Registration

Our first order was picking up nametags and....

getting that final snooze ... while reading the newspaper

Conference Room

Our conference room at the Holiday Inn was decorated with

fragrant branches of pine, wax myrtle, sassafras, pine cones, candy and peanuts.

Many of the companies and organizations involved

with the Teachers’ Tour places exhibits in the conference room.

Opening Orientation

Our first afternoon started with a tour over-view and a Project Learning Tree

workshop conducted by Cindy Ybos, Alan Small, Don Smith and Jim Culpepper.

Cindy began with a KWL about forests...

then we introduced ourselves in the icebreaker...

then PLT Activities were selected to enhance and connect to many of the stops...

Every Tree for It Self" to learn about competition....

and about resources in "Renewable or Not" . . .

before heading to dinner at the Southern Forest Heritage Museum in historic Longleaf, LA

        

Longleaf, LA is a restored sawmill town built in 1892. Arriving at

Longleaf we enjoyed a great bar-b-que dinner sponsored by Roy O. Martin Lumber Co.

Tom Prince discusses the old Crowell sawmill and how it operated.

       

Teachers had an opportunity to view a film about early logging and visit the commissary and exhibit with old records, tools and journals about Longleaf.

  

The museum has 3 old steam engines, and "Clyde" a railroad skidding machine from the early days

    

We took a ride through the forest on a restored track

Roy O. Martin Hardwood Mill

    

Our first stop was Martco’s woodyard that supplies raw material for the Oriented Strand Board plant and Hardwood Sawmill

    

Bill Wieger discusses the woodyard...

learning how logs are cut...

and, sawn into boards using lasers to align the boards...

        

eventually grading the lumber