Ninety Six District RC&D
115 Enterprise Court
Suite A-3
Greenwood, SC 29649
Tel: (864) 229-2174 
Fax: (864) 229-2845

Counties: Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick and Saluda

Elyse Benson, RC&D Coordinator 
Extension 109
Email: elyse.benson@sc.usda.gov

Kim Turner, Administrative Assistant
Extension 102

Ninety Six District RC&D Hosts 25th Annual Woodland Clinic

by Elyse Benson, Ninety-Six District RC&D Coordinator

The team from Edgefield County's Strom Thurmond High earned top honors at the 25th Annual Woodland Clinic.

In April, the Ninety Six District RC&D hosted the 25th Annual Woodland Clinic, a forestry competition for high schools, at Baker Creek State Park in McCormick County. The competition consists of four individual events: tree measurement, compass and pacing, tree and forest pest identification, and tools and equipment. The teams finish with a lumberjack race where the kids have an opportunity to try their hand at using logging tools in a relay race.

Six counties participated with schools from Saluda, Abbeville High, Abbeville Career Center, Long Cane Academy, John de la Howe, Strom Thurmond, Dixie High, and Calhoun Falls. The Strom Thurmond High team earned top honors, with Calhoun Falls coming in second followed by Saluda High in third. The two top competitors were separated by only a single point, with Zacks Rearden (Strom Thurmond High) earning the high score, Montana Peavy (John de la Howe) in second, and Angel Henderson (Strom Thurmond High) taking the third place prize.

The Ninety-Six District RC&D Council sponsors the clinic with support by contributions from local timber industry companies, county forestry associations, and Soil and Water Conservation Districts. The contest is set up and run by the SC Forestry Commission with assistance from local NRCS and USDA Forest Service employees, timber industry foresters and a number of retired timber workers and other volunteers.

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