In 1991, the Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) to support and enhance Oregon’s forest products industry. The state agency provides forest and forest management education programs for the public, K-12 teachers and students, and forest landowners.
Since 2020, Parallel has supported all OFRI’s online properties including building a new learnforests.org. Parallel replaced an aging Drupal site with a modern React site connected to a content management system backend. The new site offers hundreds of resources that help educators leverage the forest as a context for teaching that can enrich student learning and extend it beyond the classroom walls.
