please recycle after use ISBN No Pub No. I/271 September 2015

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2 his book belongs to: Welcome to ou Junio oest Waden lub. We have all kinds of exciting activities planned fo the ea. ome along and join us while we lean about oest, colog, utdoo kills and eadeship! Welcome to utdoos, t's ous! - the activit book that will take ou on an exciting outdoo adventue! evelop ou skills and unlock the fun and benefits of natue with ou guides, as the teach ou about lbeta's fish, bids, tees, animals, land and much moe. u natual envionment is impotant to us all - fom the man plants and animals that call it home, to those who use it each and eve da. t is an amazing place whee thee is so much to see and do! woking togethe to look afte lbeta's natual esouces, we can be sue to enjo them fo eas to come. omplete the activities in this book to lean how ou can make a diffeence! f ou like being outdoos, leaning about natue and spending time with famil and fiends, get out and get active with Junio oest Wadens. Hiking, canoeing, climbing and snowshoeing ae some of the cool activities the ae involved in. hae a love of ou natual esouces and celebate natue with Junio oest Wadens! o find out moe, visit thei website. did ou know hee ae Junio oest Waden clubs all acoss lbeta, and even clubs in itish olumbia, askatchewan and ewfoundland. will give ou instuctions on how to do the ailblaze activities. will give ou instuctions on how to do the the athfinde activities. uke M: : 11 eas V: ailblaze (gades 4-6) VU JW V: Winte amps Heathe M: : adult V: eade VU JW V: anoeing atie M: : 9 eas V: athfinde (gades 1-3) VU JW V: atue Walks

3 wildlife detective ecome a wildlife detective b cicling all the wildlife clues and animals ou spot in the pictue. wildlife clue might be an animal home, o a place whee an animal has slept o ate. hee ae a total of 17 wildlife clues and animals hidden in this pictue. n club hikes, we sometimes petend to be wildlife detectives looking fo signs that animals have been in the aea. hese signs include tacks, doppings, holes in tees, nests and fu and ub maks left on tees. Help me match the animal to the sign the have left behind. signs of wildlife 1. did ou know n ee, an owl is known as an H (ponouced hoo hoo), which sounds ve much like the hooting of an owl. he ee people believed oeal wl whistles wee summons fom spiits. wls wee espected fo thei geat hunting skills. 2.

4 ll living things need food o eneg to suvive. lants ae able to make thei own food b using eneg fom the sun. When a plant is eaten, some of its eneg is passed on to the animal that eats it, but a lot is lost. food pamid shows how eneg is lost at each level. o make sue thee is enough eneg at the top level, moe plants and animals ae equied at the lowe levels. M used b eaten b We ll animals need eneg in ode to suvive. foodchain, like the one below, shows what an animal eats to get its eneg. Use the animals in the box below to daw ou own food chain. eaten b used b eaten b eaten b Help me fill in the food pamid b tacing and colouing the plants o animals at each eneg level. n the eal wold, things ae not this simple because an animal eats moe than one tpe of food and is eaten b moe than one animal. food web, like this one, is a little moe detailed and gives a bette pictue of the elationships between some plants and animals. nl 10% of the eneg is passed onto the next level

5 We ae going fishing this weekend! We ae leaning how to ead the lbeta potfishing egulations which tells us the size, tpe and numbe of fish that we ae able to catch. H Help me lean the diffeence between some species of tout b making them the ight colou. = ellow = ed b = blue = black ee at isk biologist told us about some of lbeta s species at isk. We leaned about what causes some animal populations to shink, and what we can do to help save ou plants and animals at isk. aw a line fom the species at isk to thei habitat and discove what action is being taken to estoe thei population. 5. he ull out is ou povincial fish but in ode to help incease low populations, the can not be kept if caught. ull out have no black spots on thei dosal (top) fin, so emembe if thee is, U. f ou ae unde the age of 16, ou can fish fo fee, but be sue to fish with a babless hook. babless hook ull out ook out ainbow out b b b b b b potect old gowth foests iping love othen eopad og potect native gasslands Whooping ane Woodland aibou umpete wan did ou know ou can help wildlife b building bid houses, potecting nests, doing wate studies, picking up gabage, planting tees, avoiding sensitive aeas and telling othes what ou have leaned. potect wetlands euginous Hawk uowing wl educe human distubances 6.

