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Wesley Carter, Number One in the Nation

Wesley Carter, a senior at Bibb County Career Tech Center, placed first in the nation in the Forestry Applications phase of the National FFA Forestry Career Development event held in October 2005 in Louisville Kentucky.  The Forestry applications phase is the field work part of the event and includes timber cruising, tree identification, and map interpretation.

 Wesley is a member of the Bibb County Career Tech Center FFA.


Bibb County Career Tech FFA Competes in
The National Forestry Career Event

The Bibb County Career Tech Center FFA Forestry team competed in the National FFA Forestry Career Development Event the last week in October in Louisville Kentucky.

Team members included Joseph Deason, Anthony Bramlett, Bert House, and Wesley Carter. The team FFA advisor is Roger Brothers.

The national Forestry CDE includes a written exam, a forestry issues interview, a business management problem, timber cruising, compass and pacing, topographic map interpretation, forest insects and diseases, chainsaw trouble shooting, timber stand improvement, equipment identification, tree identification, and wood identification.

Wesley Carter placed number one in the nation in the forestry applications phase and number three in the nation overall. Wesley received a $750 scholarship.

The team placed number five in the nation out of the 39 states represented and received a Gold Emblem award from the National FFA.

The national event is sponsored by BASF and International Paper. The state event is sponsored by the Alabama Forestry Association.

Our local sponsors were B.A.S. Timber Company of Brent, Green Tree Forestry Services of Scottsboro Alabama, The Alabama Forestry Foundation, Geomet, Inc. of Houston Texas, Seaman Timber, Scott Davis Timber, and Cahaba Veneer
 

BCCTC Forestry Team Prepares for National Competitions

The Bibb County Career Tech Forestry team placed first in the State in the FFA

Forestry Career Event held in Auburn this past June.

 The event includes a written general forestry knowledge exam, timber cruising, Timber stand improvement, compass and pacing course, tree identification, legal land description and topographic map interpretation. The team will represent Alabama in the National FFA event in Louisville Kentucky 23-29 October.

In addition to all the areas included in the State event, at the National event these students will compete in an individual Forestry issues interview, Tree disorders identification, wood identification, chainsaw trouble shooting and safety, Forestry equipment identification and a Business management problem

Katrina Makeup Day Set

The Bibb County Board of Education met Monday, September 19, and voted to make up the day lost due to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, November 23.

 

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