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East Kootenay Highlights
Norma Blissett (Forest Educator)

Russ Hawkins, RPF, Tembec, shows a group of SD#5 and SD#6 teachers a beetle-infested lodgepole pine.

It has been a busy spring for forestry education in the East Kootenay. On April 29, a group of teachers from school districts #5 and #6 attended a forest field tour, where they looked at the impact of mountain pine beetle and the proposed forest harvesting in the Mark Creek Watershed and toured the Kimberley Nature Park, discussing the importance of fire in the grassland and forest ecosystems. Tembec’s forest harvesting plans were discussed as well as the impact of noxious weeds and forest encroachment on the grassland ecosystems of the Rocky Mountain Trench.

The Ministry of Forests conducted forestry week tours in the Cranbrook Community Forest and Wild Sight, a local environmental education group, has been providing forest ecology tours throughout the area.

Norma Blissett, industry-sponsored forest educator, has been taking students in to local forest areas and making classroom presentations on request. Topics for the classroom presentations have included: The Importance of Trees (grade1&2), Forest Machinery (grade 3), Planning for Forest Harvesting (grade 5and 6), Forest Ecology (grade 7), Riparian areas and Wildlife Trees (grades 6, 8 and 9), and Current Issues in Forest Management (grade 10).

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