Nearly 200 Idaho students compete in Idaho State Forestry Contest
Forrest Bird Charter School sixth grader Ben Lopez inspects the needles on a white pine Thursday morning during the 41st annual Idaho State Forestry Contest at Farragut State Park. Close to 200 students from across the state participated.
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Timberlake High School freshman Lily Fry takes notes on a clipboard at the tree and plant identification station Thursday morning during the Idaho State Forestry Contest at Farragut State Park.
Ava Goetz, a junior from Orofino High School, peers up at the pines using a clinometer Thursday morning during the Idaho State Forestry Contest.
Sandpoint High junior Zane Walson measures a log at the scaling station Thursday morning during the Idaho State Forestry Contest.
Brougham Collins, a sixth grader from Forrest Bird Charter School, participates in the Idaho State Forestry Contest's rookie silviculture station Thursday morning.
The Vandal Jacks, a competitive lumberjack team from the University of Idaho, showed students the skills of using saws and axes Thursday at the forestry contest. From left: Spencer Stenmark, Josey Bouhanna, Nick Barrett, Ella Carroll, Chris Rau, Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Debbie Critchfield and Sam Bernard.
ATHOL — Wearing her Careywood Eager Beavers 4-H Club T-shirt and with a blue clipboard in hand, Timberlake High School freshman Lily Fry carefully observed the branch of a deciduous tree, taking note of its different characteristics.
“I think it’s going pretty good,” she said Thursday morning as she participated in the 41st annual Idaho State Forestry Contest at Farragut State Park.
“I’ve been participating since I was a rookie,” she said. “I just like seeing how many of the young people are interested in the forest and all that.”
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