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improve the management of its watershed.

One enormous undertaking is constructing a trail around the entire lake, called the

Great Baikal Trail. Modeled on a similar

trail around Lake Tahoe, the Great Baikal

Trail will be 10 times longer—about 1,500

miles (2,400 km) long. It will connect more

than eight national parks and protected

areas, offering tremendous opportunities

for low-impact tourism. Support has come

from the U.S. Agency for International

Development, the Sport Tourism and

Mountaineering Federation of Buryatia in

Russia, the Earth Island Institute, the

Tahoe-Rim Trail Association, and others.

Project planning and training began in

2002. Three experts from Lake Baikal traveled to the United States for training.

Related developments included an interpretive brochure and a conference in Russia.

For 2003, plans have included bringing volunteers and tourists to work on the trail, a

train-the-trainer workshop at Lake Baikal,

and more training for specialists.

The USDA Forest Service is also working with the Tahoe-Baikal Institute to

improve watershed planning for Lake

Baikal’s largest tributary, the Selenga River.

Reaching far into Mongolia, the Selenga

watershed encompasses an area about the

size of Spain. In 2004, the USDA Forest

Service will bring two experts from the

Selenga watershed to a regional planning

workshop at Lake Tahoe. 

Tahoe and Baikal are two jewels in the

crown of the world’s protected areas. “If

you are stopped suddenly by a penetrating

blue and your heart stops ... it means, this

is Baikal,” sang the Russian poet Mark

Sergeev, indicating the depth of local feelings for “the Old Man,” as the lake is

sometimes known. The partnership

between Russia and the United States to

conserve such world treasures has payoffs

for both sides—and for future generations.

Edmund Gee, formerly deputy forest supervisor of the USDA

Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, is now

the national partnership coordinator for the Forest and

Rangelands Staff in Washington, DC; and Tony Brunello is

the executive director of the Tahoe-Baikal Institute, South

Lake Tahoe, CA.

AN INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN

THE USDA FOREST SERVICE AND THE

TAHOE-BAIKAL INSTITUTE WORKS TO

PROTECT LAKE BAIKAL—THE “BLUE

EYE OF THE EARTH.”

“Blue Eye of the Earth”: Protecting Lake Baikal

by Edmund Gee and Tony Brunello

WHAT’S INSIDE? 

P ROTECTED A REA

M ANAGEMENT

◆ International Perspective:

Making Protected Areas Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

◆ Wildness With Utility: 

Wilderness in the United States . . . . . . . . . . .3

◆ From Paper to Reality: 

Protecting Parkland in Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

◆ Southern Africa: 

Learning How To Manage Protected Areas . . . .5

◆ News Bits from Around the World . . . . . . . . . . .6

◆ Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

No. 3, November 2003:

Protected Area Management

ake Baikal has been called “the

blue eye of the Earth.”1 Located

in southern Siberia, Lake Baikal

is the deepest lake on Earth,

and, by volume, the largest. It contains a

fifth of the world’s freshwater supply, and it

is by far the world’s oldest lake. Whereas

most lakes seldom last longer than 30,000

years, Baikal formed in a rift valley 25 million years ago!

That makes Lake Baikal a living laboratory

of evolution. Of its 1,700 native species, more

than 1,000 are found nowhere else on Earth.

For thousands of years, native Siberians

have venerated the lake, which plays a

prominent role in the Mongolian myth of

creation. In 1916, the first nature reserve was

founded on Baikal’s northwestern shore;

more reserves have been added since. 

In 1990, the Tahoe–Baikal Institute was

formed to help protect both Lake Baikal and

California’s Lake Tahoe, similarly treasured

in the United States. In 2002, the U.S.

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest

Service established a long-term relationship

with the Tahoe-Baikal Institute to help

develop ecotourism at Lake Baikal and to

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ANDREY SUKNEV 

News from International Programs of the USDA Forest Service

1 Sergeev, Mark. Words of a Poet. In: City of Irkutsk, Lake

Baikal Homepage. http://www.irkutsk.org/baikal/mark.htm
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here’s no doubt about it; protected areas are flourishing

worldwide. Their number has

grown from almost zero in 1900 to more

than 30,000 today. About 9 percent of the

Earth’s surface is now in some form of

protected area.

