Jr. Explorers Club: Bringing Our Bigger Backyard to Life
The fire triangle lesson: understanding the necessary ingredients for most fires.
Whitefish Legacy Partners and the Whitefish Trail hosted a six week afterschool program. Elementary students explored nature and played games to learn about wildlife, plants, water, forests and more.
Discussing careers in the forest.
Fire triangle exercicse.
A huge thank you to the Flathead Forest Service and Flathead Audubon for letting us borrow their educational trunks and to Whitefish Lake Institute for teaching us about aquatic insects.
A demonstration with matches! to illustrate how forest fires move. Timber management is an essential component to healthy forests, and helps prevent forest fires.
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