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Welcome to the
Carroll County Foresty Board |
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*Future of Forestry: The Next Generation Seminar
January 11 and 12, click here for more information
*Interested in persuing a career in Natural Resources? The Carroll County Forestry Board will be providing scholorships to local high school students who are interested in attending the Natural Resources Careers Conference July 20-26, 2008. Click here for an application, if you would like to donate to the scholoship fund, or to learn more about this conference please contact us.
About Us
The Carroll County Forest Conservancy District Board advocates sound forest management practices to preserve the forest as a resource, promote tree planting and forest conservation, and help educate young people about trees and forests.
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Trees Are Valuable Trees are important for their lumber, but their value goes much further. Living, healthy trees provide people with shade for our homes and parks, beauty to gladden our hearts, and inspiration from their sheer size and majesty. Children delight in the thrill of soaring high on a rope swing from the sturdy limb of a tree. Some trees even feed us with apples, cherries, peaches, walnuts, and an abundance of other fruits and nuts. Forests Help People and Wildlife Forests protect our precious soil from erosion, and even create new topsoil. They keep our water supplies clean, pure, and abundant, allowing streams and lakes to support healthy populations of fish, amphibians, and other wildlife. Birds, mammals, and other creatures find food, shelter, and nest sites in the forest. Forests produce oxygen for us to breathe and clean our air of harmful pollutants. Take a walk in the woods and enjoy the sights, smells, sounds, and activities of the many creatures who live there. Forests are More than Trees Often we really cannot see the forest for the trees, for there is much more to a forest than just its bigest members. Cardinals, chickadees, and Baltimore Orioles nest in the trees, deer browse on the understory shrubs and plants, and squirrels dash through the branches, chattering as if to scold us for intruding. Wildflowers carpet the ground and nuts and leaves crunch underfoot. Turtles, frogs, and salamanders make their homes here. Underground, worms and beetles dif their tunnels alongside chipmunks and mice. Mushrooms, lichens, insects, and spiders each have their role to play. The trees are just the beginning. |
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Summer 2008 Natural Resources Career Conference July 20-26 |
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