Teachers Conservation Institute (TCI)
Every summer the Texas Forestry Association sponsors the Teachers Conservation Institute, a week long summer camp for educators which introduces them to the cycle of the forest. Activities throughout the week include training in Project Learning Tree and Project WILD; tours of a forest nursery, seed orchard, logging operation, forest products mills, a Tree Farm and the Texas Forestry Museum; as well as tree and leaf identification and nature walks.Foresters, educators, natural resource conservationists, and industry professionals lead activities. TCI is held at the Piney Woods Conservation Center in Broaddus, Texas. The facility is 60 miles east of Lufkin and Nacogdoches.
Participants receive 45 hours of SBEC and TEEAC credit. Registration per person, including all teaching materials and instruction, food and lodging, and transportation during the workshop is $100. The Texas Forestry Association supplements the remaining costs. Three hours of graduate credit is available through Stephen F. Austin State University.
All sessions are usually full by early spring so register early.For more information, call 936/632-TREE or e-mail cstanco@texasforestry.org
