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Make it Healthier by Cutting it Down?

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Fifth graders discuss sustainable forestry. In this forestry lesson, 5th graders discuss how healthy forests need to have dead, diseased and lower quality trees cut down and harvested. They visit a local forest and identify these 3 types of bad trees. 

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5th
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Science
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2 hrs

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