Welcome to the 2005 South-Central Teachers' Tour Homepage
June 15-18 based
in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Schedule
Lodging and Transportation
Tour participants will be lodged at the
Comfort Inn & Suites in Hot Springs,
Arkansas.
-Teachers can arrive at the Hot Springs airport (HOT) or the Little Rock
airport (LIT).
-Transportation from and then back to the airport is provided; teachers are
asked to submit a transportation information sheet and then we make the shuttle
arrangements.
-For those flying into Hot Springs:
Arrival flights need to be in Hot Springs by 3:30pm on Wednesday, June 15th
Return flights need to be departing no earlier than 1:00pm on Saturday, June
18th
-For those of you flying
into Little Rock:
Arrival flights need to be in Little Rock by 3:00pm on
Wednesday
Return flights need to be departing no earlier than 1:30pm on
Saturday
-All Tour participants need to arrive at the hotel no later than 4:30pm on Wednesday to check-in, register with us, and be ready for orientation starting at 5:00pm.
-Throughout
the Tour, bus transportation is provided by Ouachita
Coaches
-Please remember that any hotel or transportation expenses incurred
prior to Wednesday or after Saturday afternoon are the responsibility of you and
your sponsor.
Registration and Orientation
Upon arriving to
the
Comfort Inn & Suites on Wednesday, participants can first check-in to
their hotel rooms, and then stop by the conference room on the main level to
receive tour registration packets and to meet the Foundation's
staff.
The Tour officially begins with orientation in the conference room at 5:00pm for all participants. You'll receive an overview of the tour
from the Foundation's Product-Market Development Manager, Morgan
Holen, and get an opportunity to meet hosts and fellow participants.
Following
orientation, Tour participants board the tour bus to travel a short distance to
the Garvan Woodland Gardens. At the
Gardens, we will be joined by several
interpretive guides for a fascinating walk around some of the 210-acre forested
peninsula. Dinner will be served in the Gardens, and is sponsored by
Weyerhaeuser.
Following dinner, participants return to the
Comfort Inn & Suites
to rest up
for the big days ahead!
Saturday Morning Wrap-Up and Evaluations
The
Tour concludes on Saturday, usually around 10am, following a wrap-up
presentation and written and oral evaluations. Within a few weeks, all
Teachers' Tour graduates receive a Certificate of Participation and an
interactive CD scrapbook containing images from their trip, as well as contact
information for everyone they met on Tour, and much, much more. In
addition, Teachers' Tour graduates are eligible to receive continuing education
credits from their schools and may apply for one undergraduate or graduate level
credit from the University of Idaho.
Some Resources for Tour Participants
-The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce
-Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau
-Arkansas Forestry Association
-Arkansas
State Parks
-University of
Arkansas, Arkansas Forests
-For some background statistics on the Forest and Paper industry in Arkansas, read the American Forest & Paper
Association's, Arkansas Forest & Paper Industry At a Glance
publication (you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to
view).
Pictures from the 2004 South-Central Teachers' Tour based in Hot Springs,
Arkansas
From
top left, clockwise: Tour participants learn about forest management
on Weyerhaeuser's land; 2004 Teachers' Tour Graduates visit Petit Jean State
Park; Tour participants explore Garvan Woodland Gardens with an interpretive
guide; participants got to see mechanized logging with Plum Creek--here is a
single-grip processor; participants visit the International Paper seedling
nursery; participants tour Bibler Brother's Sawmill.
Questions?
Call
our office at (503) 579-6762 or send an e-mail to office@forestinfo.org.
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