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Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests

Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests module uses forest related examples to help students better understand the complexity of environmental issues. Students examine issues objectively, collect and analyze data, and become involved in decision making experiences. They learn how to present arguments clearly and how citizens can play a role in forest management decisions.

Here's what's inside:

  • Introduction

  • Background Information – Forests: Issues and Answers

  • Student Activities:
    1. What's a Forest to You?
    2. Case Study: Old Growth Forests
    3. Tough Choices
    4. Who Owns America's Forests?
    5. Balancing America's Forests
    6. Squirrels vs. Scopes
    7. Words to Live By
    8. Take Action!

  • Appendices:
    1. Bibliography
    2. Glossary
    3. A History of Forest Legislation
    4. Old Growth Articles and References
    5. Forest Facts and Figures
    6. PLT Mission, Goals, and Methods
    7. PLT Conceptual Framework

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