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Forestry Club To Host Field Day Competition February 10-11 (1/26/12)

MONTICELLO, AR — Forestry students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello will put their lumberjack skills on display at the UAM Forestry Club’s annual Field Day competition February 10-11.
            Field Day will begin February 10 at 4 p.m. with the first round of the knife and axe throw competition at Forestry Park west of University Apartments.  The competition will resume February 11 at 8 a.m. with the final round of the knife and axe throw, followed by pole felling, pole climbing, archery, chain throw, men’s bow saw, women’s bow saw, log rolling, men’s cross-cut saw, women’s cross-cut saw, Jack and Jill (men and women) cross-cut saw, log chopping, and birling.  All events except birling will be held at Forestry Park. The birling competition, which involves two people attempting to walk ( or run) each other off a floating log, will he held at Weevil Pond.
            Field Day is the culmination of a week long competition to select who will represent UAM at the 2012 Association of Southern Forestry Clubs Conclave competition March 15-17 at North Carolina State University.  UAM has won Conclave 31 times in the 54-year history of the event, including last year at the University of Georgia.
            During the week leading up to Field Day, UAM students will compete in a variety of technical forestry skills, such as photogrammetry, pole classification, wood identification, and wildlife identification.
            For more information, contact the School of Forest Resources at (870) 460-1052.

Foresters Field Day Flyer

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