2019 Winter Newsletter

• Celebrating the Past Year & Looking Ahead• Supporter List• New Opportunities in Forestry Education• Fall Forest Field Day Recap

Eat and drink at Plank Town Brewing Company on April 10. Ten percent of sales from

5-8pm are donated to Forests Today & Forever!

Tiffany Roddy, President PRT Growing Services

David Jacobson, Vice President Gleaves Swearingen

Jonathan Powell, TreasurerKernutt Stokes

Wylda Cafferata, SecretaryCafferata Family Forest

Blake BacklundKPD Insurance

Jen ButlerHamlin Middle School

Dwight Dziezek, President Northwest Community Credit Union

Jason ColterRoseburg Resources

Ethan FielderCentury Forest Management

Robin StuddardWeyerhaeuser

Carly WatersMeadow View School

Michelle WinetroutInternational Paper

Bill WynkoopSeneca Jones Timber Co.

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Volunteer for Spring Forest Field DaysThis Spring will be our biggest For-est Field Day season in several years! We have over 1,000 students sched-uled to attend over 13 field days. This is an all-hands-on-deck effort to give local middle school students a memorable outdoor learning experience at a working tree farm. We appreicate the expertise offered by nearly 130 volunteers each year. Hope to see you this spring!

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Promoting Forest Stewardship Through Education

Winter 2019

Celebrating the Past Year & Looking AheadWe concluded another great year of forestry education in 2018. We reached 2,251 people with our programs de-signed to educate about forest management and inspire an appreciation for all that forests provide. Forest Field Days alone reached over 1,700 middle school students, with nearly 280 teachers and chaperones learning alongside them. Included in these numbers are students from three schools who newly joined the program in 2018! Outside of Forest Field Days, our educational efforts reached an addi-tional 344 individuals ranging from youth to adults, includ-ing university students and the general public.

With 2018 behind us, we look to 2019 and future possibil-ities. We are excited to try new things and grow our pres-ence. One opportunity is providing programming for out-door schools. With public funding (via Senate Bill 439) for public schools to participate in outdoor school, FTF is of-fering a menu of programs in forestry education that can be implemented at outdoor schools around the region. Our work in 2019 is to advertise the opportunity to schools highlighting the importance of forestry education to out-

Forests Today & Forever 2018 Program Data

Program Audience # Participants # Schools Volunteer Hours

Forest Field DaysMiddle school students

1,733 16 1,397

Forest Field DaysTeachers, chaper-ones

278 - -

Elementary Field Program 4th Grade Students 115 4 6

Teacher Program Teachers 14 10 2

High School ProgramHigh school students

31 1 -

University Tree Farm Tours University students 57 1 6

Adult Tree Farm Tour General Public 27 - 6

Public Program General Public 100 - -

TOTALS 2,251 32 1,417

Students dissecting owl pellets at Forest Field Days at the Wildlife Station.

door learning in Oregon, so that students may appreciate the variety of benefits that forests provide to our commu-nities. Another exciting endeavor in 2019 is expanding into high school classrooms. With our organizational mission of promoting forest stewardship through education, we seek to help students understand how they can be a part of a workforce that helps sustain forests for ecological, social, and economic benefits. We have submitted a proposal for grant funding to pilot a program in high schools working with CTE teachers and any teacher who wants to expose students to the diverse career opportunities forests pro-vide. Once funding is secured, we hope to reach 1200 stu-dents in the 2019-2020 school year, with plans for expan-sion into the future.

As always, we owe our success in 2018 to the many com-panies listed on the next page who provided financial sup-port, and to the hundreds of volunteers who donated their time and expertise to teach people about forest steward-ship. Thank you!

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Creslane 5th grade students exploring management units at a forest learning program at Bauman Tree Farm.

New Opportunities in Forestry EducationA group of 115 5th graders from Creslane Elementa-ry School visited Bauman Tree Farm for an educational program that introduced students to working forests. In classroom-sized groups, students rotated through four learning stations at the tree farm. Talk About Trees facil-itator, Mary Loftin, helped students identify different tree species in Oregon’s forests. Students then got to see and touch wood products and learn about how the differ-ent parts of trees are used. A highlight was a hike uphill to observe management units and habitat diversity. The program was complete with a lesson about fire. Amanda Stamper, The Nature Conservancy fire specialist, helped students understand fire as a management tool. John Deegan and Kyle Tripp, both forest officers with the Ore-gon Department of Forestry, showcased their water ten-ders and, taught students how to be responsible citizens to protect forests. This was our first 5th grade group, and we welcome more in the future! Special thanks to our volunteers and to the Oregon Forests Resources Institute who provided pre-teaching materials.

