Dinner at Southern Forest Heritage Museum
Long Leaf, LA

Long Leaf, Louisiana is a restored sawmill and town built in 1892.
Arriving at Long Leaf, we enjoyed a great dinner with beer and wine

    
Don Powell discusses the museums relics from the past,
like these saws from the 'pre-chainsaw' days and this shingle maker.

...heading down the hill toward the commissary, we begin our tour

    
We took a ride through the forests on a restored track...

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

Henry Taves shows off a recently restored steam engine

The old sawmill provides a great contrast for the teachers,
who will be visiting an extremely modern facility in the morning

The museums first job was to reclaim the mill back from the surrounding forest

We finished up in the commissary, looking at exhibits and shopping

Later that evening...

    
Jimmy Culpepper introduces the Project Learning Tree program to the teachers with the help of Cindy Ybos

The first evening the teachers participated in a PLT activity
about the wise use of natural resources

There were all given a PLT certificate and workbook during the tour,
and also a sheet connecting tour stops to related activities in the book