Cloquet Forestry Center Youth Outreach Programs
Cloquet Forestry Center, 175 University Road, Cloquet, MN 55720
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Cloquet Forestry Center Youth Outreach Programs include field-based learning with hands-on activities such as traveling along trails to different stations, tree identification, and wildlife tracking. Participants take part in projects like making forest faces, creating sun art, and building field guides, and they learn about macroinvertebrates, invasive species, rock cycles, and what to do if lost in the woods. The programs also feature wagon tours, boat races, and sessions on the process of turning logs into lumber, along with field trips that emphasize wildlife, forestry, rock cycles, and invasive species.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, July 22–23, 2026; field trips vary in length from part- to full-day events
The mission of the Cloquet Forestry Center is to connect through field-based research, education, and outreach. Immersive science and forestry programs provide youth with field-based learning and hands-on doing, and Conservation Education Days engages Carlton County’s 5th graders in field-based learning about their environment, including travel to 11 different stations. Forestry Adventure Days uses the outdoors as a classroom to excite kids about science and forestry, and summer sessions are offered for ages 3–12 as campers and ages 13–18 as assistants, with K–12 field trips arranged upon request with specialized topics.
Conservation Education Days began in 1968, and the Cloquet Forestry Center has been the primary research and education forest for the University of Minnesota since 1909. Conservation Education Days relies on a partnership between the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center, Carlton County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, and Sappi. The Cloquet Forestry Center is home to the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative and the Minnesota Tree Improvement Cooperative, and it also houses the University of Minnesota Extension Regional Office, Cloquet, which works with the local community on issues related to rural health, natural resources, and education. The University of Minnesota and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are moving forward with the return of the Cloquet Forestry Center land, and the University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
Questions about youth programs can be directed to Rachael Olesiak, with Kyle Gill serving as Forest Manager and Research Coordinator and Eli Sagor serving as Associate Extension Professor with the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative. The program is supported by gifts that help get more students into the forest to learn about the environment and natural resources.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, July 22–23, 2026; field trips vary in length from part- to full-day events
The mission of the Cloquet Forestry Center is to connect through field-based research, education, and outreach. Immersive science and forestry programs provide youth with field-based learning and hands-on doing, and Conservation Education Days engages Carlton County’s 5th graders in field-based learning about their environment, including travel to 11 different stations. Forestry Adventure Days uses the outdoors as a classroom to excite kids about science and forestry, and summer sessions are offered for ages 3–12 as campers and ages 13–18 as assistants, with K–12 field trips arranged upon request with specialized topics.
Conservation Education Days began in 1968, and the Cloquet Forestry Center has been the primary research and education forest for the University of Minnesota since 1909. Conservation Education Days relies on a partnership between the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center, Carlton County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, and Sappi. The Cloquet Forestry Center is home to the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative and the Minnesota Tree Improvement Cooperative, and it also houses the University of Minnesota Extension Regional Office, Cloquet, which works with the local community on issues related to rural health, natural resources, and education. The University of Minnesota and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are moving forward with the return of the Cloquet Forestry Center land, and the University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
Questions about youth programs can be directed to Rachael Olesiak, with Kyle Gill serving as Forest Manager and Research Coordinator and Eli Sagor serving as Associate Extension Professor with the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative. The program is supported by gifts that help get more students into the forest to learn about the environment and natural resources.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
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