The Big Picture
While many parks may contain forests, a lot of the forests you may see may owned by individuals and families. Would you like to own a forest? What would you do with a forest if you owned one? What do you think is involved in caring for a forest? How are forests a natural resource?
In this series of activities you will get to learn some of the basics of owning a forest: keeping it healthy, making it strong and recognizing its potential as a renewable natural resource. Unlike many food crops that are renewed every year, a crop of timber sometimes only matures once in a lifetime! Caring for a forest as an investment can be a big job! You will learn some of the basics about caring for a forest as a natural resource.

Activity: What’s Eating You? Objective: Identify a variety of invasive forest insects, diseases and conditions that affect the health of forests Science Skills: Identification, Collect Data, Compare and Contrast, Evaluate, Make inferences. Life Skills: Wise Use of Resources, Disease Prevention Preparation Activities: What You Will Need: field guides, books/websites on forest and human health (see Explore More) Activity 1: Visit an ailing forest Asking the Right Questions: |
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Explore More
What’s Eating My Forest? WSU Spokane Tree Pathogens
Human Disease Directory for Youth
It’s All Connected:
Black Mountain Ranch
Marcy Bartelds
marcybmr@comcast.net
360-599-2758
Diane Garmo – local forest owner
Deming dianegarmo@aol.com
Tom Westergreen – local forest owner
Sumas/Everson 966-3605 tomwestergreen@hotmail.com
Interested in helping youth learn about this Natural Resource? Contact your 4-H Educator to be considered as an educational resource!
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