Wednesday, October 11, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
here, and share what you’ve
learned with your friends and
family back home.”
Instead of the old Outdoor
School technique of the stu-
dents going to various sta-
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tions set up in the forest to
with this statement beneath learn about trees, water, soils
it: “This is an outdoor school and wildlife, the new tech-
where people, plants, and nique is to form “partners”
animals live together and within the group of students
learn from each other. This is and they progress into the
your book to help you learn outdoor classroom to discuss
about the outdoors, remem- various aspects of the forest
ber your unique experience that covers trees, water, soil
and wildlife.
Mo s t o f t h e
forest surround-
ing Tamarack was
burned over by
the B&B Complex
Fire of 2003. The
blackened trees
were used to teach
students about the
nature of fire.
As a group of 10
students, divided
into partner groups,
began their trek
into the wildlfire
zone, they stopped
often to discuss
various aspects of
fire and the recov-
ering ecosystem.
“I notice…”
one partner would
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
say to the other,
A student received the “Purple Bead Award” for and then describe
his house keeping and cooperative excellence. a particular part of
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OUTDOOR: Kids
spend time at Camp
Tamarack near Sisters
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
Charlie “Peanuts” Anderson (center) watching over his flock studying in the B&B Burn on an Outdoor School day
at Camp Tamarack.
the burned forest that caught
his or her attention. Once one
aspect of the forest was cov-
ered the group would change
partners and move on to
another viewpoint.
In this way, the instruc-
tors would guide the students
into discussing fire, forest,
water, geology, wildlife and
the methods that were used
to bring the fire into eventual
control. At one point, one
of the high school instruc-
tors asked why, if fire had
destroyed so much of the sur-
rounding forest, the buildings
at Camp Tamarack were not
burned.
That discussion went on
for almost an hour on the fire-
fighting methods that saved
the camp, the firefighters’
tools and procedures, money
spent on fighting the fire, the
impact not only on the forest
itself, but on the native wild-
life and ecosystem.
As the students contin-
ued on through burned and
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unburned parts of the forest,
the instructors were able to
inject the ideas of scientific
discovery and use it to go
deeper into aspects of biol-
ogy and understanding the
complexities of the ecosys-
tem impacted by fire.
Instructor Ariel Clark,
known by her “camp name”
Orion, expressed a common
sentiment:
“I just love working with
students in this outdoor
setting.”