Sweet Home’s Forestry Club took second place at the state forestry competition held Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, at Oregon State University.
Six teams and 112 students competed in the two-day competition, which included technical events on Friday, including first aid, written expression, demonstration speech, prepared speech, job interview, map reading, tool and plant identification. Physical events on Saturday included crosscut sawing, power bucking, choker setting, axe throw, cable splicing, pole climb, hose lay, timber…