In addition to facilitating informed choices among educators, there
are several benefits for teachers to become involved in the tours.

The tours will help you in the following manner:

• Showing you how sustainable forestry integrates social, economic and ecological needs across the forest landscape;
• Giving you the resources to teach your students about sustainable forestry;
• Putting a human face on the forest products industry;
• Allowing you to ask complex questions of the foresters, biologiests, engineers and top management;
• Helping you see job and career opportunities for your students;
• Teaching you about silviculture, biology and other sciences behind sustainable forestry;
• Helping you understand society's growing need for thousands of different forest products;
• Allowing you to discover where the products you use everyday come from, how they're grown, processed and distributed;
• Giving you the opportunity to network with other teachers from across the region, sharing ideas and experiences, and;
• Helping you understand how important and essential you are in presenting students with information on issues and options that allow them to make informed choices.

The Atlantic Teachers' Tour program is developed with the following key concepts:

• Nature is dynamic: everything is connected and changing.
• Sustainable forestry integrates social, economic and ecological needs.
• Foresters manage large landscapes over long time horizons.
• Forestry is capital intensive.
• Our highest technology is employed in the woods, mills and labs.
• There is complete utilization of the resource.
• We all use wood products.
• Wood is an energy-efficient renewable resource.
• Wood is an environmentally sound building material.
• Regulations protect water, air, soil, fish and wildlife.
• We can meet our material needs while protecting forest ecosystems.
• There are varied career opportunities across the industry.
• We all need to make informed choices.