This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners assess trees for signs of their health and recognize symptoms of unhealthy trees.
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners discover a range of forest-related careers that help to maintain forest ecosystems.
The trees in our communities provide many benefits: they improve air quality, store carbon, and conserve energy.
Through a variety of health indicators, learners assess the health of a forest area and see how soil scientists, wildlife biologists, arborists, and other forest professionals monitor forests.
Acting as foresters, learners grapple with decisions about how to manage a forest sustainably while serving different needs.
Students learn about the role of fire in forest ecosystems, examine issues of fire in the wildland-urban interface, and conduct a wildfire safety assessment in their community.
Students conduct a forest health checkup of a local forest area, will take forestry measurements, and will evaluate the ecological services provided by trees and forests.
