall School Tours
• Forestry Booth at Okanagan College Career Fair
• Grade 5 Forestry Kit Teacher Workshops Held
• Okanagan School Presentations & Field Trips

Zone Forest Educator Reports

• Cariboo
• West Kootenay
• East Kootenay
• Thompson

Expanding Our Roots

• UBC Forestry News/Guaranteed Admission Announcement
• Silver Lake Spring Break Kids' Camps
• Provider Pal Program Arrives in the Lower Mainland
• 10th National Forest Congress: "Focus on Canada's Boreal Forest"
• "An Overview of the MPB Epidemic on BC's Interior"
• New MPB Models Now Available from Ministry of Forest Offices
• Malaspina University College Forestry Students' European Tour
• PFC Science Week Presentations: "Mapping Beetle Means There'll Always be Toilet Paper?"
• New MPB Resource Kits Hit BC Secondary Schools
• Truck Loggers Association Post- Secondary Scholarship Program
• Interior Logging Association Scholarship Awards
• BCIT Launches New Wood Processing Program
• BCIT Forestry Students Win TLA Scholarships
• Temperate Forest Foundation West Coast Teacher Tours
• Canadian Wood Council Catapult Competition Comes to UBC
• Evans Lake Kids' Camp

Forest Education Resources

• Latest Addition to the Learn Forestry Website
• Feature Forest Education Book
• Elementary Forest Education Books
• New Secondary Forest Science Resources
• New Forestry Resources for Teachers
• Forestry Web Links for Students

Upcoming Events

• Temperate Forest Foundation Teacher tours: June 27-30, 2007 (Portland, Oregon)
• "Trails to Sustainability" 2007 Conference: May 24-26, 2007 (Kananaskis, Alberta)
• ILA Trades Convention (& Forestry Career Fair): April 20-21, 2007 (Vernon, BC)
• ForestEDWest III 2008- "Embracing Our Landscape": January 24-27, 2008 (Kelowna, BC)

Odds and Ends

• Questions
• Comments
• June 2007 Newsletter
• Submissions for the Learn Forestry Website