Envirothon is an exciting program designed to educate & challenge students with issues related to our environment. It is a combination of classroom & hands-on field experiences that demonstrate the role humans have on important issues related to forestry, wildlife management, water quality, soil erosion, and a current issue that changes every year.

Envirothon is a team-based program. At the beginning of the school year, teams are formed and sponsors identified. Each team, with the assistance of adult advisors, begins studying resource materials to learn the fundamentals of natural resource management in five areas of study. Team advisors (teachers, parents or volunteers) work with the team in planning activities for the year which may include forestry field days, field trips to natural resource and wildlife habitat areas, classroom training, tree planting, presentations by local natural resource experts, or local natural resource related events.

The Envirothon began in the spring of 1979, the creation of three Pennsylvania Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Since then it has spread to other states and countries, leading to the first national Envirothon competition in 1988. Mississippi held its first Envirothon competition in April 1998.