Pacific region - Regional Reports

Parks & Recreation, Jan, 2003

The goal of a new Web site, www.the adventurepages.com, is to provide easier access to worthwhile recreational opportunities in California. How do they do this? By linking to NRPA members! The site is looking to add more photos and text-based content. They will provide credit and additional links back to your website.

The California Park & Recreation Society is providing the leadership to advance the positive impact and value of the parks and recreation profession on society through conducting the VIP Project. This project will create a vision and comprehensive strategic plan for the park and recreation profession into the new millennium. Go to www.cprs.org/VIP/ index.htm to check the progress of this project. The VIP Project action plan and other resources are now available. This action planning document, Creating Community in the 21st Century, is a 64-page report published by the California Park & Recreation Society. It provides strategic action planning for the park and recreation profession in California. For a good example of how this plan can help your community, go to www.parks.ci.portland.or.us/ 2020/Vision/2020visionreport.htm.

The Pacific Northwest Resource Management Institute will be offered to professionals interested in learning more about resource ,management, planning, acquisition and stewardship. Students and instructors from Canada and the United States will share information and ideas in an informal setting. The Resource Management Institute will be held from March 2-5 at beautiful Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Wash. Space is limited to 25. For the second year, the Trust for Public Land will join NRPA as a co-sponsor of the Institute. Trust for Public Land staff will be joined by Gene Duvernoy from the Cascade Land Conservancy in providing speakers with hands-on experience and explaining creative acquisition and funding strategies. A previous attendee, King County Park System Manager Bobbi Wallace sums it up best, "This course provides new ideas that all of us can use to secure, improve and protect our beautiful resource lands. If you manage resource lands, you don't want to miss this training." Register as soon as you can for this truly one of a kind institute. For more information contact the NRPA Pacific Service Center at 800-796-6772 or www.nrpa.org.

Pacific Service Center
Pamela Earle, CPRP
Regional Director
350 S. 333rd Street, #103
Federal Way, WA 98003
Phone: 253-661-2265
Fax: 253-661-3929

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