Everything You Wanted to Know about

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Everything You Wanted to Know about
RSS Forestry Program
Rutland Senior Secondary School
Forest Resource Field Studies
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Forestry Resource Management
A 10 month course Starts in semester 2 of grade
11 (February) Students are enrolled as full time
forestry students. Credits given for Science 11,
Portfolio, and Applied Skills.
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Who Can Join Forestry?

• Any person under the age of 19 before June of the
  year that they are applying.

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A typical day of Forestry
Start time is 800 am. Drive to the site, learn
and apply topic. Return to school by 315
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Some samples of the Forestry Class
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Tree removal
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Get your Firefighting certificate
Learn fire fighting skills
Walk 2km with a 40lb pack within 30 mins.
Set up a pump and hose system
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Tree planting
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Have your own survival kit. Build a
lean-to. Build a fire and boil water in one hour.
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Slash burning
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If you have any questions , come and talk to us
in the forestry room (1336) or in the career
center.