What a great year to be a UW forestry graduate! Your enthusiasm and participation in the UW Alumni Association is making my time as your President a true pleasure. (If you are receiving this newsletter, but have not yet joined UWAA, please don't delay any longer. We welcome your support.)

Thanks to the financial support of the community and the volunteer efforts of faculty, students, alums and friends, we were able to bring back Arbor Day Fair April 20 and 21, 2006. It was a huge success and very rewarding for everyone involved. I look forward to an even bigger event in 2007. As soon as we have the dates, we will get them to you. Nothing matches helping grade schoolers, their teachers and parents get a hands-on forest science experience.
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Kids See the Forest Through the Trees in Arbor Day 2006
Little Claire's favorite part of Arbor Day is seeing the large, grumbling papermaking machine. She and her classmates stare wide-eyed as the loud whirring of the machine captures her interest. To Claire and her classmates, it's a magnificent noisemaking machine. For Arbor Day volunteers, it's a perfect chance to showcase the role of forests in these children's everyday lives.

As they have nine times before, College of Forest Resources' alumni, faculty, staff and students have teamed up to provide a tremendous educational program about forestry and natural resources for over 2,000 grade-school students. Hands-on presentations covered various topics, including papermaking, tree identification, wildlife, how a tree grows, wood products, recreation, forest soils, the hydrologic cycle and many others.
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Garb Day and Pack Forest 80th Anniversary
Mark your calendars! On May 20th, a joint Garb Day and Pack Forest 80th Anniversary celebration will be held at Pack Forest. The College is planning a day full of fun activities and planners are looking forward to a large turnout by all members of the CFR community, especially the alumni and their families.
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"Growing the Green in the Big Apple"
Marvel at the wonders of the horticultural oasis that is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and what it takes to manage it in the urban landscape of New York City. Join us on May 19, 2006 from 3:30 - 7 p.m., at this Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series Seminar featuring Scot Medbury, CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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"Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Physical and biological environments"
Join us for this Denman Forestry Issues Series presentation. Attendance at the recording session is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Contact Ellen Matheny at ematheny@u.washington.edu for information. June 1, 2006 2:00 - 5:00 pm - NHS Hall, Center for Urban Horticulture.

Graduation
Celebrate our graduates at the College of Forest Resources Graduation Celebration! The graduation will be taking place on June 8, 2006 at Kane Hall in Seattle. For more information, contact the Office of Student and Academic Services at cfradv@u.washington.edu.