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A Wilderness Forever Future
The need for wilderness education
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• Challenge
• Opportunities

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• Challenge
• Opportunities

-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on -support in management
documents
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• Challenge
• Opportunities

-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on -support in management
documents
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Wilderness!
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The U. S. National Community Viewpoint on
Wilderness Protection
Nationally, 58 percent of Americans 16 favor
protecting more of our federal lands as
wilderness
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SNP Visitor Survey 2001

• important to preserve wilderness for future
  generations
• 90
• wilderness a reason for visiting
• 71

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Wilderness?
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Visitor Wilderness Knowledge
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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

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Wilderness
?
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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
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• Challenge
• Opportunities

-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on -support in management
documents
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Www.wilderness.net
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Employee Training
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Visitor Contacts
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Interpretive Programs
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Interpretive Media

• Computer exhibit
• Publications
• Park brochure

Shenandoah Wilderness Area
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Education Programs
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Wilderness Field Seminar

• I will definitely watch more closely and
  understand more fully what is written and acted
  upon wilderness issues before our leaders.

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Wilderness Field Seminar

• Wilderness will become a part of my regular
  conversation!

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Boy Scout National Jamboree
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Boy Scout National Jamboree
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Wilderness Weekend
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• Challenge
• Opportunities

-public perception of wilderness
-ideas to build on -support in management
documents
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Mission Goal 1
Shenandoah National Park Long-term Goal
Comprehensive Interpretive Plan
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NPS Management Policies
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Directors Order 41 Wilderness Preservation
and Management
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Wilderness Education and Partnership Plan
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The Wilderness Act, 1964
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Evaluate
Be inspired - be visionary
What can you do?
Talk wilderness
Know management support
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to preserve for present and future generations
the benefits of an enduring resource of
wilderness
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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 ...
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Yet we who concern ourselves with wilderness
preservation are compelled to assume this
boldness -Zahnie
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A Wilderness Forever Future
The need for wilderness education