ACCF's Spring Fair 2006 included about 80 students from Canyonville, Ridde, and Days Creek schools. Here they are gathering for the introductory presentation…
…and putting on name tags, and checking out to see who's here!
The Spring Fair was organized by local science teacher and ACCF educational consultant David GrosJacques. Here's Dave interacting with students on the concept of watersheds.
The man in the orange hat is Alan Baumann, former board member and ACCF site committee chair. He also played a big role in Spring Fair. But we mustn't let the students sit too long!
So some join Sandy Lyon from Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers as she arrives to sample Alder Creek just next to the gathering point.
And then students began to rotate among a wide array of stations. Here Joe Augsburger from Days Creek School is interacting with students around the topic of computers, data, and forestry...
While Alan Baumann takes students down to a recent harvest area in the ACCF site to discuss their management strategy and solicit student input on next steps…
and Chris Rusch, another Forest Service employee and ACCF board member, works with students on plan identification, one of her specialties.
Meanwhile, Rod Maddux has brought his portable sawmill on to the site to process some logs from a recent harvest. (No, students weren't allowed to operate the mill!)
The hard hat in foreground is a good reminder of why we have students wear hard hats out in the harvest area!
The ACCF site features ongoing examples of forest production, forest conservation…and forest recreation! Here, teacher Al Springer is encouraging students to try their hand at disc golf on a course set up in the meadow.
That one went pretty far!
Meanwhile, some students are hard at work identifying trees by their needles…
While others are learning the fine (and laborious) art of peeling poles…
which leads to a good opportunity to take a break and think awhile about all the things you can do in a forest!
There's never anything more fun, though, than a race down the meadow…
Unless you're being interviewed by the local TV station! Hats off to our youth for their ideas and energy during the ACCF 2006 Spring Fair.