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November 7-10Missoula, Montana

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Photo credit: A. Andis

WORKSHOP

2016 National Wilderness Workshop

Venues

Opening Social, November 7, 7-9pm: Top Hat Lounge, 134 W. Front St.

Sessions, November 8-10, all day: University of Montana, University Center, 3rd floor

The DoubleTree Hotel, as well as many other downtown hotels, is within walking distance of the UM campus. Walk along Missoula’s scenic Kim Williams river trail for access to foot bridges. For those driving to campus, parking is available in lots marked “Metered Parking” or “Day Pass” Parking: http://map.umt.edu. Day passes can be purchased for $3 each from the Information desk on the 1st floor of the University Center. Parking is free on November 8. On-campus parking is limited, so consider riding Missoula’s free public buses, http://www.mountainline.com, or UM’s free UDASH busses, http://www.udash.org.

Wilderness Olympics, November 8, 1:45-8pm: The Barn at the Ranch Club, 8500 Mullan Rd.

Transportation is provided between the DoubleTree Hotel and the Barn for workshop participants. Weather pending, you will be outside, so wear appropriate clothing.

Wilderness Institute Reception, November 9, 7-10pm: Flathead Lake Brewing Company, 424 N. Higgins Ave.

Society for Wilderness Stewardship Reception, November 10, 5-10pm: DoubleTree Hotel, Finn & Porter (restaurant inside hotel) 100 Madison St.

Schedule

Monday, November 7, 2016

Registration and informal no-host gathering/networking at TopHat, 7-9pm

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Topic Time Sessions Opening 8-9am Leadership, Training, Education, and Science: Setting the stage for implementing 2020 Vision

(leaders of the following groups and institutions open the workshop: Interagency Wilderness Policy Council-Sue Spear, Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center-Laura Rotegard, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute-Susan Fox, National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance-Bill Hodge, Society for Wilderness Stewardship-Heather MacSlarrow, Wilderness Institute-Lisa Ronald) NORTH BALLROOM

Wilderness Character track

9-10:30am Best Practices for Managing Future Wilderness: Case Studies from the Field (retired Forest Service wilderness program manager Chris Ryan leads a panel including Deborah Gale (Bitterroot National Forest), Kyle Johnson (Glacier National Park), James Sippel (Bureau of Land Management), and Zack Porter (Montana Wilderness Association) to explore where management direction has helped or hindered maintenance of wilderness character and suitability for designation in areas that agencies have formally recommended or proposed for congressional wilderness) NORTH BALLROOM

Wilderness Character Monitoring: Experiences from the Field (2016 Forest Service Wilderness Fellows talk about the process of completing Wilderness Character Assessments on the ground, moderated by Peter Landres, co-founder of the Fellows program and co-author of Keeping It Wild, Keeping It Wild 2, and the USFS Wilderness Character Assessment Technical Guide) ROOM 332/333

Break 10:30-11am Wilderness Character or Training Models tracks

11am-12pm Ways to Implement Wilderness Character Monitoring (Peter Landres from the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute leads a panel with: Steve Boutcher (tentative)

Wilderness Field Training Special Topics – Forest Service Saw Policy (traditional skills expert Robert Wetherall presents information for

presenting on current and future Forest Service wilderness character monitoring, Nyssa Landres discussing accomplishments from the Wilderness Fellows Program, and Lisa Gerloff detailing accomplishments from the University of Montana’s citizen science monitoring efforts) NORTH BALLROOM

agency employees and partners on this new policy) ROOM 332/333

Lunch 12-1:45pm Lunch on your own at the DoubleTree Hotel or downtown Missoula restaurants. Transport to the Barn at the Ranch Club

1:45-2pm Meet busses in the parking lot in front of the DoubleTree Hotel. Busses depart promptly at 2pm.

