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WA Students Experience Forestry Careers
08 October 2015
Forest Products Commission (FPC) WA hosted to a Careers in Agriculture and Forestry program for sixty Year 9 students along with a number of staff, from high schools surrounding and feeding into Manjimup Senior High (included Boyup Brook, Northcliffe, Pemberton, Nannup and Manjimup itself) in the...
VIEWCelebrate National Tree Day 2015
17 July 2015
This year National Tree Day celebrates its 20th birthday with National Schools Tree Day on Friday the 24th of July 2015 and with the community at large on the 26th of July. Incorporating a 'celebrating trees' activity with your class is a great way of connecting your students to their natural...
VIEWForestLearning Competition Winner
16 May 2015
To celebrate the launch of the new ForestLearning.edu.au site, ForestLearning ran a competition for teachers to register their interest in receiving new forestry resources while standing a chance to win a new iPad. And the lucky winner was Nathan, a technology teacher from Kapunda High School. Nathan...
VIEWMore than 8,000 NSW students engaged in forest education in 2014
16 May 2015
Curriculum-linked school excursions, school holiday activities, university field trips and educational events such as science expos reached more than 8,000 students in NSW during the 2014 financial year. Figures recently published in Forestry Corporation of NSW's annual sustainability supplement show...
VIEWIntense Fire Season Last Summer in WA
16 May 2015
The summer of 2014-15 was very intense fire season in Western Australia, with more than 450 fires reported over the period in the south west forest region alone. Lightning strikes often associated with little or no rain, combined with constant frontal activities created the perfect...
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