1. A Wilderness Forever Future The need for wilderness education

3. Challenge Opportunities

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

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

6. Wilderness!

7. 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”

8. SNP Visitor Survey 2001 important to preserve wilderness for future generations 90% wilderness a reason for visiting 71%

9. Wilderness?

11. Visitor Wilderness Knowledge

12. 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

13. ? Wilderness

14. “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

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

16. Www.wilderness.net

18. Employee Training

19. Visitor Contacts

20. Interpretive Programs

21. Interpretive Media Computer exhibit Publications Park brochure Shenandoah Wilderness Area

22. Education Programs

23. Wilderness Field Seminar “I will definitely watch more closely and understand more fully what is written and acted upon wilderness issues before our leaders.”

24. Wilderness Field Seminar “Wilderness will become a part of my regular conversation!”

25. Boy Scout National Jamboree

27. Wilderness Weekend

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

30. Comprehensive Interpretive Plan Shenandoah National Park Long-term Goal Mission Goal 1

31. NPS Management Policies

32. Director’s Order #41: Wilderness Preservation and Management

33. Wilderness Education and Partnership Plan

34. The Wilderness Act, 1964

35. What can you do? Know management support Evaluate Be inspired - be visionary Talk wilderness

36. “…to preserve for present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness”

39. “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...

40. Yet we who concern ourselves with wilderness preservation are compelled to assume this boldness…” -Zahnie

41. A Wilderness Forever Future The need for wilderness education