Wilderness Special Topics Panel

2:45-3:45pm

Building a Shared Vision for the Future of Wilderness in the Context of 2020 Vision (Agency wilderness leaders Nancy Roeper (Fish and Wildlife Service), Sue Spear (Forest Service), and Erin Drake (National Park Service) present a brief update on the 2020 Vision Implementation Plan followed by a moderated audience discussion about government and partner roles in actual implementation) THE BARN AT THE RANCH CLUB

Break 3:45-4pm Get some water, or a beer (beer and wine provided, please abstain if you will be participating in the crosscut event), and get ready for some fun and informal networking

Events Open 4:00-5:30pm

Wilderness Olympics: Anyone can participate or spectate, and groups or individuals can choose to compete in one event or all events. Groups or individuals can also choose to participate in any events without competing. Judges will be stationed at events and will submit scores when events close. Events include: Crosscut (close-toed leather boots required), Horse Packing (test your mantie packing skills), and Dizzy Tent Set-Up (just like it sounds). WEATHER PENDING, YOU WILL BE OUTSIDE, SO WEAR APPROPRIATE CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR FOR COLD WEATHER (warm shoes/boots, coat, hat, gloves). THE BARN AT THE RANCH CLUB

Dinner 5:30-6:30pm

Free food and drinks catered by the Barn! BBQ meats, sides, and cobbler, which you can wash down with Kettlehouse Cold Smoke, Deschutes Fresh Squeezed, or wine. THE BARN AT THE RANCH CLUB

Awards 6:30-7:30pm

Medals are awarded and special recognition given to Forest Service annual Wilderness Award-winners and wilderness veterans. THE BARN AT THE RANCH CLUB

Transport back to Doubletree Hotel

7:30-8pm Meet busses outside the Barn

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Topic Time Sessions Announcements 8:30-8:45am NORTH BALLROOM Communications or Training Models tracks

9-10:30am Wilderness Messaging: Drafting Messages About Wilderness Values (sociologist and researcher Rebecca Rasch, outdoor industry company marketer Danny Noonan (Cabela’s), former journalist and California and Urban-to-Wild Communicator Andrea Alday (The Wilderness Society), and author and digital marketing specialist Jill Alban frame this topic followed by message development exercises facilitated by communications professionals Bonnie Lippitt and Lisa Ronald) NORTH BALLROOM

Wilderness Field Training – Case Studies (hear from the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, National Park Service, Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards, Pacific Crest Trail Association, and Conservation Legacy on how they train wilderness field professionals, facilitated by Society for Wilderness Stewardship Executive Director and long-time wilderness field trainer Heather MacSlarrow) ROOM 330/331

10:30-11am Break 11am-12pm Wilderness

Messaging: Drafting Messages About Wilderness Values cont. NORTH BALLROOM

A Visioning Exercise to Brand Wilderness (contribute your ideas and perspectives on branding by depicting your deepest wilderness values in an exercise led by Karen Thorson (painter, sculptor, fused-glass artist, and 2014 artist-in-residence for the Montana Artist Wilderness Connection) and Josh

Wilderness Field Training – Analysis (activities in small groups, facilitated by Society for Wilderness Stewardship Executive Director and login-time wilderness field trainer Heather MacSlarrow, will analyze the breadth and depth of current field training practices by identifying best practices, areas of overlap and dissonance, and any gaps in field staff curriculum or education) ROOM 330/331

Hammari (graphic artist and designer of the Wilderness Act 50th anniversary logo)) ROOM 326/327

Lunch 12-1:30pm On your own—University Center 2nd floor food court Communications or Training Models tracks

1:30-3pm Going Digital: Developing an App for the Wilderness Explorers Booklet (Wilderness Explorer program creators Suzy Stutzman and Ralph Swain scope out the app with IT experts Nick Shontz and Kayla Pierson, facilitated by Wilderness.net web manager Lisa Ronald) NORTH BALLROOM

Wilderness Field Training – Core Qualifications (Society for Wilderness Stewardship Executive Director and long-time wilderness field trainer Heather MacSlarrow moderates a large group discussion to debate and distill the universal core qualifications of wilderness field staff including core qualifications standardization, accreditation of instructors, and renewable or non-renewable certifications) ROOM 330/331

