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PA Recreation and Park Society
PRPS Weekly News
 

Trails Information

 

Parks & Forests APP Updated

The Official Guide for Pennsylvania State Parks & Forests app powered by Pocket Ranger not only has a new look, but also some new features! If you don't have the app yet, you can get it here. 

  

Save the Date!

11th Annual Prowl the Sproul Hiking Weekend & Donut Hole Trail Slackpack: July 18-20, 2014, Western Clinton County. Registration now open!

 

Trail Care Weekend, Mid State Trail, Tioga Region: August 8-10, 2014.

 

6th Annual Susquehanna Super Hike & Ultra Trail Run: September 6, 2014, Lancaster/ York Counties. Registration now open!

 

For the full Trail Care Program schedule, please visit www.kta-hike.org.
 

Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Trails

Still time to register for the "Environmentally Sensitive Maintenance for Trails" training courses being put on by the Dirt and Gravel Program at Penn State.

 

There are two sessions for this summer (Huntingdon County on 7/8 and Lancaster County on 8/5). Click here for more details. 

 

Submit Your Session Proposal for the 2015 Conference
   

Be a part of the 2015 PRPS Annual Conference in Lancaster. The conference program committee is  accepting educational session proposals through August 15, 2014.

 

Click here for the 2015 session proposal form.  

 
LERN (Learning Resource Network)
Kids Summer Camp Brochure Awards
LERN

 

LERN is seeking 2014 Kids Summer Camp Brochures. If you have a recent Kids Summer Camp brochure and would like to submit to LERN, please click here for the awards submission guidelines.
All nominees must be LERN members.

 

     

Registration is now OPEN! Click here to Register.

 

 
 
Leadership Living

The MasterPoint™ Series for the ascendant professional

by Tim Herd, CPRE

 

12 Most Engaging Investments for a More Rewarding Return

 

What is your primary goal as a leader?

Is it to advance your own career? If so, check the integrity of the wall your shaky ladder is leaning on. Self-promotion has no foundation and is often constructed of mere imagery. It has a tendency to crumble under pressure. (And then where are you? Looking up from the rubble, that's where!)

 

Rather, is it not to actively engage and equip your followers to achieve results, to provide the training and support to do their jobs well, and to create the connections that entice them to want to do them? (Yeah: I thought you'd say so... Well, here we go then: all together up and over the top!)

 

Click here to continue reading.

  

 
PRPS and Other Trainings

 

To view the PRPS Calendar, click here.

 

Resource Operations Workshop

October 22, 2014 - Cabela's, Hamburg

More information will be available at a later time.

 

Fall Membership Meeting

November 19, 2014

Location TBD 

 

For a list of other training outside PRPS, click here.