Forestry Club

The Forestry Club is one of many clubs available to students on our campus.  Membership in this club has historically been 100% of the students enrolled in the Forest Operations program and participation has been excellent.  Activities include campus, off-campus and community services.

On campus activities have included Blood Drives, Alcohol Awareness Week, Fall Fest, Spring Fest, Thanksgiving Food Drive, Christmas Food Drive, "Storm of the Century" relief drive, hosting the District Future Farmers of America (FFA) Forestry Contest for many years, hosting the Regional FFA Leadership Training Workshop, and adoption of the College's two entrances for litter control ("Adopt a Highway").

Community activities have included Hurricane Hugo relief (approximately 20 Forest Operations students visited and assisted in the North Carolina area), Spring and Winter Special Olympics (the Special Olympics group has turned the track and field and the bowling ally events over to the Forestry Club for the past several years), Olustee Day, and Clean the Osceola Forest Day.

Each year the Student Activities Department hosts an awards banquet where the Director of Student Activities presents outstanding achievement awards in five different areas, based on individual club membership activity and involvement, to the various clubs on campus.  The Forestry Club won four of these five awards in the 1994-1995 school year and at least one award for several other years.

Off campus activities include annual competition between the LCCC Forestry Club and the University of Florida Forestry Club.  The competition intensifies in the spring semester each year when the two clubs meet for the "Flatwoods Frolics" at the Austin Cary Forest, (UF's practice forest) in Waldo, Florida.  The UF club stages the annual event ("Gators" vs. "Timberwolves") as a live competition in preparation for their annual Southeastern Conclave where they compete with thirteen other University Forestry clubs.  This annual event has grown into quite a "friendly" competition.  The contests for this activity include both technical and physical events.  Physical events include; log rolling, axe throwing, cross cut sawing (men's, women's, and Jack and Jill), pole felling, speed chopping, archery, bow sawing, chain throwing, knife throwing, log birling, pole climbing, and pole felling.  Technical events include compass and pacing, D.B.H. estimation, dendrology, aerial photogrammetry, pole classification, timber estimation, and wood identification technology.  Some of these events are scheduled on the Friday afternoon before the Saturday competition.