6 wildfie watchouts wildland fiefighte came to ou last meeting to show us some fiefighting equipment and talk about fighting foest fies. He told us thee ae seveal diffeent was a wildfie can stat. Help me connect the dots to discove some of the things that can stat a wildfie. ee He ee W t ou last campout, leaned some steps to safel enjo a campfie. o ou know them? ead the caption below each pictue and put the steps in ode. nce the steps ae in ode, wite the lette fom each pictue in the coect space to discove the secet wod. # # # # f thee is no fie pit available, find a suitable site on flat gound awa fom d gass, leaves, tee tunks and ove-hanging tee banches. ight ou fie. eve use lighte fluid o gasoline on ou fie. fte choosing ou site, make sue fiefighting equipment is available and close b. # W # 7. Wildfie is anothe wa to sa foest fie. Wildfies ae a pat of health foests, but the can sometimes theaten communities and endange people's lives. When ou ae out enjoing the foest, be sue to watch ou campfie at all times and make sue it is completel out when ou ae done. f ou spot a wildfie, epot it b calling njo ou campfie esponsibl. eep it small and attended at all times. # est to make sue the fie is out. Hold ou hand above the ashes and if ou don t feel an heat, touch the ashes to be sue the campfie is out. heck the fie hazad fo the aea to see if thee ae an fie bans. did ou know Junio oest Wadens who epot a wildfie o help extinquish one can ean the ie Honou badge. o put the fie out, soak it with wate, sti it up, then soak it with wate again. 8.

7 ee s ge hee ae man things that can ham o kill plants and cause a foest to change ove time. Help me decode some things that distub foest gowth b using the chat below. ve ea a tee adds a new gowth ing next to the bak. counting these ings ou can tell how old a tee is. slice fom acoss the tunk of a tee that shows its ings is called a tee cookie. maked the ea when was bon b counting in nine ings fom the cente. Wh don't ou mak dates that ae impotant to ou, like the ea ou wee bon o the ea ou stated school? atie s ge ee ee a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q s t u v w x z also called invasive plants, can pevent oung tees and othe plants fom gowing b using up nutients and wate, and b blocking sunlight fom eaching oung plants. ou don't have to chop down a tee to tell how old it is. tool called an incement boe allows ou to detemine a tee's age. he incement boe, which looks like a metal staw, cuts a thin clinde of wood out of the tee. nce the tube is emoved fom the incement boe the ings can be counted. incement boe ae small insects that can kill olde pine tees within a ea b tunnelling unde the bak and tansmitting a disease that stains the wood blue. he can kill lage aeas of pine foest ve quickl. f ou see ellow o ed coloued pine tees epot them b calling 310-U is a ve impotant pat of a foest's natual ccle. t can kill tees, but also eleases impotant nutients that help foests gow and change ove time. ome tees, like pine, need the intense heat to open thei cones and elease the seeds inside is a paasitic plant that uses pine tees as food. t causes the banches of the tee to swell and clump togethe like a witch's boom. his slows the tee's gowth and ma even kill it. did ou know n 1984, the effots of Junio oest Wadens fom acoss the povince helped make the odgepole ine lbeta's povincial tee. 10.

8 oests cove about 60% of the povince and ae impotant to man lbetans. oest uses e oest use oest ndust Mountain ine eetle hee ae man diffeent foest uses and man diffeent factos influencing the foest. he tpe of foest that one use pefes is often diffeent fom othe uses. Help me put the lette of the use and the numbe of its matching use in the boxes below. 1 2 c HV Use ie 1. hese insects pefe pine foests between 80 and 120 eas of age and can kill these tees within a ea, making wa fo new foests. use use use use 5. he pefe a foest whee health tees gow quickl. his helps to ceate 50,000 jobs and is impotant in 50 communities thoughout lbeta. 3 4 eceational Use aibou 2. his pefes a d foest whee it can kill most of the tees and desto human stuctues. t makes the ai smok but also helps to ceate a new oung foest. 6. hese uses take advantage of cleaed aeas in the foest that have been designated fo thei eceational activit his lage mammal with antles pefes olde foests whee eating lichen helps them to suvive the winte. 7. hese uses pefe a wildeness feeling to the foest whee thee is minimal impact fom othe eceational uses and indust. ow id H ea his mammal pefes a ounge foest whee thee ae moe open spaces, gasses, beies and fast gowing plants which the eat. 8. foest with cleaed paths, like oads and cut-lines, allow this paiie bid into the foest whee it las eggs in unsuspecting bids nests

