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Access to Wilderness Classrooms
- Secure access to new operating areas
- Assess and alleviate constraints
- Efficient use of available user days
Photo: Fredrik Norrsell
We will maintain and, when necessary, increase our access to wilderness classrooms in a way that enables us to meet or exceed our education goals.
We teach wilderness skills and leadership in the most inspiring and spectacular outdoor classrooms around the world. We are an exemplary permit holder on public land, and we build productive partnerships with land management agencies to help steward the future of our wilderness classrooms and our access to them. We pursue opportunities to distinguish ourselves as an educational institution providing value to public lands and the people who visit them. We actively engage with federal agencies and other permit holders to help shape federal and local policies that affect access to and recreational use of public land.
Further Goals and Tactics
We will secure access to new operating areas or additional user days in existing areas that will provide us with flexibility or, at a minimum, absolute ability to support expansion of our student days up to 20% by 2013.
1. By 2009, we will establish a process for producing an annual report that summarizes the status of our use days and facilitates more efficient use of available permitted access.
2. We will assess constraints on our existing permits and agreements, including limits on use allocation imposed by managing agencies and those resulting from degradation of the wilderness classroom. Where appropriate, we will implement solutions to alleviate those constraints.
3. When growth in student interest requires it, we will secure permits or permission to operate in new areas, which could include both public and private lands and waters.
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