Forestry Articles

For the fourth year in a row, Pennsylvania College of Technology has been honored with Tree Campus USA recognition for establishing and sustaining healthy community forests. The national program was created a dozen years ago by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor educational institutions for helping to foster the next generation of environmental stewards.

Imagine a career where you can spend your days in the great outdoors. With a degree in forest technology, profiled on Penn College's YouTube channel, that future could be yours! Learn what goes into sustainable woodland management. Follow the life cycle of growth from seedlings and germination to maturity and harvest.

Students stop for a sunny-day photo outside Montour Preserve, facilitated by Erich R. Doebler (visible in shadow). Students in Erich R. Doebler's Wildlife Management class (FOR245) recently visited Montour Preserve, which is managed by the Montour Area Recreation Commission, to learn more about wildlife, nature preserves and the regulations associated with operating such facilities.

South talks with forestry students during Monday's visit. Students in Erich R. Doebler's Forest Products class this week visited the Danzer plant on Reach Road, one of the few veneer mills in Pennsylvania. The group met with Paul R. South, a 2016 forest technology graduate of Penn College.

Bingaman's Nicholas Bisaccia talks with Penn College forestry students outside the Kreamer facility. Forest technology majors get a comprehensive tour at the hub of a decades-old operation. Instructor Erich R. Doebler's Forestry Products class (FOR210) traveled to Bingaman & Son Lumber Inc. in Kreamer on Monday for an industry tour.

Don Remmey provides an overview of his pallet-making operation for Penn College forestry students ... ... and takes them on a tour of the manufacturing floor. Instructor Erich R. Doebler's Forest Products class visited Remmey, The Pallet Company, in Beaver Springs on Monday, gaining firsthand insight into secondary manufacturing and use of low-grade product.

Matthew J. Waters, who graduated from Penn College in May 2016 with an associate degree in forest technology, was among the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources employees dispatched to fight wildfires in western states this summer.

For the third consecutive year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has been honored with Tree Campus USA recognition for effective forest management and for engaging employees and students in conservation goals.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors will soon flock to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center to celebrate the commonwealth’s leading industry, and Pennsylvania College of Technology students and employees will be on hand for an interactive peek into the real-world applications of “degrees that work.”

Trees are ground into mulch at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center.