The high school students learned that Henry VIII and lodgepole pines share a common trait.
History and forestry record that both were or are profl igate spreaders of seed.
Loggers with Parke Logging labored nearby as Jake Lee, a service forester for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, relayed this royalty analogy Monday to students from Granite High School in Philipsburg.
The setting was a segment of the Pintler Face II timber sale in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Traveling dusty roads in a school bus just a few shades darker than quaking aspen, 24 students and two teachers arrived to participate in what was billed as Montana’s Wood Products Appreciation Day 2024.
Dave Krueger, a procurement forester for Sun Mountain Lumber, relied on his pickup’s mobile radio to guide what he called “the school bus parade” to avoid run-ins with loaded logging trucks.
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