Forestry Education Kit

Forestry Education Kits are available to check-out and are great for hands-on forestry education. There are eleven kits available – contact information for all eleven locations is below. The kits contain equipment and tools to facilitate teaching tree identification and management, plot investigations, and navigation using compasses. In addition, one kit contains 10 Garmin GPS units. Funding for this project was provided by the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB), Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation (WEEF), and LEAF – Wisconsin’s K-12 Forestry Education Program. 

This kit includes:

• Tree scale/cruising sticks (15)
• Clinometers (10)
• Diameter tapes (8)
• 100-foot tapes (5)
• GPS Units (10) and bag
• Kestrel Weather Meters (5)
• Prisms (15)
• LEAF Tree Identification Keys (15)
• Set of LEAF tree identification cards
• Forest Trees of Wisconsin booklets (15)
• PLT Focus on Forests Lesson Guide
• Binder containing lessons and instructions  
• Guides:
  • Snakes of Wisconsin by WI DNR
  • Amphibians of Wisconsin by WI DNR
  • Lizards and Turtles of Wisconsin by WI DNR
  • Wildflowers of Wisconsin and Great Lakes Region
  • Complete Guide to Trees and Shrubs of Minnesota
  • Peterson Field Guide: Mammals
  • Peterson Field Guide: Animal Tracks
  • Peterson Field Guide: Reptiles and Amphibians
  • Peterson Field Guide: Insects
  • Birds of Wisconsin (CD and book)
• Compass Teaching Kit (23)
• A Sand County Almanac
• Battery Charger and Extra Rechargeable Batteries (8)

Other Resources for this kit:

• Tree Measurement: Wood’s Worth, 5/6 field enhancement 1
• Forest Inventory: Timber Cruise, 9-12 field enhancement 4
• Tree Identification: Tree Identification, 7/8 field enhancement 1
• Ecological Diversity: Forest Diversity, 7/8 field enhancement 3
• Inventory Plots: School Forest Resource Plots, 9-12 field enhancement 2
• Wildlife Habitat: Habitat Assessment, 9-12 field enhancement 5