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Canopy Connections is an outdoor education program for middle school students put together by eight University of Oregon students with the help of Environmental Leadership Program, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and Pacific Tree Climbing Institute, and funded by the Gray Family Foundation. Canopy Connections offers day-long field trips to H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and pre-trip lessons to six middle school classes from the greater Eugene area. The fieldtrip features a 100 foot climb into the canopy of a 500 year-old Douglas fir tree and four stations with hands-on lesson plans at each. This year's curriculum focused on interconnectedness in the McKenzie River watershed and the lessons addressed decomposition, forest biology, fluvial ecosystems, and landscape and topography.
Canopy Connections is an outdoor education program for middle school students put together by eight University of Oregon students with the help of Environmental Leadership Program, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and Pacific Tree Climbing Institute, and funded by the Gray Family Foundation. Canopy Connections offers day-long field trips to H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and pre-trip lessons to six middle school classes from the greater Eugene area. The fieldtrip features a 100 foot climb into the canopy of a 500 year-old Douglas fir tree and four stations with hands-on lesson plans at each. This year's curriculum focused on interconnectedness in the McKenzie River watershed and the lessons addressed decomposition, forest biology, fluvial ecosystems, and landscape and topography.