Bonner County Daily Bee: Kaniksu Land Trust, Washington Elementary partner for outdoor education
By RACHEL SUN
Staff Writer | November 8, 2020 1:00 AM
On a damp, overcast Wednesday afternoon, Kaniksu Land Trust Educational Director Dave Kretzschmar led a group of fifth and sixth graders from Washington Elementary down the pine-covered pathways at Pine Street Woods in Sandpoint.
The children chatted, laughed and played games as the group hiked. At one point, Kretzschmar stopped, eyes turned upward as he looked at the trees.
“You see how those trees are stripped of wood?” he said, pointing upward.
Kretzschmar, followed by the group of elementary students, walked further into the trees to look. Porcupines, he explained to the children, like to pull the bark off of trees to eat it. Often, if you see stripped tree bark, you can spot a porcupine nearby.
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