TOOLS OF ‘the trade look pretty good class learning about natural resources and forestry. Forests an By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN DOZENS OF Grade 5 students will be- come forestry workers this week, even if it’s just for a day. They’re heading to Kleanza Creek pro- vincial park to take part in National For- estry Week tours. Students will learn about logging, the life cycle of trees, fire protection and other issues from industry professionals. “Basically it’s a hands-on learning ex- perience for the children about the forest resource,” says Veritas School Grade 5 teacher Mary Kelly, who has been taking students on the field trips for 10 years. Grade 5 students are targeted because learning about natural resources is part of their curriculum. Students rotate through four stations: timber cruising, fire protection, tree planting and horse logging. “The children are actively participa- ting, they are becoming these people themselves,” says Kelly. “They become the’ planters, the cruisers, the fire pratec- tors, the horse loggers.” Student will hose down trees and put ‘out fires, Théy"Il"also: bore ‘Holes "i ina tree "so they can calculate ifs’ agé and see for themselves when the good growth years would have been. “When the people offer themselves, that’s when it becomes alive to the child- ren and the children actually become these people — they give them that oppor- on this group, a Veritas school Grade 5 open book tunity,” says Kelly. The Terrace Rotary Club provides transportation, the forests ministry pro- vides people and information and local professionals provide their time. “These adults don’t go ta school to be- , come teachers and I just step back and think how amazing and skilled they are at talking to the children and letting them ask questions,” says Kelly. Carl Johansen, a local forestry ministry tenures technician, has been organizing the program for 11 years and says the re-- sponse has been overwhelming. The program here is geared specifical- ly to give students an idea of what forest- ry workers in their own community are doing. “It’s a national program but each com- munity participates in its own way and in regards ‘to forest services each forest dis- trict participates in its own way,” Johan- sen said. The students in Mrs. Kelly’s class have been gearing up for National Forestry Week for weeks preparing class presenta- tions and doing. special projects. such. as making paper a ‘She -says ‘the: lessons: ‘learned’ th “the field are remembered for years. “They come home with little tree packages they can plant in their own own yards or their grandparents’ yards and if they are successful that tree is there years later,” she says. Forest changes will restore our By ROGER HARRIS MLA, SKEENA community First Nations — prosperity forest, and are con- entrepreneurs has been ace cess to the resource, These ENGINEERS _ Specializing in power, control, instrumentation § and mechanical systems Ph: (250) 638-0886 www.udi.com 4548 Lakelse Ave., Terrace, B.C. SALUTES NATIONAL Clem = FOREST WEEK! EX ERESS 5113 KEITH AVENUE TERRACE, B.C. Y8G 1K8 TEL: (250]635-0903 FAX: (250)635-0921 MILL LOCATION: 2903 Braun St. Phone (250) 635-5981 Fax (250) 635-7374 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 7, 2003 - C? 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