Wednesday Afternoon and Evening
The tour began at the Michigan Technical Education Center (M-Tec) at Bay College with an orientation followed by dinner at the Hereford & Hops Restaurant and Brewery.
Registration
2003 Lake States Teachers' Tour participants were lodged at the Super 8 Motel in
Escanaba. As teachers arrived throughout the day on Wednesday they checked into
their rooms and registered for the tour with the foundation staff.
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Orientation at the Michigan Technical Education Center (M-Tec)
At 5PM teachers were shuttled from the hotel to the
The Michigan Technical Education Center at Bay College for the tour's orientation
(and Saturday closing presentation.) Bob Legg, President of the Temperate
Forest Foundation welcomed teachers and gave the tour introduction.
Keynote Presentation
Introductions were followed by a keynote presentation by Bill Cook. Bill offered teachers a primer to Michigan's Upper Peninsula including Forest History and Facts, geology, forest ecology, common species, silviculture, Harvest Systems...see http://forestry.msu.edu/msaf/TFF-UPforest.htm.
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Sponsored Dinner at the Hereford & Hops Restaurant and Brewery
Dinner for Teachers' Tour participants
was sponsored by Partek Forest,
Inc.
Hereford and Hops is Michigan's Upper Peninsula’s first brewpub and the state’s
first charcoal grill-your-own restaurant.
Hereford & Hops Restaurant & Brewpub opened in December 1994, dedicated
to fostering the tradition of the "neighborhood pub," a place where friends
and family can meet and relax, make new acquaintances and comfortably escape the
daily grind for a while. Dinner includes: choice of walleye (fish), steaks,
kabobs, and chicken. There was also be a potato bar/salad bar
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