Educational
Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators working with students from pre-kindergarten through high school. It uses the forest as a "window" into the natural world, helping young people gain an awareness and knowledge of the environment and their place within it. Please click here to learn more about Project Learning Tree.
Teachers Conservation Workshop (TCW) is a free week long workshop for educators who want to incorporate the environment into their everyday curriculum. This workshop is designed with Teachers in mind with hands-on-activities and field trips allowing you to learn the latest techniques in forest management that can be utilized in the classroom. Please click here to learn more about the Teacher's Conservation Workshop.
University of Tennessee Extension works with the local governments, community leaders, and individuals to address problems and issues that help improve people lives. Extension is engaged in a board range of educational programs in agriculture, community resource development, nutrition, health, family issues, lawn and garden, and youth development.
University of Tennessee Website:
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/default.asp
The forests covering more than half of Tennessee provide clean water, wildlife habitat, natural beauty and recreation. They raise our quality of life, promote tourism, and support a renewable forest products industry & employing 78,000 Tennesseans.
Tennessee Division of Forestry protects this resource and promotes its sustainable use through science based forest management.sustainable use through science-based forest management.Sustainable management emphasizes different uses of the forest in different situations, but always avoids destructive exploitation or lost opportunities due to neglect or ignorance. Specific division programs include: Fire Detection, suppression and prevention,urban and community forest assistance, insect and disease control,statewide forest inventory and analysis, water quality protection, assistance to non-corporate landowners, forest seedling nurseries, forest products marketing information, genetic tree improvement, and state forest system management.
Tennessee Division of Forestry Website:
www.tennessee.gov/agriculture/forestry/index.html