Mrs. Amanda Hetrick, Superintendent of the Forest Area Schools, recently attended a meeting of the Allegheny Forest Health Collaborative with two students, Taylor Oliver and Aletta Summers, from East Forest High School. The consortium is a group of 75 businesses, agencies and organizations that are impacted by the practice of sustainable forestry, led by staff from the US Forest Service and the Allegheny Hardwood Utilization Group. The students went to presentations about bat habitat, beech leaf disease, marten reintroduction and even got to meet Paul Weiss, the Forestry Division Chief from the PA Game Commission, who is a graduate of West Forest. They learned about many career opportunities with a variety of potential future employers in the fields of forestry and wildlife.
