USU Adjunct Professor attends Signing Ceremony
When Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert signed a bill before a group of elementary school children in a mock ceremony that officially changed Utah’s state tree to the quaking aspen, a Utah State University adjunct professor was on hand.
Paul C. Rogers, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Wildland Resources and director or the Western Aspen Alliance, attend the ceremony that capped the students’ efforts.
The ceremony took place at Monroe Elementary in Sevier County after students there spearheaded efforts to officially change the state’s tree from the Colorado blue spruce to a tree found throughout the state of Utah, the quaking aspen.
The ceremony received media attention around the state, including Logan’s Herald Journal in a story by higher education reporter Kevin Opsahl.
While the students organized the successful effort, Rogers’ expertise was called upon when he, along with another Extension specialist, spoke to a legislative committee about the proposed legislation, Opsahl reported.
Read the full story in Logan’s Herald Journal.
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Contact: Paul C. Rogers, (435) 797-0194, p.rogers@usu.edu
USU adjunct professor Paul Rogers. (photo courtesy Paul Rogers, Western Aspen Alliance)
Elementary school children in Utah had a hands-on civics lesson when they initiated a move to make the quaking aspen Utah's state tree replacing the Colorado blue spruce. (photo courtesy Paul Rogers, Western Aspen Alliance)
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