Forest sports festival is cutting edge

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: (907) 474-7778
10/05/04

Katey Walter, a Ph.D. candidate in biology and wildlife, tries her hand at the two-person cross-cut competition during the seventh annual Forest Sports Festival, sponsored by UAF’s School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences in conjunction with the Resource Management Society.

Other contests in the competition on Saturday, Oct. 2 included the pulp toss, axe throw, log rolling, solo cross-cut, fire building and birling on Ballaine Lake. Prizes were awarded to the winning team and the top individual male and female participants.