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 Youth and Forestry

Below are great resources for youth and educators that pertain to forest and natural resources:

  • Forestry as a Career
  • Activities and Forestry Facts
  • Educators

The following are great resources for those thinking about forestry as a career:

4-HMaryland 4-H
http://www.maryland4h.org

Some other useful 4-H links:

Activities in Forestry

  • Project Learning Tree( /www.plt.org/) is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in Pre-K through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it. PLT is a network of 3,000 grassroots volunteers and over 100 state coordinators that work in conjunction with teachers, schools, state agencies, foresters, businesses and civic organizations, museums, nature centers, and youth groups to provide workshops and in-service programs. PLT is administered nationally by the American Forest Foundation with the Council for Environmental Education. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service is the state coordinator for this program.


    Project WILD (www.projectwild.org/) is one of the most widely used conservation and environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school. Project WILD is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world. The program emphasizes wildlife--because of its intrinsic and ecological values, as well as its importance as a basis for teaching how ecosystems function. In the face of competing needs and pressures affecting the quality and sustainability of life on earth, Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible citizens of our planet. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division is the state coordinator for this program.

  • Maryland Envirothon: www.mascd.net/envirothon/index.htm
    If you are a teenager who is wild about nature and the great outdoors, consider joining your school's Envirothon team.  Envirothon is a fun and exciting way for high school students in grades 9-12 to learn about the natural world around us and earn scholarship money for college.  As an Envirothon team member, you will learn first hand from the experts about the many ways that all living things are connected and the complex environmental issues effecting the world today.  Along the way, you'll quickly discover that nature is even more outrageous and spectacular than you ever imagined.

  • Natural Resources Careers Camp (NRCC)
    Maryland's Forest Conservancy District Boards
    http://www.marylandforestryboards.org/nrcc.cfm

  • MD Forest Service Junior Ranger Patch Program
    Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
    http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/download/patch_program.pdf

  • How to Measure a Tree
    Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
    http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/kids/bigtrees.html

  • Family Activities
    American Tree Farm System
    http://www.treefarmsystem.org/family-activities

Maryland Forestry Information and Facts

 

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Last Updated: November 26, 2012