Digby school team defending title at Envirothon

Fourteen teams are vying for the right to represent their province at the North American Envirothon in Flagstaff, Arizona, from July 28 to Aug. 3.

Digby has won the Nova Scotia title every year since 1998, excepting 2001 and 2004.

The Nova Scotia competition wraps up Saturday.

Over the next two months, student teams from eight provinces and one territory will take part in written and field tests, and deliver oral presentations as part of the preliminary provincial and territorial competitions, working towards the chance to represent their province or territory at the Canon Envirothon in Arizona.

Last year, more than 500,000 teenagers from across North America took part. Fifty-two teams, eight from Canada and 44 from the U.S., competed in the envirothon in Geneva, N.Y. Envirothon competitions are comprised of five testing and training stations and an oral presentation component that test environmental knowledge in five key areas: soil and land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife, and this year's theme issue recreational impacts on natural resources.

www.envirothon.org