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| Field Trip "C"
Community Forestry and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum |
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| Visit the offices of the Alaska Boreal Forest Council, a community-based forest education and
research non-profit organization, where birch syrup will be in production. Each spring, hundreds of Fairbanks
school children use the activity of tapping birch trees for sap as a window into the ecology, economy, and
history of use of the local forest. Savor the taste and smell of birch syrup and learn how the students' data
are providing 'sweet lessons in sustainability' for the region's commercial syrup producers.
Next, visit Creamer's Field Migratory Wildlife Refuge, site of the Interior Region headquarters of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Visit two interpretive/ information centers on the refuge: one community-based; the other agency-operated. View abundant avian wildlife, including waterfowl and raptors with frequent predator-prey interaction, just adjacent the information centers in 300 acres of agricultural fields. View the research operation and avian diversity of boreal forest passerine species. Continue on to the University of Alaska Museum, one of Alaska's premier visitor attractions. The Museum houses the state's largest natural and cultural history collections. Botanist Carolyn Parker will give us a behind-the-scenes tour of the Herbarium: an active research collection holding over 200,000 specimens that document the vascular and non-vascular flora of Alaska and other northern circumpolar regions. |
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