What is a protected area? There are

many different types. They range from

strict nature reserves to distinct cultural

landscapes. The USDA Forest Service has

almost a century of experience with a wide

range of protected areas, from wilderness

areas to multiple-use management areas

(see the article by Richard Paterson).

Whatever the type, protected areas

reflect a broad moral choice to conserve

landscapes of value, whether natural or

cultural (see the article on Lake Baikal by

Edmund Gee and Tony Brunello). But what

kind of protection should be provided? And

who should decide? 

Over the years, we have discovered the

value of involving stakeholders in deciding

what to protect and how to manage it.

Local communities, national governments,

indigenous peoples, nongovernmental

organizations, industry, and individual citizens all have a stake in the outcome.

Collaborative programs, institutions, and

Making Protected Areas Work

by William J. McLaughlin

International Perspective 

processes are becoming the norm for the

successful practice of conservation. 

Some scientists, however, have argued

that collaborative models are not working.

They call for returning to a more preservationist, expert-driven model of protected

area management. However, such an

approach is unlikely to succeed in today’s

world. In fact, the “classic” national park

model has not been very successful in

empowering citizens, building trust, promoting societal learning about complex

environments, or sharing the responsibility

for their care, let alone preserving biodiversity (see the article on parkland in Bolivia

by Larry Swan).

Because protected areas are central to

sustainable development, today’s challenge

is to build new collaborative and cooperative capacities among stakeholders. The

USDA Forest Service has a history of building stakeholder capacity for land

management, both at home and abroad

(see the article on capacity-building in

southern Africa by Wayne Freimund). Mission-oriented conservation can happen

when it reflects the shared responsibility of

stakeholders and adequately considers biophysical, social, and political consequences.

Whatever the mission of a protected

area, today’s managers and stakeholders

need access to the latest scientific and

experiential knowledge, as well as thinking

about protected area management. That

requires a sustained investment in social

capital and human capacity.

That’s why three universities in the

United States—Colorado State University

and the Universities of Idaho and

T

What Is the Consortium for International Protected Area Management?

The Consortium for International Protected Area Management was founded in 2000 by Colorado State University, the University of Idaho, and the University of Montana in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service

International Programs Staff. The consortium aims to strengthen the worldwide capacity for protected area

policymaking, planning, and management through education, training, technical cooperation, and research. 

Since August 2000, the consortium has offered an International Seminar on Protected Area Management where

participants from nearly 30 countries have explored strategies for conserving the world’s most special places. In

addition, the consortium offers the Spanish-language-based International Field Course on Wildlands and 

Protected Area Management. The consortium now nurtures a growing network of protected area managers and

stakeholders through continuing education and shared information and technology.

The consortium’s activities include:

◆ developing a wildlife viewing program for ecotourism in southern Africa;

◆ helping to restore productivity in buffer zones around protected areas in the Philippines;

◆ working to resolve conflicts between fishermen and conservationists in Ecuador’s Galapagos Marine

Reserve; and

◆ training managers in Guatemala and Malaysia to collaborate with communities in planning and managing

resource use in protected areas.

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ixing a degree of wildness

with utility.” That’s how Aldo

Leopold framed the wilderness

question. Leopold was a founder of the

wilderness movement in the United States,

where we distinguish between wilderness

areas and wilderness. Wilderness areas are

formally set aside in the National Wilderness Preservation System, some 105

million acres (42 million ha) of specially

protected land. They might not include

every part of what some people might think

of as wilderness. 

The system represents more than 80

years of efforts to preserve the wildness of

the vanishing open country in the United

States by keeping out roads, machinery,

“

M

KARL PERRY

Wildness With Utility: Wilderness in the United States

by Richard Paterson

and most extractive uses. The USDA Forest

Service has a long history of wilderness

management. Leopold, Arthur Carhart, and

Bob Marshall—all one-time USDA Forest

Service employees—led the way (see the

sidebar). In 1924, the USDA Forest Service

designated the first wilderness area. Not

until 1964 did the U.S. Congress, through

the Wilderness Act, assume the role of designating wilderness areas.

