Forest Management Technology - Wayne Community College

Logging and Marketing students learn about southern yellow pine forest products!! Thanks to Brandon Jones and AG Parker Lumber for showing us around.

Fall classes start on Monday!!!! As we look forward to cooler weather we should talk about how hot it was this summer. The forest management technology students go through a rigorous summer program that is a character builder. Rain or shine studnts proved they got what it takes to make out in the field

This summer students took 4 classes. In forest protection students learn how to identify and manage forest pests. In the silviculture class students learn how to manage an active growing forest. Forest mensuration teaches students how to cruise timber and what to do with the data they collect. Students also take a forest ethics and law course that challenges their thought on what it means to be a steward of the forest.

Here are some pictures showing what our students got into this summer.

Thank you Canal Wood for helping us manage such a dynamic educational resource for our students!!

Thank you to Canal Wood LLC for generously donating $11,000 to our Forest Management Technology program and for helping to enhance our forestry students’ hands-on learning area! 🌳

Canal Wood and Jared Sasnett Logging Company thinned the property that serves as a space for students to experience conditions needing different forest management techniques. The timber was given to Canal Wood, and after the project’s completion, the company donated funds to further support our forestry program. We appreciate Canal Wood's willingness to help meet the needs of current and future WCC students. 💙💛

Read more about the project and donation: waynecc.edu/news/canal-wood-provides-support-for-wccs-forestry-program/.

Our Mission is Ignition!

Do you yearn to burn? Wanna get hired to fire?
Let Wayne CC light the way.
Our forestry students wrap up their wildfire management course with a prescribed burn in our educational forest.
This burn completes their training as Type II Wildland Firefighters.

You Axed for It!

The WCC Forestry Swag Shop has reopened by popular demand.
We have the old-school est. 1965 logo and the 2025 exclusive bison-jack shirt options available (both have original crossed axe logo on the front). Hats and fishing shirts have the saw logo.

Here's the link:
https://www.quickshirts.com/find-your-store/

Profits go to Wayne CC Forestry Club.
Store closes 4/24 at midnight.

Get a Cutting Edge-ucation!

WCC Forestry Club Visits Montgomery CC in the NC Piedmont for the Mid-Atlantic Timbersports Conclave.

Big thanks to Montgomery CC (host), and the support from fellow competitors: Haywood CC, Penn State, Penn State Mont Alto, Allegheny College of Maryland, and West Virginia University.

Truly an awesome experience for forestry students.

Happy Valen-pines!

Forget those sappy gifts and treet your sweetgum to some WCC Forestry swag. We've got new & old designs for hats, shirts, hoodies, and beanies! Here's the link to our store:
https://quickshirts.com/wayneccforestry
Profits go to WCC Forestry Club.

Tree's a Crowd!

But we love the company. Forest Fire Management students measure planting density and fuel loading in our loblolly pine plantation. Wildlife students measure habitat parameters and learn to ID birds by their calls.

Needles to Say, We love Pines!

Really, we're knot kidding. First year students attend their first forest measurements lab where they see some tools of the trade in action. Forest Fire Management students collect data to estimate loading of various fuel classes in our teaching forest.

Turning Over a New Leaf

Congratulations to our Fall 2024 graduates. All that hard work finally paid off. Our grads are branching out University, Service and industry.

Current Wayne Community College Forestry students begin a new spring semester with measurements, GIS/GPS, Wildlife, and Forest Fire management courses.

Forestry, It Just Fells Good!

Logging & Marketing students begin the thinning process on one of our teaching forests. Dendrology students find their sea-legs on Monday during a tree ID quiz.

We're Doing Pine, Thanks for Asking!

WCC Forestry students focus on loblolly pine this week. Loblolly pine, or "Pinus taeda," is our major crop in eastern NC.
Second-year students take small plots to collect information about the condition of a three-year-old planted stand. First-year students begin the process of felling and bucking some selected trees in a twenty-year-old overstocked loblolly stand.