CNC Students Off to Costa Rica
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 @ 3:48 AM
Prince George, B.C. – A group of students from the College of New Caledonia is headed for Costa Rica today for a chance to compare that Central American country’s natural resources to those of BC.
The Natural Resources Environmental Technology and biology students are enrolled in Forestry 251 at CNC. NRET instructor David Stearns, one of two instructors going with the eight students on the two-week field trip, says “We will look at the ecology of the jungle environment, its biodiversity, studying the relationship between its plants and animals. We’ll also look at the coastal marine environment.” He says the students will compare those environments to B.C.’s forest, “especially the Boreal Forest where Prince George is.”
They’ll also hike in a volcanic national park, go on a canopy tour of the jungle, visit coffee and banana plantations and go on a river rafting tour. But the entire two weeks won’t be taken up in the bush. The students also visit the city of San Jose and go to museums, an opera house and lots of merchant venues.
The students return to Prince George May 17th.
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Oh man, have a great trip. I have been to Costa Rica once, a few years ago, and loved it. Beautiful place.
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