Thank You 2018 SupportersChampions ($5,000-$7,499)Moss Adams Roseburg Resources Seneca JonesSponsors ($2,500-$4,999)Aggregate Resource Indus-triesGiustina Land & TimberGiustina ResourcesGleaves Swearingen Jones & RothMurphy CompanyOlsson ElectricTeevin BrothersTimber ProductsPapé MachinaryRosboro Wildish

Associate Sponsors ($1,000-$2,499)ACME ManufacturingBlachly-Lane Electric Co-opCascade Timber ConsultingCoast Road ConstructionHershner Hunter Hull-Oaks Lumber IFA NurseriesJ Davidson & Sons ConstructionKernutt StokesLane Small Woodlands Assn.M.O. Nelson & SonsO& S ContractorsRundellStarfire LumberStarker ForestsStrata ForestryTerra TechTransition Management Tyree OilVogt Family TrustWeyerhaeuser Zip-O-Log Mills

Supporters ($500-$999)Auraco, FlakeboardBill WynkoopCommercial Thinning SystemsDave CramseyDrago Brothers LoggingGarrett ConstructionIreland TruckingJon AndersonJames HallstromL & B ReforestationLes SchwabLewis River NurseryMason Bruce & GirardNorthwest Community CUNorthwest Forest PropertiesNORTHWEST Land SurveyingOakridge Sand & GravelOR Forest Management ServicesPac Forest SupplyRandom LengthsRexius Forest ProductsRoberts Supply Shiloh ForestryWartenbee TruckingW.E. McArthur & AssociatesWestern Helicopter Services

Friends (up to $499)Bill McMahonBlake BacklundJen ButlerCarsonCole Resources ManagementDave Edwards Land SurveyingDavid JacobsonDick PowellDwight DzierzekKPD InsurancePRT Growing Services Plank Town Brewing Portable Rock Production Rainbarrel EnterprisesRick ZennRobin StuddardSteve BowersSteve & Wylda CafferataTiffany RoddyTom HappyWhitewater Forests

This list is accurate through 12/6/2018. Additional funding for 2018 may have been re-cieved after this newsletter went to print. Thank you for your understanding.

GrantsAOL: Friends of Paul BunyanOregon Forest Resources InstituteInternational PaperSociety of American Foresters, Emerald ChapterWeyerhaeuser Giving FundWeyerhaeuser WAVEWildlife Society, Oregon Chapter

878 students and 143 teachers and chaperones from four school districts explored the forest and learned about stew-ardship at Forest Field Days this fall. Thank you to the 77 volunteers who generously gave a combined 643 volunteer hours. Thank you to landowners, Tom Bauman and Lindsay Reaves, for donating their forestland. Thank you to Oregon Forest Resources Institute for providing the transportation funding that allows our program to remain free to schools. Finally, thank you to our sponsors and donors who provide the foundation of support that makes this program possi-ble. Planning is underway for Spring, and we can’t wait!

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Fall Forest Field Days Recap

Director: Beth KriskoEducator: Lindsay Reaves

For more information, see our website: www.ForestsTodayAndForever.org

Contact Beth Krisko: coordinator@foreststodayandforever.orgForests Today & Forever is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.

Top: Students measuring trees at the Timber Station during fall Forest Field Days. Bottom: Students feeling soils types at the Soil Station.

T h a n k Yo u , Vo l u t e e r s !2018 Fall Forest Field Days

BLM: Tim Argo, Teresa Coble, Randall Moring, Jan Robbins, Jessica LeRoy, Joe Lynch, Weston Miller, Emily Timoshevskiy, Sarah WerneckeCafferata Family Forests: Steve Cafferata, Wylda CafferataGeneral Trailer: Danny BivensGiustina Land & Timber: Cary Hart, Rebecca WindleGiustina Resources: Bruce Gibeau, Austin Lason, Kevin Merritt, Jeanne ShuttleworthInternational Paper: Rohnel Chancy, Kristin Headlee, Marge Huseman, Matt Jones, Steve Kin-naman, Jacob Martini, Bill McMahonKPD Insurance: Jeryl Coleman, Brandy LaraNancy Geyer Consulting: Nancy GeyerThe Nature Conservancy: Amanda StamperODF: Brian Peterson, Alex RahmlowOSU Extension: Lauren Grand, Emily McDon-ald-WilliamsTalk About Trees: Mary Loftin Roseburg Resources Co.: Jason ColterSeneca Jones: Julie Edwards, Ashley Jones, Jesse Kennedy, Kevin Tuers, Bill WynkoopStarker Forests: Dick PowellTimber Analytic: Tyler ClaxtonNRCS: Taylor Cullum- Muyres, Jason Martin, Kevin MacquoidUSFS: Cameron MitchellWeyerhaeuser: Jill Bell, Bethany Miller, Denise Lindly, Josh McCafferty, Lyndcy Patrick, Brian Spin-dler, Eric Sucre, Jeff Yost, Bob ZentgrafOther: Rita Adams, Michael Atkinson, Dan Baker, Daniel Lampe, Tom Bauman, Sue Bowers, Bob Johnson, Val Kime, Stephanie Kinnaman, Mike Mc-Dowell, Jordan Ryder, Denis VanWinkle, Kimberly VanWinkle

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