Idaho History

Bennett and I worked all night on his Idaho history project. Thank goodness it is now done!! I wanted to do something easier, but Bennett was quick to remind me that, "it's MY project Mom, not yours!" So we made a mountain, and a train, and a forest, all to symbolize the timber industry in the early Idaho days. He learned how workers would cut down whole forests and then move to the next without even thinking about what they were doing, and pretty soon Idaho was running out of trees, and many of the smaller timber companies had to call it quits. They finally realized they had to plant new trees when they would cut others down. It was about this time that President Roosevelt established national forests, to protect our forest land. I bet you didn't know all that, I didn't. Bennett thought it was funny that he knew more about Idaho history then me, I had to keep reminding him that I grew up in Seattle not Rigby!! He is very proud of his project and I am very glad it is done. Hopefully it makes it to school in one piece!