The summer Forestry Tour program has evolved in the past few years. Where once the focus was on showing the harvesting of trees, the tour now tries to address the full scope of what the sawmills, the Ministry of Forests and the logging contractors face, especially in regards to the often controversial environmental and political concerns.

They've heard about clearcuts and the destruction of natural habitat, about pine beetle infestations and possibly Native land claim issues and some of them have a lot of questions. The tourists come from as far away as Germany, New Zealand, Israel, California, and Alberta, but there are always locals aboard and everyone listens intently as Heloise tells the forestry story, on the dusty gravel road.