The Cal Poly Logging Team took third place at the Association Western Forestry Club’s logging conclave recently held in Corvallis, Oregon. This is the largest event the team competes in and the largest competition west of the Mississippi River. In addition, Kelly Schwenger, a forest and fire sciences third-year student, won the top female competitor award, called the Belle of the Woods. Students also competed in events including dendrology (tree and plant id), tree measurements (without any tools, estimate the diameter, height, and number of logs of trees), and traverse (hand compass and pacing). According to Samantha Gill, the Cal Poly team did so well in these events that after the results were read, the MC of the event said, “Wow, Cal Poly is way smarter than the rest of us.”