Forest expo open to public this weekend
The Daily Inter Lake
The 16th annual Family Forestry Expo opens for the public Saturday at the Trumbull Creek Educational Forest west of Columbia Falls.
For students across Northwest Montana, the expo has been under way most of this week.
The outdoors and natural resources educational event typically brings in more than 1,200 fifth-graders from across the region, followed by the weekend public events.
This year's expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
There will be demonstrations of logging equipment, the Flathead Valley Community College Logging Sports Team, and livestock packing, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday and starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
A shuttle bus will provide transportation for tours of the Plum Creek Timber Co. plywood plant in Columbia Falls from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The expo's popular forest walk features multiple education stations along a trail just under a mile long and there will be displays in the main exhibit tent.
A free logging-camp lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
The expo site is two miles north of the junction of U.S. 2 and Montana 40.
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