DOES YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE A SCHOOL FOREST? Check out our LIST (pdf)

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New Environmental Literacy Plan

State Superintendent Tony Evers has asked the Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition to develop the state’s first environmental literacy plan to address the environmental education needs of Wisconsin’s pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade schools.  The Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education is a leader in developing this initiative!  Read on for more information!

 

NEW!!
Wisconsin High School Forestry Education Kits

They are ready and waiting and you can literally "check them out"!

Tree Planting for Climate Change

The Wisconsin DNR has teamed up with Polar Bears International for a 10-year project to encourage Wisconsinites to plant and care for trees. Marketing, education, funds for reforestation on private lands and grants to urban communities are components of the project.

Though it might not seem obvious at first, planting trees in Wisconsin helps conserve polar bear habitat in the arctic. Trees act as "carbon sinks" and absorb carbon out of the air and convert it into plant material. Trees sequester this carbon in roots, trunks, stems and leaves while they grow, and in wood products after they are harvested. That means planting trees, whether in a rural or an urban setting, helps reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain Arctic ice longer and to improve polar bear habitat and survival.

More info:  http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/forestry/PolarBear/

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"Why Forestry Education?"