Intro to Wild & Scenic River Management

Wild and Scenic River Training Series (Part 1 of 6)
Jan. 18 | 11 - 12:30 PT

Presenters

Nancy Taylor has been the Wilderness/Wild & Scenic Rivers Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service since July of 2019. She has worked in wilderness, wild & scenic river, recreation, natural resources, and agriculture fields for over 20 years. Before coming to the Pacific Northwest, she worked in Nevada, Montana, Colorado, and Utah. In her free time she likes nothing more than to be on the hiking trail with her canine companion.

Tangy Ekasi-Otu gained an interest in public lands through an internship with Hispanic Access Foundation in 2018 with the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Office of Public and Legislative Affairs. With an interest in the multiple-use mission of the Forest Service, she pursued a resource assistant opportunity with the Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers Program where she now works as a program specialist with the Washington Office staff.

Registration

Sessions are $15 each for non-members and free for RMS Members. Membership is $60 for Individual members, and group rates are available for organizational memberships. Learn more about becoming a member on our Membership page. You can register for one or all of the sessions using the registration link below.

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About the 2023 Wild and Scenic River Training Series

Join us for a six-part Wild and Scenic River Training Series from January through June 2023! This series is designed to be participant-centered, include active discussion of Wild & Scenic River (WSR) related topics, and empower participants to connect with colleagues throughout the learning series. Our goal is for you to leave the sessions better equipped to engage in WSR planning, monitoring and decision-making processes.

This is for you if you are involved in Wild & Scenic River program planning, coordination, partnership development, stakeholder communication, implementation and decision-making, visitor management and safety, natural and cultural resource management, impact monitoring and assessment, and other activities.

RMS River Training Center instructors will facilitate the series using Zoom, interactive Google products, Padlet, and other virtual learning tools. It is important that participants can fully access and engage with these tools during the Zoom sessions with their cameras on and microphones enabled, ready to connect and learn together. Participation in all six sessions is requested but not required.

Materials are aligned with the vision of the Interagency Wild & Scenic Rivers Coordinating Council and the Technical Core Competencies for River Management Specialists and Non-Specialists. You can find more WSR training resources here or at rivers.gov.

Sessions in this series:

• Jan. 18: Intro to Wild and Scenic River Management
• Feb. 15: The Partnership Wild and Scenic River Approach
• March 15: Wild and Scenic River Values
• April 19: Intro to Section 7 of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act
• May 17: Bank Stabilization Techniques for Wild & Scenic Rivers
• June 21: Visitor Use Management on Wild & Scenic Rivers