Envirothon 2007 State Contest

By Karla Beatty, OCC Education Coordinator

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

More importantly, how much wood was in the tree the woodchuck chucked and do we even have woodchucks in Oklahoma? 

The winning team from Lawton Eisenhower High School with their coach and the Envirothon banner.

Students participating in the aquatics section of the competition.

You may not know the answers to these questions, but the Lawton Eisenhower High School Envirothon team probably does. The team earned the title of Oklahoma Envirothon State Champions at the 2007 Oklahoma Envirothon competition on April 2-4, 2007, at Sequoyah State Park on Ft. Gibson Lake. They will represent Oklahoma at the Canon Envirothon competition in New York in July.

The Oklahoma Envirothon is part of a national program for high school students designed to educate and challenge young people in the environmental sciences. It is an exciting, fun way for students to learn about the environment and the issues facing this and future generations. Combining in-class curriculum with hands-on field experiences, Envirothon demonstrates the role people have in important environmental issues such as forestry, wildlife management, water quality, soil erosion, and land use.

The Oklahoma Envirothon competition is sponsored by OGE Energy Corp., Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, Samuel Robert Noble Foundation, Oklahoma Association for Environmental Education, Cross Timbers Forestry, Rogers County Conservation District, Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Ottawa County Conservation District and Canon Envirothon.

Seven teams with five members each participated in this year’s competition. The following teams were sponsored by their local conservation districts (CD):

The following conservation district employees and Conservation Commission (OCC) employees participated in the competition serving as walking leaders, judges and steering committee members.