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NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release: July 24,
2003
Foresters help kids discover Boreal
Forest
High Prairie, Alberta—Foresters from Tolko Industries
and Buchanan Lumber of High Prairie went camping for a day with
more than twenty kids during the annual Boreal Forest Discovery
Camp.
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The camp was held July 14-18 at the Hart River
Dam in High Prairie for youth age nine to thirteen. Organized by the
Lesser Slave Forest Education Society, the week long day camp teaches
the kids about the Boreal Forest through a variety of games and activities
including hikes, forestry field trips, animal studies, bark carving,
canoeing, and nature crafts.
Tolko and Buchanan foresters were invited to show
the campers how to use tree measurment equipment and to properly
plant seedlings.
“Two of our summer students, Marc Carbonneau
and Ashley Williscroft, helped the kids use the various forestry
equipment to measure tree heights and get their age,” explained
Leo Foreseille, Tolko Logging Supervisor. “We talked about
our jobs at Tolko, what steps we take to ensure the trees we cut
will come back once we leave a cutblock, and how we use the wood
in all different forms, from OSB to paper to lumber for their houses.
"Bear safety in the bush was a popular subject
for the kids because they all wanted to know if any of us had been
attacked by a bear and what we did to scare the bears off,”
Foreseille added. “They were very interested in the use of
a bear banger, a flare used to scare off bears by creating a loud
bang like a gun."
The annual Boreal Forest Discovery Camps are sponsored
by Northern Lakes College and held each July in Slave Lake and High
Prairie, Alberta.
For more information:
Leo Forseille
High Prairie OSB Division
Tolko Industries Ltd.
Phone: (780) 523-2101
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