3-3:30pm Break 3:30-4:30pm Developing Messaging for Wilderness Kiosks

and Trailheads (pulling from a variety of existing sources, this panel—including National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance Executive Director Randy Welsh, Forest Service wilderness manager from the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Liese Dean, Forest Service communications professional Bonnie Lippitt, and Eric Giebelstein from the Southern Appalachian Stewards—will address intra- and inter-agency variation in interpretation techniques, to lay a foundation for standardized trailhead messaging that can be implemented across all four agencies. Participants will engage in visioning what inter-agency trailhead signage could look like,

Wilderness Field Training Special Topics – Traditional Skills (Forest Service Technology and Development Director Alex Gavrisheff, National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance Board Chair Bill Hodge, Lolo National Forest Ninemile District Ranger Erin Phelps, Forest Service Assistant National Trails Coordinator Jamie Schmidt, and Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center Acting Director Laura Rotegard discuss, solicit feedback on, and identify next steps to institutionalize traditional skills training curricula) ROOM 330/331

what common core principles should be followed, and what common elements should be represented.) NORTH BALLROOM

Dinner 4:30-7pm On your own Evening reception 7-10pm Hosted drinks for the first hour at the Wilderness Institute reception at Flathead Lake Brewing

Company (upstairs)

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Topic Time Sessions Announcements 8:30-8:45am NORTH BALLROOM Building Capacity for Stewardship Through Fundraising or Partnerships for the Future tracks

9-10:30am Fundraising for Wilderness: Diversifying Your Funding Profile (non-profit development expert Glenn Marangelo—former development director for Five Valleys Land Trust and Wilderness Watch and current owner of Place Based Nonprofit Consulting—discusses and leads activities on member retention, donor cultivation, and planned giving) NORTH BALLROOM

Framing/Reframing Local Partnerships (seasoned non-profit/government partnership builders Michelle Mitchell and Bill Hodge lead participants in understanding foundational concepts of partnership development, the foundation and tools needed to frame partnerships will be presented and discussed – providing participants with a toolbox to utilize back home in the field) ROOM 326/327 10-10:30am Break

10:30am-noon

10:30-11am Break Framing/Reframing A National Partnership Model (based on the partnership process introduced in the last session, Michelle Mitchell and Bill Hodge, along with champions from the wilderness management agencies, Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Society for Wilderness Stewardship, National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance, the Wilderness Institute and others initiate a case study showing how we can better work together as a wilderness community. All those in attendance

Fundraising for Wilderness: Diversifying Your Funding Profile cont. NORTH BALLROOM

will be asked to participate in small break-out groups to identify the resource, shared values and tools to move our national stewardship community forward to address defined needs) ROOM 326/327

Lunch 12-1:30pm On your own—UC 2nd floor food court Building Capacity for Stewardship Through Fundraising or Partnerships for the Future tracks

1:30-3pm Fundraising for Wilderness: Making Your Cause More Appealing to Funders (agency and foundation proposal development experts Kathryn Swan and Jennifer Savage along with grant program administrators from National Forest Foundation (Adam Liljeblad) and National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance (Randy Walsh) present best practices for researching, selecting, and contacting funders, developing successful proposals, and telling a compelling funding story) NORTH BALLROOM

Partnerships on Paper #1: Hiring Authority Possibilities (Forest Service Human Resources expert Nancy Kollin shows how to use hiring authorities to facilitate partner work) ROOM 326/327

3-3:30pm Break 3:30-4:30pm Challenges Associated with Training the

Next Generation of Wilderness Stewards (University educator Natalie Dawson from the Wilderness Institute, Josh Olsen from the Montana Wilderness School, and Forest Service Northwest Region Wilderness Program Leader Jimmy Gaudry discuss the implications permit systems are having on the development of outdoor education programs) NORTH BALLROOM

Partnerships on Paper #2: Hands-on Working with Grants and Agreements (agency grants/agreements expert Meg Nemitz unravels the complexities of working with Forest Service G&A instruments) ROOM 326/327

Evening reception 5-10pm Hosted drinks and appetizers at Finn & Porter with the Society for Wilderness Stewardship