2011 Summer Academy blogs about TreeFight

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This summer, TreeFight and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival collaborated to bring students from both the Jackson Hole High School and the Middle School into the whitebark forest atop Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. It was an initiative that JHWFF director Lisa Samford had dubbed ‘SummerQuest.’ After their experiences, students at the Middle School ‘Summer Academy’ (sounds better than summer school, right?) turned their thoughts into some truly amazing blog …continue…

Summerquest: Bronc Prep and Summer Academy go TreeFighting

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This summer, TreeFight brought more than 100 students into the whitebark forest, where they learned about the plight of the Whitebark, protected trees with pheromone pouches, took geotagged pictures of trees (and many other things), shot video, and gained a powerful, personal sense of what climate change is doing to the most important pines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Click ‘More’ below to check out a gallery of images shot …continue…