Some see wilderness areas as places for

no management at all. But, in the spirit of

Aldo Leopold, the United States does not

cordon off wilderness areas. The more benefits people can get from a wilderness area

without sacrificing its wildness, the more

likely it is to be valued and protected by

future generations. 

The benefits are enormous. Many rivers

in the United States begin in wilderness

areas, which are critical for watershed protection. Threatened and endangered

species find refuge there.

Other uses are more direct. Worldwide,

wilderness is essential to native populations for traditional subsistence and

cultural activities. In research, it provides a

baseline for studying more managed landscapes. Grazing, tourism, and

outfitter/guiding all generate jobs and

badly needed income in rural areas. But

perhaps the greatest benefit for U.S. citizens is the “wilderness experience”; there

are about 13 million of them each year on

the national forests alone. Properly manEIGHTY YEARS AGO, THE USDA 

FOREST SERVICE PIONEERED THE

NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION

SYSTEM TO PRESERVE THE WILDNESS

OF THE VANISHING OPEN COUNTRY

AND SUSTAIN ITS NUMEROUS

BENEFITS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

OF AMERICANS.

Arthur Carhart (1892–1973) became the

USDA Forest Service’s first full-time landscape

architect in 1919. Assigned to plan recreational

development of Trappers Lake in Colorado, he

instead pressed for keeping the lake roadless

and pristine. It remains so to this day—the first

formal application of the wilderness concept in

the United States. Carhart’s efforts also led in

1926 to protection of the Quetico–Superior

region in Minnesota, now the Boundary Waters

Canoe Area Wilderness. Carhart later wrote that

“there is no higher service that forests can supply ... than the healing of mind and spirit which

comes from ... great solitude.” 

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) began his career with the

USDA Forest Service in New Mexico. Inspired by

Carhart’s kindred spirit, he championed creation of the

Gila Wilderness in 1924, the first designated wilderness area in the United States. Leopold later pioneered

the field of wildlife management, weaving together

forestry, agriculture, ecology, biology, zoology, and

education. His philosophy evolved from use-oriented

conservationism to a holistic view that soil, water,

biota, and other factors are interwoven on

the land. His land ethic, postulating a categorical

imperative to keep every

part, has deeply influenced land managers

worldwide.

Bob Marshall (1901–1939) foresaw early in his

career a need to reserve 10 percent of all U.S. forest

lands as recreation areas. In the 1930s, as chief of

recreation for the USDA Forest Service, he reformed

the use of wilderness and primitive areas by banning logging, roadbuilding, and motorized vehicles.

With Aldo Leopold and others, he cofounded the

Wilderness Society in 1935. In 1938, he took a team

across the West to map and propose millions of

acres for designation as primitive or wilderness

areas. Shortly after his death, the USDA Forest Service designated a wilderness in his honor, the Bob

Marshall Wilderness in Montana.

Three Pioneers: Shaping the Agency’s 

Long History of Wilderness Management

USDA FOREST SERVICE 

USDA FOREST SERVICE 

USDA FOREST SERVICE 

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ormal designations as protected areas alone can do little to

conserve the world’s last great

places. Local communities must have an

economic stake in their sustainable use. 

A case in point comes from Bolivia. In

1979, recognizing the value of its natural

treasures, Bolivia established a park in the

northeastern part of the country. 

Today, the Noel Kempff Mercado National

Park, about 3.7 million acres (1.5 million

ha) in size, features some of the richest

biodiversity in the world. More than 1,100

animals have been identified, along with an

estimated 4,000 vascular plants. 

The park lies deep in the Amazon Basin.

Fewer than 30 people live or work there,

and it takes 2 days to get there by bus from

the nearest major city or 2-1/2 hours by

small plane. 

In the late 1980s, Noel Kempff Mercado

National Park’s isolation began to lose

some of its protective value. Land was

being cleared for grazing and settlement;

logging operations, both legal and illegal,

were making inroads into the ancient forest; and poachers were depleting both fish

and wildlife resources. Paper protection

alone could do little to discourage rising

encroachment and abuse.

In the early 1990s, working with the

Bolivian Government and local nongovernmental organizations, The Nature

Conservancy enrolled the Noel Kempff

Mercado National Park in its new Parks-inPeril program. The program builds

partnerships between national and international organizations, both public and

private, giving local nongovernmental

organizations the capacity to manage protected areas in collaboration with local

businesses and communities.

