Jr. Citizen Foresters
The RNeighborWoods gang held their first ever Jr. Citizen Forester class on Thursday, April 26, 2007, 4-5:30pm, at Quarry Hill Nature Center. And what a fun class it was!The free class was organized by RNeighbors and led by Jacob Ryg, the Rochester City Forester and Lyle, a Certified Arborist from Maier Forest & Tree.
The broad age range of small kids to youth spent the first part of the class learning all about the basics of trees, planting and proper care.
Then the outdoors adventure began! The class went outside and enjoyed the trees at Quarry Hill, literally. Instructors strapped them in safely and then hoisted the students up into the trees. The finale of the class was the group planting a tree together.Hopefully these official Jr. Citizen Foresters will love and protect trees throughout their lives. In twenty years they can visit the tree they planted at Quarry Hill!
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