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2011 Watchable Wildlife / U.S. Forest Service
Conference & Workshop
Lied Lodge, Arbor Day Farm
Nebraska City, NE
October 25, 2011
2011 Conference Program
Revised 10/14/11
Business Casual Dress Please
Monday October 24, 2011 9:00-5:00 Tradeshow Set-up
1:00-5:00 Registration Desk Open
Tuesday October 25, 2011 7:30-10:00 Registration Desk Open
8:00-12:30 General Session 9:00-9:15 Welcome: Jim Mallman
President, Watchable Wildlife, Inc. 9:15-10:30
Keynote Speaker: Jane Darnell
Supervisor, NE National Forest and Grasslands, U.S. Forest Service
Topic: "Little Known & Seldom Seen Public Lands" 10:30-11:00 Break and Trade Show 11:00-11:30
Speaker: Kimberly Winter
NatureWatch National Coordinator, U.S. Forest Service,
Topic: U.S. Forest Service's NatureWatch Program Update 11:30-12:30
Speaker: Jim Mallman
President, Watchable Wildlife, Inc.
Topic: Economics of Wildlife/Nature Tourism: (The Real Value of Having a National Forest Near Your Community) 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-5:00
Topic: Digital Bridge to Nature Workshop
Introduction Speaker: Jim Mallman
Workshop Facilitators: Steve Maanum & Stacy Bender-Fayette
Description: For the past 25 years state and federal agencies have been studying a declining trend of young people recreating in the outdoors and specifically in wild settings. In more recent years this topic has been the subject of several popular books and workshops.
Watchable Wildlife Inc. has been conducting workshops and publishing books on the tremendous growth in the popularity of Wildlife Viewing across North America. This work has led us to partner with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the US Forest Service on a project that we feel combines the trends and demographics of these two developments.
Digital Bridge To Nature© is a program geared towards attracting young people back into the forests and other wild areas through the use of the technology they are most interested in and comfortable with. On July 10, 2010 this project became reality when the first of 80 workshops was held in Luverne, MN. This session will preview these workshops, the tools and kits developed for teachers and the workbook designed to teach the program across North America.
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