This year the St. George School sixth graders and  the Alternative Education students went to the youth forestry camp  to learn about making trails and telling the difference between various trees. What we are trying to  revive the overgrown nature trail behind our school into an outdoor learning center. We will try to start trail construction in spring of 2005 .Why? Because we would like an educational experience with the outdoors and nature.
          One of  Tanglewood's camps is a 4H Youth Forestry Camp. We took our three day and two night trip in October 2004. We learned how to build and manage a successful  nature trail and a wonderful  outdoor learning center. While we were there we learned about pacing, compass use, how to design a park, about a soil auger, we learned about land management, plot points, differences between trees, and measure distance.

These are the girls from the science teacher's cabin the Nest.

This is my Eastern Cottonwood tree.
 
Eastern Cottonwood tree slide show.