George Wright Society Biennial Conference 2017

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Promoting, facilitating, and improving public understanding of natural, cultural, recreational, and other aspects of protected areas, national parks, ecological conservation areas, national forests, and state parks through the 2017 GWS Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, other meetings and workshops. 2. Preparing, encouraging, and challenging young people, adults, and faculty from underrepresented ethnically diverse backgrounds to develop skills and knowledge about environmental stewardship in parks, protected areas, and cultural sites through the 2017 GWS Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, other meetings and workshops. 3. Increasing the availability of science-based information and other scholarly information which forms the basis of NPS management decisions, sharing with others scientific and other scholarly information related to natural and cultural area management generated as a result of research and management conducted in parks, and increasing the NPSâ¿¿s interactions with a diverse body of local, state, federal, tribal, and international natural and cultural management professionals, volunteers, and students through the 2017 GWS Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, other meetings and workshops. 4. Involving Native Americans and other indigenous people in educational, training, and other activities related to natural, cultural, and recreational resources through the 2017 GWS Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, other meetings and workshops. 5. Provide an immersive Park Break outdoor learning lab experience on the study of traditional knowledge on the health benefits of nature.

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