Newsletters

June 2006

June 2006 Newsletter published by: Debbie Sluggett Forest Education Liaison, Okanagan-Columbia Zone for: Bell Pole Co., Canwood Furniture, Downie Timber, Gorman Bros., Greenwood Forest Products, Louisiana-Pacific Canada , Ministry of Forests- BC Timber Sales (Vernon), Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation, Selkirk Timber Co. , Structurlam Products, Tolko Industries and Weyerhaeuser Co. Debbie Bazett Forest Education Coordinator Council of Forest Industries, Southern Operations

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Letter from the Publisher

Okanagan/Shuswap Forest Education Highlights

• "CLEM" - A Journey into BC's Logging Industry"
• "Our Living Resource-The Forest"- Grade 5 teaching resource reprint
• Promoting Forestry as a Career Choice At Local High Schools
• Other Okanagan-Columbia Career Events
• Students Compete in Environmental Mind Grind Challenge
• Forest Education on Display at COFI 2006 AGM- "A World of Opportunity"
• A Look at Interior Logging Association's 48th Annual Trades Convention
• Local Forest Educators Receive Minister's Award of Excellence
• National Forest Week 2006- "The Amazing Diversity of BC's Forests"
• Introduction to Forestry - BCIT/ UBC Partnership at Silver Lake Forestry Camp
• Introduction to Forestry - Silver Lake Forestry Camp Photo Collage
• ILA Forest Education Van School Tours
• Field Trips and Classroom Presentations

Cariboo Forest Education Highlights

• Forest Education Van visits 2006 "Women of Resource Communities" conference

East Kootenay Forest Education Highlights

• East Kootenay forest education programs

West Kootenay Forest Education Highlights

• Presentations celebrate National Forest Week

Thompson Highlights

• Forest educators covering the province's southern interior

Expanding Our Roots

• UBC Hosts Teachers' Forestry Workshop
• UBC ForesTree Summer Camp for Kids
• Wood Products Processing (UBC) Celebrates 10 th Anniversary
• Summer Camp at Silver Lake
• Second Annual WoodWORKS! Gala
• Festival of Forestry Teacher Tour Another Resounding Success
• Graduates of Forestry Programs Needed & In Demand
• Canadian Women in Timber News
• Women in Resource Communities 2006 Conference

Forest Education Resources

• Learn Forestry Website- New Additions- Gr. 5 kit, CLEM
• Forest Activity Books from Saskatchewan Forestry Assoc.
• Feature Forest Education Book
• New Secondary Forest Science Resources
• Forestry Weblinks for student research

Upcoming Events

• Westland Summer TV Schedule- Pine Beetle Epidemic, Forest to Grasslands..
• UBC ForestTree Summer Camp
• ILA's Forest Education Van Summer Tour (BC communities & Provincial Parks)
• CWIT 2006 AGM

Odds and Ends

• Questions
• Comments
• January 2007 Newsletter
• Submissions for Learn Forestry Website