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Tilton
Receives Prestigious Wilderness Education Award
11 March, 2002
The Wilderness Education Association (WEA)
recently awarded Buck Tilton, co-founder
of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS,
with the Paul K. Petzoldt Award for Excellence
in Wilderness Education. Established in 1988,
the award goes out each year in honor of
Paul K. Petzoldt, who founded the National
Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and had
a pioneering role in wilderness education.
Recipients must be furthering Petzoldt's
work by promoting wilderness education and
enhancing the public's awareness of the wilderness
and the importance of outdoor ethics, skills
and leadership.
Tilton has dedicated more than twenty years
to the field of wilderness education, working
for many years alongside Petzoldt and finally
co-founding the Wilderness Medicine Institute
in 1990. He has extensive experience with
pre-hospital medicine and search and rescue
and has reached thousands in the field of
wilderness education through WMI, which became
an institute of NOLS in 1999. Today WMI runs
more than 180 courses annually, from Wilderness
First Responder to the Wilderness EMT certification,
and has trained thousands of outdoor professionals
to handle medical emergencies in the backcountry.
Tilton is also a regular contributor to Backpacker
Magazine, where he educates the public on
how to stay healthy in the outdoors, and
is the author of a shelf of wilderness medicine
books, including The Wilderness First Responder,
and Medicine for the Backcountry.
"For more than a decade, Buck has been
the critical influence on wilderness first
aid training," says Molly Hampton, NOLS
administration director. "NOLS is honored
that Buck is now a regular part of our community.
He leads the direction for us on the latest
wilderness medical curriculum, has a strong
vision for wilderness medicine beyond U.S.
borders, and inspires us to be better educators."
With the award, Tilton joins the ranks of
previous recipients like Ernest "Tap" Tapley,
a renowned outdoorsman and mountaineer who,
along with Petzoldt, was one of the fathers
of modern wilderness education. The Paul
K. Petzoldt Award for Excellence in Wilderness
Education is, for Buck, a unique honor because
Petzoldt had so much influence on his career
promoting outdoor education. "The award
is really meaningful for me because Paul
was my mentor," says Tilton. "He
convinced me that wilderness education could
be a career and to really believe in something
enough to spend most of your life doing it."
Contact:
Kerry Brophy
Publications Manager
Email: kerry_brophy@nols.edu
Phone: (307) 335-2271
Fax: (307) 332-8811
National Outdoor Leadership School
284 Lincoln Street
Lander, WY 82520-3140
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