Outdoor educator celebrates decades of service at Family Forestry Expo
Teresa Wenum, recently retired Conservation Education Specialist with the U.S. Forest Service, at Trumbull Creek Educational Forest on Thursday, May 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Fifth-grade students in teacher Olivia DeJana's class at Cayuse Prairie School inspect the bottom of Trumbull Creek with viewing tubes at the fisheries station at the Family Forestry Expo on Thursday, May 8. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
The Trumbull Creek Educational Forest typically provides a peaceful respite, but last week saw the secluded patch of woods overflowing with the raucous energy of hundreds of fifth graders.
Over the course of five days, about 1,400 students from schools across the Flathead Valley attended the 36th annual Family Forestry Expo. The event is a collaboration of regional government agencies, local lumber mills and conservation nonprofits and features educational activities and interpretive programs on a variety of topics related to forest health and management.
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