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23 February 2024
Articles for this issue
- SORP Stewarding the Outdoor Recreation Professions Webinar Series - March 13 - April 3, 2024
- Know the Past, Change the Future - The History of Public Lands and Recreation - March 13: 1 pm MT
- Using Mentoring and Networking to Build Your Career - March 20: 1 pm MT
- The Importance of Building Relationships and Embracing Public Participation - March 27: 1 pm MT
- Project Management for Effective Planning and Design Results - April 3: 1 pm MT
SORP Stewarding the Outdoor Recreation Professions Webinar Series - March 13 - April 3, 2024
We are pleased to offer access to all of these sessions FREE OF COST to everyone. It’s important to SORP to be able to serve the outdoor recreation community through these types of training opportunities.
See following articles for details for each webinar.
SORP is excited to partner with American Trails and offer free learning credits to attendees. American Trails is a certified provider https://www.americantrails.org/earn-learning-credits-and-ceus and can offer the following learning credits and continuing education opportunities: AICP CM, LA CES, NRPA CEU Equivalency Petition, and CEU/PDH Equivalency Petition for other accepting organizations.
Know the Past, Change the Future - The History of Public Lands and Recreation - March 13: 1 pm MT
Public lands are the playgrounds for many recreationalists and the places where much of our work as recreation professionals is focused. While public lands are valuable assets, the history of how these places came to be can often contribute to people, especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, feeling like they don’t belong in these spaces. In this webinar, we’ll explore how conservation history shapes land protection and recreation management practices today and ways that we can create welcoming spaces through inclusive recreation management practices.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand how early attitudes and values shaped land conservation and access.
- Participants will be able to identify an example of how recreation planning practices have contributed to outdoor spaces as inaccessible and/or exclusive.
- Participants will be able to identify an example of a recreation planning practice that creates an inclusive outdoor space where people feel they belong.
Presenters:
- Liz Vogel, The Wilderness Society
- Sharon Musa, The Wilderness Society
- Rachel Franchina, Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
RSVP:
Using Mentoring and Networking to Build Your Career - March 20: 1 pm MT
Once you have a degree and some job experience, how do you move to the next level? Is training and professional development enough? This webinar features a panel of outdoor recreation professionals from government, nonprofit, private, and academic backgrounds. Panelists will share their experiences with mentoring and networking and how it helped them - and how they helped others - learn more about themselves and how to move forward in their careers.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand the what a mentor is and how to identify for a mentor
- Participants will be able to identify qualities of a good mentor as well as watch-outs in a mentor-mentee relationship
- Participants will understand the value of networking in furthering professional development goals
Panelists:
- Margaret Bailey - Advisor, CHM Government Services
- Michael Bradley - Department Chair, Arkansas Tech University
- Parker McMullen-Bushman - Founder, EcoInclusive Strategies
- Bob Ratcliffe - Retired, National Park Service
RSVP:
The Importance of Building Relationships and Embracing Public Participation - March 27: 1 pm MT
For decades, skills such as empathy, team building and even leadership have been deemed "soft skills" and framed as less valuable than technical skills. Research and empirical evidence now shows that these skills are more critical to effectively working with others whether within your organization or with partners, stakeholders, and users. This session introduces two recently released products of the Interagency Visitor Use Management Council focused on the critical task of developing desired conditions for the planning and management of public lands and waters in the United States. The first product is the guidebook for developing desired conditions, and the second product is a supporting paper that takes a deep-dive into the topic of public participation and how it intersects with desired conditions development. This webinar will explore the foundations for the concept of ‘desired conditions’, including why they are needed, what they are, and how they can be developed in variou s social and ecological contexts. Further, we will explore fundamental principles of public participation, discuss different types of public participation, and provide ideas for what should be considered as practitioners approach the task of developing desired conditions with the help of the public. While this webinar is focused on the tangible and discrete outcomes of desired condition statements, we discuss how such outcomes are reliant and facilitated by good processes that promote relationship building such as promising influence, honoring diverse voices, committing to accessibility, and showing humility.
Learning Objectives:
- Define soft skills and why they are critical for outdoor recreation professionals.
- Understand the general need, definition, and process for developing desired conditions.
- Recognize the complexity of developing desired conditions within varied social and ecological contexts.
- Understand the gamut of considerations for preparing, launching, and executing a public participation campaign for desired condition development.
Presenters:
- Aleks Pitt, National Park Service Midwest Region Director of Planning
- Dr. Chris Armatas, USFS Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
- Dr. Lee Cerveny, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station
RSVP:
Project Management for Effective Planning and Design Results - April 3: 1 pm MT
Effective project management is critical to a successful planning and design process, and this presentation will outline best practices to keep campground projects on budget and on schedule. Using case studies, we will describe an effective process for taking a campground project from the earliest feasibility phase all the way through design, construction documentation, permitting, and bidding.
What type of recreational experiences does your existing or proposed campground offer compared to others in the area? Given the site’s natural features, what is the recreational potential and what are the potential constraints? What are campers’ expectations for the level of amenities and character given the market context? Are there significant threats to the project (e.g. permitting issues, community opposition, cost), and how can they be addressed?
Learning Objectives:
- Learn project management best practices for planning & design projects
- Learn strategies for managing the design and permitting process with a multi-disciplinary team
- Learn the value of a collaborative approach between the client and consultant team
- Learn tips for proactively identifying project threats and contingency planning
Presenters:
- Patrick Olstad - Landscape Architect, SE Group
- Isaac Sims - Landscape Architect, U.S. Forest Service
RSVP:
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Updated: April 2024