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School of Forest Resources


Home :: Education :: Prospective Students :: FTY 101

FTY 101 - Introduction to Forest Resources

Spend a week in the Maine woods learning field skills and discovering the diversity of the forest and its uses.

School of Forest Resources logo
FTY 101 activities

* Get into the woods and:

     -- Find your way with compass and pacing

     -- Use an axe and build a campfire

     -- Locate property boundaries

     -- Produce a forest-type map

     -- Complete an ecological inventory
* Perform trail maintenance and learn about
   helping people use the forest for recreation
trail maintenance
harvesting operations demo

* Visit a woodlot with a forester to observe

    -- How management plans are developed

    -- How harvesting operations are done
        responsibly
* Relate ecological findings to strategies for
   favoring natural regeneration of the forests
natural regeneration of forests
Students are Robbins Lumber mill * Visit the Robbins Lumber Mill and discover
    how modern operations let no wood go to
    waste
* Work with faculty in the woods School of Forest Resources faculty
FTY 101 students

Tanglewood Camp

* Work with and enjoy the company of others
   at the Tanglewood Camp

   --Great food!
   --Cabins with bunk beds
   --Field games
   --Campfires

* Start your college career with the    advantage of new friends and faculty
   contacts

All UMaine students and interested high school seniors are invited to attend.  The class will take place the week before Labor Day (August 24-29, 2008).  For more information, contact:

Dr. William H. Livingston
School of Forest Resources
University of Maine
5755 Nutting Hall
Orono, ME  04469

WilliamL@maine.edu
207-581-2990

FTY 101 – Introduction to Forest Resources  2007 Participants

FTY 101 class of 2007

 

 

 

 

School of Forest Resources
5755 Nutting Hall
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5755
Phone (207) 581-2841 | Fax: (207) 581-2875


The University of Maine
, Orono, Maine 04469
207-581-1110
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