Clintonville parcels accepted into School Forest Program
The Wisconsin School Forest program welcomed five new forest parcels recently registered to the Clintonville School District.
The new forest parcels include 19 acres of land adjacent to the middle school and high school, 20 acres at Olen Park, 5.5 acres at Bucholtz Park, 112 acres of the Lowney-Rohan Wetlands, and 13.63 acres of Clintonville's West Street Parks.
These five properties, in addition to the currently registered Clintonville School Outdoor Lab, give Clintonville students over 245 acres of forest land to use as an outdoor classroom. The school district has registered these school forests in partnership with the City of Clintonville and Waupaca County Parks and Recreation Department.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources forester Ben Baumgart is working with the school district to complete a forest stewardship plan for the properties. Registered school forests receive a variety of benefits. They are eligible to:
•?Receive free forest management assistance from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
•?Receive free seedlings from the state nursery program
•?Apply for grants from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB)
•?Receive assistance from the statewide school forest education specialist
School forests are remarkable educational resources that are available to:
•?Help schools meet state-mandated education standards
•?Serve as a focus to integrate environmental education into the school's curriculum
•?Provide hands-on, experiential learning opportunities
•?Strengthen school-community relations
•?Demonstrate sustainable natural resource management
•?Produce income for education activities
Wisconsin has a long and proud school forest tradition. The community forest law, which allowed schools, organizations, and municipalities to own property for forest management purposes, was passed in 1927. The first school forests in the United States were registered the following year at Laona, Wabeno, and Crandon. The program has grown considerably since its inception to include more than 380 registered school forests owned by over 220 school districts and private schools and now 8 higher education institutions.
The statewide school forest program is coordinated by the LEAF Program. As a partnership between the WDNR - Division of Forestry and the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education in the College of Natural Resources at UW - Stevens Point, the statewide school forest program provides resources to help school forests achieve their full potential.
For more information on the statewide program, contact Gretchen Marshall, Wisconsin School Forest
Education Specialist, at 715-346-2633 or gmarshal@uwsp.edu or visit
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/Schoolforests/index.aspx .
The new forest parcels include 19 acres of land adjacent to the middle school and high school, 20 acres at Olen Park, 5.5 acres at Bucholtz Park, 112 acres of the Lowney-Rohan Wetlands, and 13.63 acres of Clintonville's West Street Parks.
These five properties, in addition to the currently registered Clintonville School Outdoor Lab, give Clintonville students over 245 acres of forest land to use as an outdoor classroom. The school district has registered these school forests in partnership with the City of Clintonville and Waupaca County Parks and Recreation Department.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources forester Ben Baumgart is working with the school district to complete a forest stewardship plan for the properties. Registered school forests receive a variety of benefits. They are eligible to:
•?Receive free forest management assistance from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
•?Receive free seedlings from the state nursery program
•?Apply for grants from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB)
•?Receive assistance from the statewide school forest education specialist
School forests are remarkable educational resources that are available to:
•?Help schools meet state-mandated education standards
•?Serve as a focus to integrate environmental education into the school's curriculum
•?Provide hands-on, experiential learning opportunities
•?Strengthen school-community relations
•?Demonstrate sustainable natural resource management
•?Produce income for education activities
Wisconsin has a long and proud school forest tradition. The community forest law, which allowed schools, organizations, and municipalities to own property for forest management purposes, was passed in 1927. The first school forests in the United States were registered the following year at Laona, Wabeno, and Crandon. The program has grown considerably since its inception to include more than 380 registered school forests owned by over 220 school districts and private schools and now 8 higher education institutions.
The statewide school forest program is coordinated by the LEAF Program. As a partnership between the WDNR - Division of Forestry and the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education in the College of Natural Resources at UW - Stevens Point, the statewide school forest program provides resources to help school forests achieve their full potential.
For more information on the statewide program, contact Gretchen Marshall, Wisconsin School Forest
Education Specialist, at 715-346-2633 or gmarshal@uwsp.edu or visit
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/Schoolforests/index.aspx .
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