Forest Report from St Maries, Idaho, U.S.A.

Written by the students of Heyburn Elementary School

Class or age : 3rd Grade

Name of Forest: Idaho Panhandle National Forest

Western White Pine trees

Our forest is made up of Lodgepole Pine, Douglas-Fir, Grand Fir, Western Hemlock, Ponderosa Pine, Western Redcedar, Western Larch, and Western White Pine.

Forester taking a core sample
from the Western White Pine

Ace and Laurie in St Maries, Idaho.

In July, Laurie Martin and her husband, Ace, spent a day in our school(Elanora Heights Primary School, Sydney, Australia) and showed various classes pictures of St Maries and other parts of Idaho.

After school resumed in Idaho, Laurie's class have been preparing a report on their Western White Pine for our Trees and Forests Project in addition to this forest report and they have sent a picture of Fall colours near their school that appears at the top of this page.