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A Wilderness Forever Future

The need for wilderness education. A Wilderness Forever Future. Challenge Opportunities. -public perception of wilderness. Challenge Opportunities. -ideas to build on -support in management documents. -public perception of wilderness. Challenge Opportunities.

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A Wilderness Forever Future

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  1. The need for wilderness education A Wilderness Forever Future

  2. Challenge Opportunities

  3. -public perception of wilderness Challenge Opportunities -ideas to build on -support in management documents

  4. -public perception of wilderness Challenge Opportunities -ideas to build on -support in management documents

  5. Wilderness!

  6. The U. S. National Community Viewpoint on Wilderness Protection “Nationally, 58 percent of American’s 16+ favor protecting more of our federal lands as wilderness”

  7. SNP Visitor Survey 2001 • important to preserve wilderness for future generations 90% • wilderness a reason for visiting 71%

  8. Wilderness?

  9. Visitor Wilderness Knowledge

  10. Visitor Wilderness Knowledge Only 16% of respondents named an actual unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System 50 % had heard of wilderness, but did not know the definition

  11. Wilderness ?

  12. “For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”-Baba Dioum

  13. -public perception of wilderness Challenge Opportunities -ideas to build on -support in management documents

  14. Www.wilderness.net

  15. Employee Training

  16. Visitor Contacts

  17. Interpretive Programs

  18. Interpretive Media • Computer exhibit • Publications • Park brochure Shenandoah Wilderness Area

  19. Education Programs

  20. Wilderness Field Seminar “I will definitely watch more closely and understand more fully what is written and acted upon wilderness issues before our leaders.”

  21. Wilderness Field Seminar “Wilderness will become a part of my regular conversation!”

  22. Boy Scout National Jamboree

  23. Boy Scout National Jamboree

  24. Wilderness Weekend

  25. -public perception of wilderness Challenge Opportunities -ideas to build on -support in management documents

  26. Mission Goal 1 Shenandoah National Park Long-term Goal Comprehensive Interpretive Plan

  27. NPS Management Policies

  28. Director’s Order #41: Wilderness Preservation and Management

  29. Wilderness Education and Partnership Plan

  30. The Wilderness Act, 1964

  31. Evaluate Be inspired - be visionary What can you do? Talk wilderness Know management support

  32. “…to preserve for present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness”

  33. “It is a bold thing for a human being who lives on the earth but a few score years at the most to presume upon the Eternal ...

  34. Yet we who concern ourselves with wilderness preservation are compelled to assume this boldness…”-Zahnie

  35. The need for wilderness education A Wilderness Forever Future

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