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A Wilderness Forever Future
The need for wilderness education
Challenge
Opportunities
Challenge
Opportunities
-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on
-support in management documents
Challenge
Opportunities
-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on
-support in management documents
Wilderness!
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”
SNP Visitor Survey 2001
• important to preserve wilderness for future generations
90%
• wilderness a reason for visiting71%
Wilderness?
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Know alot
Know alittle
Heardabout
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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
Visitor Wilderness Knowledge
?Wilderness
“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
Challenge
Opportunities
-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on
-support in management documents
Www.wilderness.net
Employee Training
Visitor Contacts
Interpretive Programs
Interpretive Media
• Computer exhibit
• Publications
• Park brochure
Shenandoah Wilderness Area
Education Programs
Wilderness Field Seminar
“I will definitely watch more closely and understand more fully what is written and acted upon wilderness issues before our leaders.”
Wilderness Field Seminar
“Wilderness will become a part of my regular conversation!”
Boy Scout National Jamboree
Boy Scout National Jamboree
Wilderness Weekend
Challenge
Opportunities
-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on
-support in management documents
Comprehensive Interpretive Plan
Shenandoah National Park Long-term Goal
Mission Goal 1
NPS Management Policies
Director’s Order #41: Wilderness Preservation and
Management
Wilderness Education and Partnership Plan
The Wilderness Act, 1964
What can you do?
Know management support
EvaluateBe inspired - be visionary
Talk wilderness
“…to preserve for present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness”
“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 ...
Yet we who concern ourselves with wilderness preservation are compelled to assume this boldness…”
-Zahnie
A Wilderness Forever Future
The need for wilderness education