9 lthough live in town, we have had some unwanted wildlife in ou ad. ish & Wildlife ffice told ou club about some was that we might be attacting wildlife to ou houses. We paticipate in a whole bunch of neat activities with ou club and we lean how to do them safel, while ting not to distub the land, wate, vegetation and wildlife. icle ten things that might be attacting wildlife, like beas and cootes, to m house. Help me find the eight diffeences between the two pictues. Which pictue do ou think shows a moe esponsible use of ou wildeness? 13. f a coote eve appoaches ou don t tun and un it ma chase ou. Hee ae some things ou can do to scae the coote so it uns awa. Make ouself look big wave ou ams ove ou head. f ou ae caing a walking stick; swing it aound. how ocks, sticks o othe objects. a a whistle and blow it to statle the animal. hout in a deep voice and maintain ee contact. 14.

10 Want to lean the basics of a compass? f ou follow the compass diections coectl, ou'll make it back to camp without unning into an obstacles. f ou do get into touble, ou'll have to go back to the stat and t again. tat in the southwest cone and walk 5 squaes east. hen tun noth and tavel 4 squaes. o west 1 squae. Walk noth 2 squaes, then east 5 squaes. oss the bidge and move noth 1 squae and then notheast to camp. o pepae fo m next camping tip am leaning how to ead a map. id ou know the cuv lines on a map ae called contou lines and if the ae fa apat, the land is fail flat, but if the ae close togethe, it means the land is hill o mountainous? est ou map knowledge b dawing a line between the eal wold pictue and the map epesentation. ou can use the legend to help ou figue out the map smbols. legend mountain top oad aiload ive bidge wetland aea/ pond cliff lake eal wold maps hee ae fou main diections on a compass noth, east, south and west, and a compass will alwas point noth. n eas wa to emembe the fou diections is: stat hee using a compass popel ou can tell which diection ou ae going and avoid getting lost

11 9 UH Miss one tun ake a Hie ailhead boad game 1 tat 26 ou fogot to tell a esponsible adult whee ou wee going. o back to the stat When we go on hikes, we have to make sue we ae popel pepaed. his means making sue we have enough wate and wam clothes, and telling someone whee we ae going. ee how pepaed ou ae b hiking aound the boad with us. efoe plaing ou will need to collect: ne place make fo each plae (ou can cut out the makes in the answe ke o use a small stone, pine cone o coin) and a six-sided dice ou an out of dinking wate and ae getting thist. o back to the stat to get wate. ou decided to take the shot loop of the hiking tail, advance to the othe side. HW : he oungest plae olls fist. oll the dice and move that numbe of squaes. ollow the diections on the squae ou land on and then let the next plae oll. o each the tailhead ou must oll the exact numbe. he fist plae to etun to the tailhead is the winne. ood luck and have fun! ou packed ouself a high eneg snack fo the tail, advance two spaces. 13 ou picked up some litte left b othe hikes and packed it out. oll again ou didn't follow the map and lost ou wa. Miss one tun. 25 nothe hike has been injued, but ou emembeed to bing ou fist aid kit. dvance one space ou pevent eosion the designated dvance one helped b staing on tail. space ops! ou fogot ou camea on the picnic table at lunch. o back to get it an ou find the 15 bugs hiding along the tail? 18.

