The Virginia Visit
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Virginia and Costa Rica youth toured the Brooks Forest Products Lab on the Virginia Tech campus
as part of the State 4-H Congress. Here they are learning how an electron microscope is used to develop
new applications for wood. Youth are taught that wood is a global resource and are urged to think of
forestry as a sustainable natural resource.
Professor Robert Shaffer (in center) of Virginia Tech emphasizes a point about timber harvesting at a logging site
in southwest Virginia. Youth observed different phases of mechanized harvesting, and observed
the results of reforestation on the industry-owned land.
