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Purpose
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The Nebraska FFA Forestry Career Development Event is designed to stimulate student interest and to promote the forestry industry as a career choice. It also provides recognition for those who have demonstrated skills and competencies resulting from forestry instruction in the agricultural education classroom.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Understand and use forestry terms.
- Promote an understanding of the economic impact of the forest environment and the forest industry to the American economy.
- Recognize sustainability (multiple use) opportunities in the forests.
- Recognize environmental and social factors affecting the management of forests.
- Identify major species of trees of economic importance to the United States and internationally.
- Identify and properly use hand tools and equipment in forestry management.
- Recognize and understand approved silvicultural practices in the United States.
- Identify forest disorders.
- Take a forest inventory.
- Utilize marketing management strategies.
- Recognize safety practices in forest management.
Superintendent(s):
Ann Powers
Forestry Lecturer
School of Natural Resources
apowers4@unl.edu
Pam Bergstrom
Agroforester
Nebraska Forest Service
pbergstrom2@unl.edu