Connor Sports® Hosts Responsible Forestry Event with The Nature Conservancy for Newberry, MI School Students to Tip-Off Production of the 2017 NCAA® Men's and Women's Final Four Official Courts

Newberry, MI (Nov. 4, 2016) – Connor Sports® hosted a responsible forestry education event here today in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Newberry (MI) School District to begin the production process for the custom courts that will manufactured at Connor’s mill in Amasa, MI for the 2017 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four.

The event held at the Newberry school, and later, at the 5,000 acre Tahquamenon School District Forest focused on providing a fun and real-world way to learn about responsible forestry for more than 400 Newberry students as part of the process of harvesting the timber for the 2017 Final Four courts.  The event was highlighted by the felling of the first tree from the timber harvest that will continue through the next week in the Eastern Upper Peninsula in Michigan to supply the raw materials necessary for court production.

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