(above) Mariko Yamasaki, U.S. Forest Service, leads a wildlife tour at the 2025 Forest of N.H. Teacher Tour.
Yesterday, the 2025 Forest of New Hampshire Teacher Tour began. This year’s class of 19 educators from across New Hampshire met at Joe Dodge Lodge in Gorham New Hampshire for introductions and a briefing on the next three days of forest management and forest products manufacturing tours. During these tours, participants will learn about the Project Learning Tree. Founded in 1976, this award-winning K-12 environmental educational program’s goal is “To advance environmental education, forest literacy, and career pathways using trees and forests as windows on the world.” The New Hampshire state Project Learning Tree coordinator is Jennifer Scarinza from Randolph, NH. She is leading the tours with assistance from the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association’s Program Director, Cheri Birch.
Over the next three days participants will learn about forest and natural resource management from scientist and biologists at the USDA’s Bartlett Experimental Forest; an active timber harvest on the White Mountain National Forest; Milan Lumber (N.H.’s largest spruce/fir sawmill); and the staff at the Chocorua Lake Conservancy.
The 2025 Forest of New Hampshire Teacher Tour is made possible with assistance and financial support from the N.H. Sustainable Forestry Initiative State Implementation Committee (SIC), the Adelard A. and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation and the dozens of companies and individual donors to New Hampshire Project Learning Tree.
We will post more photos and tour information on the NH Project Learning Tree and NH Sustainable Forestry Initiative websites over the next three days.
(below) Teachers inspecting a timber frame truss at Garland Mill.
