2002 Teachers' Tours Scrapbook: Lewiston, Idaho

2002 Intermountain Region Teachers' Tour Scrapbook

July 10-13, 2002

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[Wednesday] : [Thursday] : [Friday] : [Saturday]

Friday Morning: Potlatch Complex

Teachers arrive at the Potlatch Lewiston Complex

Bales of paper rejects from Potlatch's Las Vegas factory wait to be recycled back into paper

Chip piles contain the raw materials to produce paper pulp

Paper rejects from Potlatch's Las Vegas factory get mixed with raw pulp to make new paper products

A view of one of Potlatch's paper machines

In the control room, teachers saw how the paper machines were monitored

Teachers listen and learn about the paper machine controls

Teachers learn about the 4-color presses where paper towels receive their colorful designs

Teachers watch technicians print designs onto paper towels

Teachers learn more about the designs that go on paper towels

Teachers examine the huge printed parent rolls before they are converted into individual rolls

Teachers saw how this machine created the cores for paper rolls

Converting is where

Tour participants saw how paper products were packaged

Parent rolls for tissue products

Parent rolls waiting to be converted

One of Potlatch's 3 warehouses where half a million cases of paper products are stored

Teachers watch as a disintegration test is performed on Potlatch products

Teachers learn about the differences between various types of paper products

Teachers ask questions about Potlatch's product testing

Paper waste from the various factory processes are sent back to be repulped

Friday Morning: Potlatch Nursery

A view of Potlatch's Nursery

Abbie Acuff talks to teachers about Tamarack and Lodgepole Pine saplings

Abbie in the nursery telling teachers about growing trees

A rare picture of a wild Aurelius roaming the Potlatch Nursery

Deb, Michael, and Dave inspect the seedlings

Some grafted trees in Abbie's nursery

If you get down level with the planter boxes it looks like a miniature forest

A view of the saplings in the nursery

More saplings in Abbie's nursery

Teachers listen to Abbie talk about her trees

Teacher's walk among the nurseries

Teachers get some hands on time with the saplings

Renee, Steve, and Rick talk about the saplings

Ron and Kevin

Friday Afternoon: Clearwater Ranger Station

Christine talks to teachers about watershed restoration and road obliteration

Christine, Annie, and Steve welcome teachers to the Clearwater Ranger District

Linda A. and Bob at the Clearwater Ranger Station

Clearwater Ranger Station sign

Steve Petro talks to teachers about US Forest Service forest management practices

Friday Lunch: Big Eddy at Dworshak Dam

Billie, Russ, and Heather from the US Army Corps of Engineers helped host lunch

Idaho Tour Teachers enjoying the view at Big Eddy

Heather Burke of the US Army Corp of Engineers presents to teachers

Fred goes for a dip in the Big Eddy swim area

Teachers' Tour participants enjoy a nice lunch at Big Eddy

Big Eddy has a nice swim area that was very tempting in the 100+ weather

Teachers study the trail map at Big Eddy

Friday Afternoon: Clearwater Fish Hatchery

Adult Chinook Salmon captured for spawning

Aerial View of Clearwater Hatchery from near Dworshak Visitors Center

Teachers got to view the incubator tanks where baby Chinook are grown

Teachers viewing Marking Truck where hatchery fish are marked before release

One of the holding tanks for adult fish

Teachers viewing the adult fish holding tanks

Teachers viewed a slide show on the history of the Clearwater Hatcheries

The Clearwater Hatchery has displays about salmon habitat

Close up of Chinook Salmon Smolts in the hatchery raceways

Close up of Chinook Salmon Smolts in the hatchery raceways

Baby Chinooks get a chance to practice jumping in the raceways

Friday Afternoon: C-PTPA

Teachers got a chance to view the cockpit of C-PTPA's Jet Ranger helicopter

C-PTPA's helicopter getting ready for take-off

C-PTPA's helicopter lifting off for Teachers' Tour participants

C-PTPA's helicopter heading out to fill its Bambi Bucket

C-PTPA's copter demonstrates a bambi bucket in action

C-PTPA's helicopter dropping a load of water for Teachers' Tour participants

A view of C-PTPA's office in Headquarters, Idaho

C-PTPA pilot Johnny shows off the Jet Ranger and Bambi Bucket to Teachers' Tour participants

C-PTPA pilot Johnny in front of the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter with Bambi Bucket for fire fighting

Pilots Johnny and Ray discuss helicopter firefighting for C-PTPA

C-PTPA's aerial runway at Headquarters, Idaho

C-PTPA's plane taking off for a demonstration flight

C-PTPA has several trucks for use in fire fighting

Friday Afternoon: Walker Grove/Potlatch Plantation

Bev tries to wrap her arms around an old cedar

Bill, Royce, and Dan in front of Walker Park

Harold demonstrates how an increment borer is used to estimate the age of trees

Harold pulls a core from an increment borer

The cedars of Walker's Park

Dan takes in the height of the Walker's Park Red Cedars

Bob shows how to take the diameter at breast height (DBH) measurement on a cedar

Teachers hiking up into Walker's Park

Amid the cedars in Walker's Park

Teachers try to figure out how many people it takes to surround a cedar (6)

Deb, Charlene, and Shannon surround a cedar in Walker's Park

Royce Cox addresses teachers on the bus to dinner

__ illustrates Potlatch's Plantation boundaries

Shot 1 of 3 of a panorama of Potlatch's Idaho Plantation

Shot 2 of 3 of a panorama of Potlatch's Idaho Plantation

Shot 3 of 3 of a panorama of Potlatch's Idaho Plantation

Friday Dinner: Potlatch Headquarters

Elwin Hutchins (left) presents teachers with a parting gift (with the help of Ron)

Potlatch office in Headquarters, Idaho

Teachers enjoyed a great BBQ dinner at Headquarters

Elwin Hutchins brought his 'World's Smallest Sawmill' to show to teachers

Teachers marvel at the miniature sawmill

Elwin demonstrates the sawmill's log edger

Elwin Hutchins brought his 'World's Smallest Sawmill' to show to teachers

Elwin's sawmill has a working log conveyor

Click here to see a scrapbook from last year's Intermountain Teachers' Tour.

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