The Nature Conservancy worked with

the Friends of Nature Foundation, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to

protecting Bolivia’s endangered tropical

habitats. In the 1990s, the foundation

signed a 10-year agreement with the Bolivian Government to manage the Noel

Kempff Mercado National Park. Support

and funding came from the U.S. Agency

for International Development, along with

technical assistance from the USDA Forest Service. 

USDA Forest Service technical

assistance has ranged from ecotourism and

interpretation to forest products marketing

and utilization. The purpose is to reduce

pressure on park resources by helping

communities near the park practice sustainable forestry. In collaboration with the

Amazon Center for Sustainable Forest

Enterprise, a local nongovernmental organization, the USDA Forest Service works

with producers to link certified forest products to the international export market.

That includes training to improve dry kiln

practices and utilization of lesser known

tree species. All wood comes from forests

certified by third parties as well managed.

The future looks hopeful for Noel

Kempff Mercado National Park. The private

foundation that manages the park collaborates with local communities and has

established an ecotourism and educational

outreach program. There are now two visitor facilities within the park, some small

private facilities in local communities, and

about 25 park guards. About half the

guards come from nearby communities.

Protected areas in developing countries

make sense, as long as local people have

the means and the know-how to protect

the land while sustaining their communities. International assistance can help forge

the partnerships needed to build local conservation capacity and leadership. Through

the Parks-in-Peril program and with help

from the USDA Forest Service, Noel Kempff

Mercado National Park offers hope for conserving our biodiversity heritage

worldwide.

Larry Swan is a forest products utilization specialist for the USDA

Forest Service, Winema National Forest, Klamath Falls, OR.

USDA FOREST SERVICE ENGINEER

BOB SIMONSON HELPS LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN BOLIVIA PRACTICE

SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

TO REDUCE THE PRESSURE ON PARK

RESOURCES.

DEEP IN THE AMAZON: A SIGN

WELCOMES VISITORS TO NOEL

KEMPFF MERCADO NATIONAL PARK,

WHICH HAS SOME OF THE RICHEST

BIODIVERSITY IN THE WORLD.

From Paper to Reality: Protecting Parkland in Bolivia

by Larry Swan

F

MICHELLE ZWEEDE

MICHELLE ZWEEDE
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magine a vast field of flowers

bathed in warm sunshine. The

field undulates around you in a

gentle breeze, with colors in every hue,

some so iridescent that they seem to glow.

You are in one of the 25 richest and most

threatened reservoirs of plant and animal

life on Earth, a place with more than 8,000

plant species, 70 percent of which are

found nowhere else.

You are in South Africa, in the Cape

Floristic Kingdom, one of only six floral

kingdoms worldwide. The Cape Floristic

Kingdom is by far the smallest floral kingdom, covering only 35,000 square miles

(90,000 km2) in an arc stretching along the

southern tip of Africa. Its beaches and

inland valleys, plains, and mountains support a tremendous variety of habitats. Its

plant species richness is therefore even

greater than that of the Boreal Kingdom,

which covers 40 percent of the Earth. 

The Cape Floristic Kingdom is one of 25

biodiversity hotspots named by Conservation International, a nongovernmental

organization dedicated to the conservation

of biodiversity worldwide. Yet only about

20 percent of it is under a form of management that sets biodiversity conservation as

an explicit goal. Here and elsewhere

throughout southern Africa, protected

areas play a critical role in conserving the

world’s biodiversity. 

Protected areas also offer hope for the

people of southern Africa. Some see them

as refuges for native species, others as

places for recreation and spiritual renewal,

and still others as opportunities for

economic development. Their values and

dreams must be woven into both redevelopment plans and biodiversity protection

projects. The success of both will depend

on the knowledge and skill of policymakers

and managers.

Recognizing this, the Centre for Environment and Development at the

University of Natal has developed a multidimensional educational program in

protected area management. The program

evolved from humble beginnings, with

steady support from the USDA Forest Service. Growing interest in protected area

management in southern Africa gave the

USDA Forest Service new opportunities for

helping to build regional capacity for sustainable resource management.