12 ext ea am going to be and will be old enough to go on the outeach! can't wait to go and t. head that at the sometimes go at a pool, go fo a hike o watch the. am so excited can hadl wait! ind a wod ee if ou can find all of these wods in the wodseach below. Junio oest Wadens teaches us how to wok coopeativel with othes and how to become good leades. uke and made a list of all the wods we think of when we think of a good leade. o help atie and uke feel comfotable speaking in public, asked them to tell a sto about Junio oest Wadens at ou campfie. ast ea, got to go to a summe camp. t was awesome! got to in a. We went and almost eve da. leaned how to cook on a and how to use a. t we would sing aound the and tell ghost stoies. had so much fun being outdoos and making new fiends can't wait to go back this summe! 12 H H Z HU Me e U Q W X W V M J J X H U M Q Q V Q M H X Z H H Z M J Z W X U U M V V Q J M Z U V H V

13 inishing this cosswod puzzle is the last thing we need to do in ode to ean ou oest, colog, utdoo kills and eadeship badges. Help us to finish the cosswod and ean ou badges. ll the the answes ae found somewhee in this activit book o not tun awa o un if this animal appoaches. 2. eve at lim helps ou to emembe the fou diections on a compass. 3. ange o ed coloued pine tees ma be a sign of this insect. 4. u povincial fish which does not have black spots on its dosal fin. H U W 2. ou would call 310- to epot this. 5. lbeta s povincial tee ecentage of eneg passed on to the next level of the food pamid. 7. he badge Junio oest Wadens ean fo epoting a wildfie. 8. he tpe of hook ou should use when fishing. 9. ecentage of lbeta coveed b foests. 10. he name of an owl in ee. U! ou have completed the activit book and have eaned ou oest, colog, utdoo kills and eadeship badges. e sue to colou them blue if ou ae a athfinde, o geen if ou ae a ailblaze

14 Ue H M M ut on the dotted lines and fold in half V V e sp 23. windsock ecome a weathe foecaste b making a windsock o b pedicting the weathe using natual indicatos! M W U W : ape encil caons o wax caons eaves, flowes o bak taple teames (3, each 25 cm) ibbon o sting ( 25 cm) U: ange flowes, leaves o bak on a flat suface and place a sheet of pape on top. Make a ubbing using pencil caons o wax caons. oll the pape into a clinde and staple it togethe. ttach the steames to the bottom of the clinde and the ibbon o sting to the top using the staple. Hang ou windsock outside in a location whee it can move feel and can be easil seen. U WH nsect eating bids feed highe in good weathe and lowe when a stom is appoaching. ounds ca futhe when wet weathe is on the wa and the smell of vegetation becomes moe distinctive befoe the aival of ain. ow fling geese mean that bad weathe ma be appoaching. halo aound the moon o the sun tells of appoaching ain o snow. ickets can be used to detemine the ai tempeatue. he hotte the da, the moe a cicket chips. ount the numbe of chips ou hea in 15 seconds, divide this numbe b 2 and add 6 ou can detemine the appoximate tempeatue in degees elsius. ttact butteflies to ou gaden b setting up a homemade feede. M U U W : shallow containe, such as a pie plate few bight ellow and oange sponges o kitchen scouing pads ape towel o make the buttefl food ou will need: n adults help 2 cups of wate 1/2 cup of suga small pot U: buttefl feede Mix the suga and wate togethe in a small pot. ing it to a boil fo a few minutes until the suga is full dissolved. emove it fom the heat and let it cool. nce the solution is cool, pou it into a shallow containe with the pape towels until the ae satuated with the solution. lacing the bight ellow and oange kitchen scouing pads in the solution will attact butteflies and give them a esting place while the dink. he feede should be placed on a post about 4-6 inches above the tallest flowes in ou gaden. ou can stoe exta solution in ou efigeato fo up to a week. bid watching quading canoeing camping mountain biking fishing hunting hoseback iding swimming M black bea moose coote caibou dee bison squiel cow J anche (agicultue) mining machine opeato (mining) tee cutte felle bunche opeato (foest) lookout obseve (govenment) oil and gas woke (eneg) tail ide guide (touism) gas attendant (sevice indust) wildlife eseaches (scientist) logging tuck dive (foest) tee plante (foest) iddles elow ae some of m favouite natue iddles. an ou guess the answes? 1) How do abbits keep thei fu neat? 2) What did one shub sa to the othe shub? 3) What did the mothe wom sa to the little wom who was late? 4) Wh ae cads like wolves? 5) Wh is the lette "" like a flowe? 6) What animals ae well educated? 7) What did one insect sa to the othe insect? 8) What did the tee sa to the axe? 24.

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