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Wilderness Teacher Workshop Pilot
Do you know an educator in the Missoula, MT area interested in attending a FREE teacher workshop June 29-30th at the University of Montana?
We're pilot testing "Wilderness Investigations," a subject-integrated curriculum for grades 5-8 that focuses on wilderness and wild places with place-based teaching tools that fit varied delivery situations.
We intend to go national with this curriculum and among our first steps are seeing what actual classroom teachers think about it.
For more information and registration details, contact Jenn Lutman at 406-243-4601 or email her. | |
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Ken Straley: New Forest Service Represenative at the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
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Ken Straley reports May 16th as the new Forest Service Representative at the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center! Since joining the Forest Service as a Wilderness Ranger in 1993, Ken has worked as a Recreation Planner, Recreation Specialist, Wilderness Staff Officer, and Recreation Staff Officer and has acquired extensive experience in all aspects of public lands recreation management.
He specializes in wilderness management and monitoring, trails, visitor information and education, recreation fee and permit programs, and watershed stabilization projects in which old reservoirs were returned to naturally functioning lakes in wilderness and backcountry areas. Throughout his 18 year career, Ken has served with the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. As a Wilderness Staff Officer for Utah's High Uintas Wilderness, Ken built and managed the Ashley National Forest's wilderness program. He wrote a wilderness monitoring plan, devised metrics, and conducted extensive monitoring that resulted in new management practices. Ken also developed a Wilderness Ranger training program that grew to include participants from other National Forests, which he continued to conduct long after leaving the position. He briefly represented the Intermountain Region on the Forest Service's Wilderness Advisory Group and has since assisted with wilderness events in the Rocky Mountain Region. Prior to coming to the Carhart Center, Ken participated in several of our wilderness stewardship courses and subsequently contributed content to course curriculum and toolboxes on www.Wilderness.net.
Ken holds B.S. degrees in Marketing and Natural Resources Recreation Planning and Management from the University of Utah. As an avid hiker and backpacker with a passion for wild places, Ken spends most of his free time exploring the mountains and deserts of the West and, occasionally, wild lands around the world. |
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New Online Courses:
Natural Resource Management in Wilderness
We are proud to announce the launch of a new online Course of Study: Natural Resource Management in Wilderness. We worked with several highly regarded subject matter experts to develop content for each of the 12 courses that comprise this Course of Study. Each course includes examples or case studies, photographs, illustrations and interactive features to enhance your online learning experience. Each course can be taken at times and speeds that best match your schedule and learning style.
Natural Resource Management in Wilderness
- Fundamentals
- Challenges in Natural Resource Restoration
- Monitoring
- Evaluating Proposals for Scientific Activity
- Fish & Wildlife
- Fish & Wildlife Inventory and Monitoring
- Threatened and Endangered Species
- Air Quality
- Soil & Water
- Vegetation
- Soundscapes
- Night Sky
Courses 1-4 include basic information that applies generally to all natural resources found in wilderness. Courses 5-12 are resource-specific and organized around a 6-step adaptive stewardship model that guides you through identifying threats and issues to monitoring that resource in wilderness. Also included is relevant law, policy, key terms, the relationship to wilderness character, management strategies and guidelines.
If you are new to wilderness management or have been at it for a while, you are certain to find something of interest and use to you. The courses are free and currently available to all employees through the Eppley Training Site, and to DOI employees through DOI Learn. We are working to offer the courses through AgLearn, and will announce that availability when possible. Please click here for more information on how to sign-up.
For more information, contact Karen Lindsey at 406-243-4627 or email her.
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If you have any questions, comments, or want to suggest a topic for the newsletter, please feel free to email us. We'd love to hear what topics are most interesting to you so we can focus on them. Until next time!
Sincerely,
Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
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