Here are some recent ACCF events and activities, in reverse chronological order. Click on any
event title or photo to bring up a slide show in a
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 October 2006: Outdoor Education Day
On Friday October 13, a statewide teacher's in-service day, ACCF educational consultant Dave GrosJacques and a number of technical experts conducted an outdoor education day for teachers. ACCF also received its Hands on the Land Community Collaboration award in a special ceremony. The weather was great and everyone learned a lot about how to bring field-based activities into the elementary and secondary curriculum. |
 May 2006: ACCF Spring Fair
ACCF hosts an annual Spring Fair for local students, including a wide range of hands-on field activities to learn about forestry, forest and watershed conservation, and forest products manufacturing…plus have fun outdoors! The 2006 Spring Fair featured about 80 students from Canyonville, Days Creek, and Riddle schools. Here's a News-Review article on the event. |
 Fall 2005: ACCF Education and Site Management
A variety of ACCF activities took place in fall 2005, ranging from timber harvesting to native plant identification, from researching the history of the Alder-Jordan Creek watershed to learning about the complex decisions made today on public forestland access and recreation. Many of these activities took place on Proctor Memorial Forest (PMF), the home site for ACCF, though other activities included the entire 2300-acre Alder-Jordan Creek watershed in which PMF is located.
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 August 2005: Pioneer Days &"My Children's Forest"
ACCF sponsored a picture contest at Canyonville's Pioneer Days in August. The theme was "My Children's Forest," with young people imagining if they had a forest what it would look like. We had nearly three dozen entries over the weekend, from preschool through high school youth. Cash and honorable mention winners come from Riddle, South Umpqua, Canyonville, Myrtle Creek, and Days Creek, and as far away as Sacramento! We could all learn something from their enthusiam and creativity.
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 July 2005: Summer Area Teacher's Institute
Our first of an expected annual series of summer institutes for local teachers was held in Canyonville Middle School, the ACCF site, and the Alder-Jordan Creek watershed from July 25-28. The six teacher participants came from throughout Douglas County, and were taught by John Punches, Douglas County Extension Forester and OSU Associate Professor, and Jim Proctor, Professor and Director of the Environmental Studies Program, Lewis & Clark College. Many other technical volunteers helped as well. We are grateful to the Hands on the Land Program and the Oregon Forest Resources Institute for their support. |
 November 2004: Bland Mountain Fire Site Tour
As the first of three activities connected with ACCF's Fall Educational Forum, participating junior high and high school students from Days Creek High School, Canyonville Junior High School, and Riddle Education Center toured the Bland Mountain fire site between Days Creek and Tiller with foresters from the Bureau of Land Management and ACCF. The objective was for students to learn firsthand about the varied terrestrial and hydrological effects of fire in forests. Bland Mountain is the location of a roughly 5000-acre fire in August 2004, following a 10,000 acre fire on the site in 1987. For a background on the recent Bland Mountain fire click here, and here for a newspaper article covering this site visit. |
 August 2004: Natural Resource Science Camp
Conducted by Al Springer, Director of Riddle Education Center, and with teaching assistance from Leonard Schussel (Umpqua Community College) and members of the ACCF Board of Directors, nearly two dozen junior high and high school youth participated in a natural resource science camp on the ACCF site. Students learned about tree identification, forest inventory and ecology, and carbon sequestration. They developed skills in map and compass and orienteering, navigating a route through the forest. Students also learned about riparian area ecology, and with the assistance of Marv Mizell and other community volunteers developed skills in trail and footbridge construction, producing something of value to other visitors to the ACCF site. |
 August 2003: Douglas-Fir Beetle Kill Tour
Dave Overhulser, Oregon Department of Forestry State Entomologist,
led this field inquiry in which we attempted to answer
the question: why are many Douglas fir trees dying on the east
side of the ACCF site, and what is the role of beetle infestations?
We learned that Douglas firs are marginal on south-facing, poor-soil
slopes in the forest, and the drought over the last several years has left them
susceptible to beetle infestations, primarily flatheaded fir borer (Melanophila
drummondi) but also possibly Douglas-fir beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae).
In short, the problem is not beetles but climate and tree species: these
areas are more suitable for a Ponderosa pine/incense cedar mix than the current
Douglas fir/incense cedar mix. |
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