Camp Sylvester, Pinecrest

Event Program | Focus Topic Question | Presentation Score Sheet

Event Photos | Highest Scoring Presentation

Forestry Challenge Championship group photo

The sixth Forestry Challenge Championship was held on April 22 to 24 at Camp Sylvester in Pinecrest, Tuolumne County. With only the teams that scored over 200 from the fall events earning the invitation, 24 teams from 16 schools participated from as far North as Redding and as far south as Los Angeles.

The focus topic was From Research to Application – Perpetuating Variable Density Forest Structure. Students learned about the role of research and how it influences land managers’ decisions when designing projects, explained an example of that application in the SERAL project, and outlined a plan to perpetuate complex stand structure in SERAL for recently created variable density stands.

Here are the results out of a possible 250 points:
First Place:  Granada Hills Charter team 10 (Los Angeles County), 209.8 points
Second Place:  Forest Hill team 6 (Placer County), 207.3 points
Third Place: Granada Hills Charter team 9 (Los Angeles County), 204.0 points
Fourth Place:  Bret Harte team 3 (Calaveras County), 199.8 points
Fifth Place:  Oak Ridge High School team 7 (El Dorado County) 190.8 points

Other high schools at the Championship were: Benicia (Solano) Benjamin Franklin (Los Angeles), Charter Oak (Los Angeles), Foothill (Shasta), Golden Sierra (El Dorado), Half Moon Bay (San Mateo), John F Kennedy (Los Angeles), Middletown (Lake), Mira Loma (Sacramento), Nevada Union (Placer), Mountainside Middle College (El Dorado), Palisades (Los Angeles), Piedmont (Alameda), and Woodside (San Mateo).