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Boundary County Middle School eighth grader Aryanna Beyers uses a clinometer to measure trees Thursday morning during the Idaho State Forestry Contest at Farragut State Park.

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Students sharpen timber skills at Idaho State Forestry Contest
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Students sharpen timber skills at Idaho State Forestry Contest

Students sharpen timber skills at Idaho State Forestry Contest

Cruising around a tall pine with a small measuring tape, Ava Stone examined the numbers and wrote them down on a paper secured to her clipboard. "It's the diameter, and then you take a clinometer from the 66 foot back and then the 100 foot back, then you look up and get the height to find out the board foot volume," she said Thursday morning.