Why should any recreation service be provided? - Armed Forces Recreation Society/National Society for Park Resources

That's the question you ask when developing a program using the beneficial outcomes approach--because that's the question in the back of many decision makers' minds when they're piecing together budgets in these tough times. Learn how to include the answer in your marketing and program development by attending the Beneficial Outcomes Approach to Recreation Management seminar. This training opportunity, provided by the Natural Resources Management Training Coalition, will be held Oct. 15-17 in Lake Shelbyville, Ill.

The three-day course is structured to provide participants a working understanding of the beneficial outcomes approach, both as a philosophy and as a system that guides all recreation resource policy making, planning, management, marketing and monitoring actions. The program aims to ground participants in underlying concepts of the beneficial outcomes approach as well as practical day-to-day recreation-tourism management realities.

For more information on the program, which is coordinated through the Armed Forces Recreation Society, National Association for Interpretation: National Association of Recreation Resource Planners, National Association of State Park Directors and the National Society for Park Resources, contact John Marnell, chief of Natural Resources and Recreation Branch at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at john.marnell@usace.army.mil or 918-669-7397.