Family Event Scheduled for Vinton Furnace State Forest
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (July 23, 2018) – The public is invited to attend Family Day in the Woods, a free and family-friendly event at Vinton Furnace State Forest on Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities will be tailored for kids (grades K-6) to foster good environmental stewardship in the future.
Fun, hands-on activities will include wagon rides through the woods, nature hikes, forest wildlife, pollinators and insects, forestry tools and science, Native American mound builders, wildfire prevention with Smokey Bear, and a portable sawmill. The Vinton County 4-H Club will be serving food.
The Vinton Furnace State Forest is one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in the United States and home to more than 50 years of ongoing research by scientists from the USDA Forest Service’s lab in Delaware, Ohio.
WHAT: Family Day in the Woods
WHO: “A Day in the Woods” and the “2nd Friday Series” Program
WHEN: Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Vinton Furnace State Forest (Vinton County)
Directions: goo.gl/maps/fpAmgh3keHK2, or Coordinates: 39.199617, -82.396229
Brochure: http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/Portals/forestry/PDFs/SF/vintonfurnace.pdf
Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 15, 2018, to Dave Apsley at Ohio State University Extension Vinton County by calling 740-596-5212, or via email at apsley.1@osu.edu.
“A Day in the Woods” and the “2nd Friday Series” programs run from May through November and are sponsored by the Education and Demonstration Subcommittee of the Vinton Furnace State Forest with support from Ohio State University Extension, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Divisions of Forestry and Wildlife, USDA Forest Service, Vinton County Soil and Water Conservation District, National Wild Turkey Federation, Glatfelter, Ohio Tree Farm Committee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hocking College, and Ohio’s SFI Implementation Committee.
The U.S. Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a mission of sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. The Forest Service’s Eastern Region includes twenty states in the Midwest and East, stretching from Maine, to Maryland, to Missouri, to Minnesota. There are 17 national forests and one national tallgrass prairie in the Eastern Region. For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/R9.
The U.S. Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. Public lands the Forest Service manages contribute more than $13 billion to the economy each year through visitor spending alone. Those same lands provide 20 percent of the nation’s clean water supply, a value estimated at $7.2 billion per year. The agency has either a direct or indirect role in stewardship of about 80 percent of the 850 million forested acres within the U.S., of which 100 million acres are urban forests where most Americans live. For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/.
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