Festival

by Stephanie Wiebe

Twenty lower mainland teachers
examined Northwest forestry oper-
ations last week as participants in
the Festival of Forestry program. .

Festival of Forestry is a non-
profit society of educators and
forest industry professionals. The
Terrace area tour, sponsored by
B.C.’s Council of Forest Industries
(COFI) and. hosted by Skeena
Cellulose Inc.(SCI), guided educa-
tors through the industry’s cycle,
from seedlings to forests and the
intervening steps of harvesting,

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ation.

“Our purpose is to increase the
teachers’ knowledge about the
forest industry," says Linda Coss

of COFI. "Teachers are fundamen-.

tal in passing on knowledge to
children." Educators need informa-
tion to educate, Coss explains. "A
teacher can’t know everything
there is to know about a subject."

Coss, a professional - educator
herself, says that lower mainland
schools don’t have access to for-
estry tours, unlike schools in other
parts of the province. Companies
in heavily populated areas are not
equipped to handle the amount of
school traffic generated by class-
room tours. This lack of first-hand
information creates an imbalance

Archie MacDonald of Skeena Cellulose explains
the technical aspects of sawmilling to teacher
Juaniia Haynes.

in the teachers’ forestry education,
according to Coss. The "Festival
of Forestry" tours remedy that.
"I’ve seen teachers’ attitudes
totally tumed around on these
tours."

Burnaby teacher Juanita Haynes
says that her forestry tour experi-

ence will benefit her Grade 5.

students. "We've had films in
class, but it’s different when
you're actually there. I’m surprised
at how much I’ve learned."
Haynes encourages role-playing
in her class at Gilmore Community
School. The students "become" a
community, holding town mectings
to plan the management of their
land. Assigned into various user
groups, students discover for them-

selves the difficulties involved in
land management. "At the end, ‘|
explain to them that adults are still
grappling with these decisions,
too."

Coquitlam teacher Armida Mc-
Dougall teaches environmental
studies to her Grade 7 students.
McDougall also organizes the.
district's Earth Day activities,
including the distribution of 23,000
seedlings. The tree nursery in
Thornhill, Pacific Regeneration
Technologies, particularly grabbed
McDougail’s attention. "I was
really impressed with that." Mc-
Dougall plans to take the informa-
tion gleaned from this tour to a
future Professional’ Development
workshop.

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SCI’s barker. Says Burnaby teacher Juanita
Haynes, “I’m surprised at how much I've learned”

The tour schedule filled three
days: touts of Skeena Cellulose’s
Terrace sawmill and Pacific Re-
generation’s Thornhill Nursery; the
following day was spent "in the
bush" visiting the Big Cedar log-
ging operation, silviculture trials
and SCI’s cottonwood plantation,
and managed and unmanaged

forests. The program continued
well into the evenings, featuring
local speakers such as Registered
Professional Foresters, an ecol-
ogist, and Terrace alderman Bob
Cooper. The final leg of the tour
took the group to Skeena Cellu-
lose’s pulp operations in Prince
Rupert.

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