Asheville,
North Carolina
2000
Southeastern Region Teachers' Tour
14 - 17 June, 2000
Friday
16 June, 2000
Asheville, NC Teachers'
Tour Homepage
List
of Hosts |
Wednesday
Orientation
Balsam Mt. Inn -
dinner |
Thursday
Bent
Creek
Biltmore Estate
- lunch
Ethan Allen
Columbia Carolina
Mt. Smokehouse -
dinner |
Friday
T
& S Hardwoods
Jackson Paper
Blue Ridge Pkwy
- lunch
Cradle of Forestry
Taylor Ranch -
dinner |
Saturday
Closing
& Evaluation |
T
& S Hardwoods, Inc
Friday
morning started with a visit to T & S Hardwoods in Sylva, North
Carolina.
Doug
Roe welcomes teachers to T & S Hardwoods.
Logs
are kept watered down until they're brought into the mill.
Every
log received at T & S is individually scaled in the yard.
Teachers mill around in the ...mill yard.
Jodi
Coulson stands next to the saws used in the head-rig,
as Doug leads us through the saw shop
Computers
are used to monitor mill operations.
The
head-rig is what saws the boards from the 4 log faces.
Lasers
are used to optimize each board, which is then sorted into different sizes
and grades.
In the
sorting yard, graders check all the lumber before its stacked and prepared
for the customer.
Jackson
Paper
Our
next visit was to Jackson Paper in Sylva.
Old Corrugated Containers will be re-pulped into new Corrugated
Containers.
Blue
Ridge Parkway
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for a larger version of this image
Cradle
of Forestry in America
National Historic Site
Friday
afternoon we visited Pisgah Forest and the Cradle of
Forestry.
This is where Gifford Pinchot (the first Chief of the Forest Service)
began the practice of Forestry in America.
We were
met by Cindy Neal Carpenter,
Interpretive Specialist for the USDA Forest Service
Biltmore Forest School in 1905
Taylor
Ranch
Friday's dinner was outdoors, at Taylor Ranch, home of the Mountain Style Party.
Visit them online at www.taylorranch.com
Jody
Steele (sponsored by Willamette Industries), Frankie and Jim Epperson
(current President of North American Wholesale Lumber Association), and
Michael
& Alexandra Shadroui (sponsored by Jim's company, Epperson
Lumber Sales)
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