The group's participants came as teams from various destinations within the Basin and shared their backgrounds and what they hoped to learn while on the Tour. Each team also brought with them a bottle of water collected from their watershed and poured it into a large container to symbolize their contribution to the Columbia River Basin. After their barbeque, the teachers viewed the Refuge's Environmental Education Center, walked on Chickadee Trail and the Myrtle Creek Falls Trail, and viewed moose and deer feeding nearby on the warm Sunday evening.

The Tour took the environmental educators on to British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon where they visited cultural centers, hydropower projects, fish hatcheries, and a nuclear reactor in order to network with various educators, community leaders, and receive a broad perspective of the diversity within the Basin.

The Tour was the result of a partnership of the Environmental Education Association of Oregon and North Cascades Institute with funding provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the National Park Service.