UAF to host forest festival
September 29, 2014
907-474-5042
9/29/2014
The 17th annual Farthest North Forest Sports Festival will bring out the woodsmen in Fairbanks on Saturday, Oct. 4.
Individuals and teams compete in ax throwing, log rolling, campfire building and more lumberjack-style activities in this free event hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The competition begins at 10 a.m. at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm and moves to Ballaine Lake on Farmers Loop at about 1 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension and the UAF Resource Management Society student club. For more information, contact professor John Yarie, 474-5650 or jayarie@alaska.edu.
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