Our NRM Career Awareness Camps are designed to provide students and their teachers with first-hand knowledge of some of the many careers associated with resource management. Over the course of two to two and half days, students and teachers participate in a variety of hands-on, field oriented workshops hosted by resource management professionals drawn from forest companies, consulting firms, government ministries and post-secondary institutions. Each workshop allows participants to gain insight into each career by ‘walking the walk’ and ‘talking the talk’ with each professional.

In addition to learning about what each professional does, students and teachers also learn about each professional’s personal career path beginning with their interests in high school through to post-secondary education and on through the assortment of jobs they may have held. Along with these personal insights, participants learn how to work safely in the forest with sessions on forest safety, wilderness survival and orienteering.

NRM Career Awareness Workshops, Presentations and Activities
Note: workshops, presentations and activities vary from camp to camp.

Hands-on, Field-orientated Workshops
Archaeology
Block Layout
Fish and Riparian Management
Forest Health
Harvesting Operations
Road and Bridge Engineering
Soils and Ecology
Timber Cruising
Traditional Land Use
Wildlife Management
Integrated Resource Management

Activities
Orienteering

Presentations
Bear Aware and Forest Safety
Careers in Resource Management
Careers in the Forest Industry
Post-Secondary Education Programs
Wilderness Survival

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