In early July, Keystone Wood Products Association (KWPA) returned to the Bloomsburg Children’s Museum to offer educational outreach as part of the museum’s manufacturing summer camp. KWPA joined the PA WoodMobile to educate campers about a wide variety of industry topics including, career opportunities, threats to the forests, and carbon-storing wood products. In the classroom, the students watched a presentation delivered by KWPA’s executive director, Steph Phillips-Taggart. KWPA’s educator, Amanda MacTarnaghan, also led campers through an outdoor sustainable harvesting exercise where she asked the students to pretend to be trees. She discussed nutrients needed for tree growth such as water, carbon, and sunlight. Amanda selected serval “trees” to be harvested and transformed into carbon-storing wood products. She discussed that the trees left behind have less competition for nutrients and, therefore; can be healthier and more efficient in capturing carbon. Campers enjoyed the exercise that combined creativity and science.
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