American Recreation Coalition's Legends and Beacon Awards
The American Recreation Coalition annually honors an outstanding
employee from each federal land management agency with the American
Recreation Coalition (ARC) Legends Award. This award is presented to
recognize extraordinary individual efforts that have expanded and
enhanced recreational opportunities, connecting people- especially
children- and the outdoors, through public/private partnerships, or have
increased participation in outdoor recreation through innovative
programs based upon public/private partnerships. Award criteria include:
- Quantifiable improvements in recreation opportunities or participation
in recreation by non-traditional visitors
- Reliance upon partnerships with the private sector
- use of creative solutions and programs and sharing news of creative
solutions with the agency
- Community support for the work of the individual
The Beacon Award recognizes outstanding initiatives where new
technologies provide improved, cost-effective solutions to recreation
program needs. Award criteria include:
- Innovation in either the use of technology for visitor services or the
use of technology for recreation management;
- Partnerships with for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the private
sector;
- Efforts to share news of creative solutions within the agency; and
- Community support for the work of this initiative, as reflected in
awards, community boards and committees, etc
Legends and Beacon Award Recipients
William Penn Mott Award
National Society for Park Resources (NSPR)
On 5 October 2001, the National Society for Park Resources (NSPR) recognized the Natural Resources Management Gateway team with the William Penn Mott Award for Excellence at its annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. The William Penn Mott Award is the highest honor awarded by NSPR, which is a branch of the National Recreation and Parks Association, the professional organization for recreation practitioners. The Natural Resources Management Gateway is a knowledge management based website, developed by ERDC under the direction of the Recreation Management Support Program to provide accessible, current, and sanctioned policy, guidance and information assistance to the Corps recreation program managers.
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