| Timberline High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
22869 Highway 11 , | |
| Coordinates | 46°26′07″N115°53′14″W / 46.43528°N 115.88722°W Coordinates: 46°26′07″N115°53′14″W / 46.43528°N 115.88722°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public [1] |
| Established | 1969 [2] |
| School district | Orofino J.S.D. #171 [3] |
| Principal | Jason Hunter [3] |
| Faculty | 7 [3] |
| Grades | 6–12 [3] |
| Enrollment | 109 (2016–17) [4] |
| Color(s) | Black & gold [3] |
| Athletics | IHSAA Class 1A |
| Athletics conference | White Pine League |
| Mascot | Spartan [3] |
| Website | www |
Timberline Schools are a combined elementary and secondary school in Clearwater County, Idaho. Midway between Weippe and Pierce on Highway 11, the schools are operated by the Orofino Joint School District #171, headquartered to the west in Orofino. [3] [5] The school colors are black and gold, and the mascot is a Spartan. [3]
A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools can provide both lower secondary education and upper secondary education, but these can also be provided in separate schools, as in the American middle and high school system.
Clearwater County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,761. The county seat is Orofino. Established in 1911, the county was named after the Clearwater River.
Weippe is a city in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. The population was 441 at the 2010 census, up from 411 in 2000. In September 1805, the starving Lewis and Clark Expedition first met the Nez Perce on the Weippe Prairie, south of the city.
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The school was originally established as a high school. In 1969, a merger of the high schools of the two towns, [6] [7] [8] [9] which dissolved the long-time athletic rivalry between the Pierce Foresters and Weippe Gorillas. [10] [11] In 1979, the Pierce elementary building was built near the high school. In 2007, the Pierce and Weippe elementary schools combined at Timberline. [12] After Timberline opened, the gorilla mascot stayed in Weippe until the junior high closed and moved to Timberline in 1989. A gorilla caricature and large "W" adorn the 76-foot (23 m) high water tower in Weippe in the WHS school colors, red and black. Painted over in 2002, it returned five years later after extended civic debate. [13] [14]
A forester is a person who practices forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to provide a variety of objectives including direct extraction of raw material, outdoor recreation, conservation, hunting and aesthetics. Emerging management practices include managing forestlands for biodiversity, carbon sequestration and air quality.
Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas, and either four or five subspecies. They are the largest living primates. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the chimpanzees and bonobos.
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings.
One of five schools in the school district, [15] THS currently enrolls 70 students in grades 9–12, [3] and about 80 in kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is located only 8 miles from Pierce, Idaho—the oldest city in Idaho. [16]
