ESF Woodsmen Team

The Forestry Club is the oldest student organization, created in 1912, at The College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. The Forestry Club uses old-fashioned logging techniques as a sport and as the Woodsmen's Team competes with other colleges at meets. These events include horizontal chop, axe throw, pole climb, as well as many more.

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Woodsmen News…
March 29^th, 2009 The Woodsmen Team hosted the 4^th annual East Coast Lumberjack Round-up at the LaFayette Field Experiment Station in LaFayette, NY. Teams from Fingerlakes Community College, Paul Smith’s College, Penn State University, Cobleskill, and the Rangerschool all competed with the ESF women taking first place overall and the men taking second.

April 4th, 2009 The Woodsmen Team will be traveling up to Waterville, Maine to compete in Colby College’s Mud Meet. Four teams consisting of three women and three men will try their best in several different events including dry land burling, backboard/water boil relay and disc stack. Sorry everyone, but there will be no match light this year!

April 24^th & 25^th, 2009 The woodsmen Team will be competing in the 63^rd annual spring meet to be held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Directions to the meet as well as a list of events and times can be found on the hyperlink above. This meet is sponsored by Stihl timbersports and promises to be extremely competitive and fun.