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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Trees For Tomorrow Has Been Helping Conserve WI Forests for 75 Years
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:29
	Publish Date:		2019-03-29 05:36:31
	Description:		Trees For Tomorrow in Eagle River is celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. As part of our We Live Up Here series, Mackenzie Martin talked to their executive director about the importance of teaching children about conservation in our forests. Trees For Tomorrow in Eagle River celebrated their 75th anniversary of operation as a nonprofit natural resource specialty school in February. A group of students from Indian Mound Middle School in McFarland was visiting at the time. Smokey Bear and U.S. Forest Service Eagle River/Florence District Ranger Chad Kirschbaum were also there since it’s Smokey’s 75th birthday this year as well. While Smokey has spent the last 75 years preventing forest fires with the public’s help, Trees For Tomorrow has been educating students about natural resources. Hundreds of thousands of students ages K-12 have come through the school’s campus since it started. Reese Turner was one of the students visiting from McFarland. He said at Trees For Tomorrow,
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