From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Science Museum of Minnesota)
Change in the Border Forest:
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A 5 or 9-day Institute in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness (BWCAW) of Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
www.smm.org/museum/education/Programs/ProfDev/bwcaw
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The Science Museum of Minnesota is offering a unique wilderness
institute for teachers interested in innovative ways of
integrating the forest ecology of the BWCAW and Quetico region into their
classroom.
Session I: July 20 - 24
Optional wilderness extension July 24 - 28
Session II: July 30 - August 3
Optional wilderness extension August 3 - 7
Cost $400 for 5 day institute
$700 for 5 day institute + 5 day wilderness extension
Graduate Credits available.
Cost includes all food, lodging and equipment.
Location: Wilderness Canoe Base, Sea Gull Lake, Minnesota
The forest of the BWCAW may be serene, but it is not static.
Forests change, and the fierce windstorm that swept through the
area on July 4, 1999 is a dramatic example. In just 40 minutes,
winds exceeding 90 miles per hour blew down some 30 million trees
causing one of the largest blowdowns in recent North American
history, covering about 600,000 acres (242,800 hectare) in Minnesota
and Ontario. What type of forest renewal is occurring? What kind
of trees, wildlife and aesthetics will it hold? Will all the
deadwood fuel a massive fire? Will enough old trees survive to
provide seed for the future? How do management decisions play
into the future forest? The big blowdown, like logging and fire,
has changed the forest and caused all who enjoy the area to pause
and consider what happens next. But the force that blew forests
apart also provides the real opportunity to study how a forest
reacts to a massive natural disturbance.
Working with forest researchers, participants will have an
opportunity to learn first hand in the field using low and high
tech tools to begin answering some of these questions. The
Institute will be based at Wilderness Canoe Base, a unique
wilderness camp adjacent to the BWCAW on Sea Gull Lake at the end
of the Gunflint Trail. Daily field studies will be conducted from
the camp, and an optional 5 days wilderness canoe trip will
include a survey of the Fall 2000 Emerald Lake burn in the Quetico
Provincial Park, Ontario.
For more information contact Dawn Cameron, Science Museum of
Minnesota, at (651) 221-4747 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit:
www.smm.org/museum/education/Programs/ProfDev/bwcaw
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