RANCHING
  Visit a working cattle ranch.

THE FOREST & PEOPLE
  Learn how a forest grows
  Learn how people help rebuild the forest
  See high-tech harvesting in action
  Tour a local sawmill (5th grade & up)
  Participate in Tree Math activities

MINING

  Participate in gold panning
  Learn about Tuolumne County's mining history
  See asphalt batch plant
  Visit an aggregate mining pit
  Visit Blue Mountain Mineral

ENERGY
  Visit ultrapower biomass facility and see how wood chips are made into electricity
  Tour Moccasin powerhouse and learn about a renewable source of electricity
 

 
TIMBER HARVEST SITES
Students watch high tech equipment working in the forest, interview employees about their machinery, and participate in age-appropriate tree activities such as learning to measure a tree's height or diameter, looking at a tree core sample to determine age and health, learning to feel the difference between two tree species by feel alone, learning the five elements that a tree needs to grow, and discussing the various by-products which are produced from a tree.
 

Pacific Ultra Power
Students learn about the many sources of power, which are renewable and which are not, and how power is generated. They see various kinds of fuels burned at Ultra Power, they see a large chip van dumped, and tour the plant's computer center as well as the outside of the plant.

SPI's Chinese Camp Mill
Students tour the mill including watching the crane load and unload logs, see the logs debarked, cut into lumber, and stacked. They visit the kiln where lumber is dried, the planning mill and the final bundled products ready for shipment.

A Working Cattle Ranch
Students see cattle being roped, experience cattle chutes, and cattle trailers. They watch a working cutting horse and trained cow dog at work. They visit the barn where hay is stored as well as the cow bells used to identify the cows while they are in the forest for the summer. In the barn are the tools for feeding orphaned calves, and for vaccinating the cattle. They also learn about cattle by-products.

Hetch Hetchy Power Plant at Moccasin
Students tour the building that houses the water wheel, the turbine and generators. They see the computerized control room and the water coming from the inside of the power plant.

Gold Panning
A mini lesson presents the students with the concept that if something isn't grown then it must be mined from the earth. An activity helps them identify the origin of common things in their lives. They see demonstration of how to pan gold and the are given their own pan and an hour to seek their fortune.

Summerville High Ag Farm
Future Farmers of America I show students the various animal an activities on the far These include sheep bees, swine, poultry, beef, horses, a vegetable garden, and rabbits.