In 1987, the USDA Forest Service invested in South African wilderness training

through the Wilderness Action Group, a

local nongovernmental organization. Relationships blossomed as the University of

Natal got involved. Today, the Centre for

Environment and Development works

together with the Wilderness Action Group

and two U.S. partners—the University of

Montana and the USDA Forest Service—to

provide educational programs for both

managers and policymakers.

With sound public policy and welltrained managers, the outlook is good for

protected areas throughout southern

Africa. Future generations will enjoy their

rich biodiversity, and local people can capitalize on a flourishing ecotourism industry

to develop a service-oriented local economy. By serving as a catalyst for capacity

building, the USDA Forest Service has

enhanced protected area management,

both abroad and at home, through valuable

contacts and exchanges.

Wayne Freimund is the Arkwright associate professor of

wilderness studies and director of the Wilderness Institute at

the University of Montana, Missoula, MT.

STRETCHING DOWN THE SOUTHERN

TIP OF AFRICA, THE CAPE FLORISTIC

KINGDOM IS HOME TO INCREDIBLE

PLANT AND ANIMAL BIODIVERSITY.

OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS, THE

USDA FOREST SERVICE HAS SUPPORTED TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF

PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT FOR

LOCAL PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.

Southern Africa: Learning How To Manage Protected Areas

by Wayne A. Freimund

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WAYNE FREIMUND

WAYNE FREIMUND
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Disaster Relief in Iraq: USDA

Forest Service Draws on a 

Century of Service

In spring 2003, war in Iraq left thousands of

people in need of emergency relief. The

United States sent a Disaster Assistance

Response Team to the region to assess

relief needs and coordinate a response. The

team included a disaster response specialist

from the USDA Forest Service International

Programs Staff. The specialist headed a

U.S. Government civilian unit in northern

Iraq responsible for providing information

and programmatic recommendations for

activities to the core team based in Kuwait

City. The local team coordinated with representatives from other nongovernmental

and international organizations, the United

Nations, and Coalition Civil Affairs forces. 

In June 2003, a USDA Forest Service

logistics specialist from the Sequoia

National Forest in California joined the core

Response Team in Kuwait City. He coordinated the transport of humanitarian aid

shipments from stockpiles in Kuwait and

elsewhere to locations in Iraq.

These specialists belong to a cadre of

trained and experienced personnel from

the USDA Forest Service and the U.S.

Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land

Management who provide emergency

disaster relief worldwide. The USDA Forest

Service has almost a century of service in

emergency response on wildland fires. Its

expertise is being tapped worldwide

through the International Programs Staff’s

Disaster Assistance Support Program, with

funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign

Disaster Assistance.

Amazing Find in the Bahamas:

New Hope for Kirtland’s Warbler

In the winter of 2002-2003, researchers

confirmed 30 individual warbler sightings

at 12 different locations in the Bahamas.

With only about 2,000 Kirtland’s warblers

left in the world, that many sightings in the

bird’s little-known winter range signaled

clear progress in recovering this songbird.

The endangered songbird nests only in

northern Michigan, where decades of habitat loss once brought warbler populations

to dangerously low levels. Since the 1960s,

recovery efforts have paid off in the bird’s

summer range, but little is known about

the bird’s winter needs. 

The USDA Forest Service’s International

Programs Staff and the International Institute for Tropical Forestry joined with

partners to establish the Kirtland’s Warbler

Research and Training Project in the

Bahamas. The project monitors the bird in

its winter habitat while training Bahamians

in methods of research and management.

Partners include The Nature Conservancy,

the Bahamas National Trust, and the

Bahamas Department of Agriculture. 

A team that included two graduates

from the College of the Bahamas made the

most recent sightings. Their newfound

knowledge will enable them to continue

monitoring the warbler and improve its

winter habitat in the Bahamas.

A Lake Runs Through It

Some of the world’s most spectacular wildlife—elephants, zebras, hippopotami, buffalo,

and giraffes—live along Lake Manyara, at the

foot of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania. This

watershed and its catchment areas represent

part of a key wildlife corridor. 

The USDA Forest Service and the

African Wildlife Foundation, with funding

from the U.S. Agency for International

Development, have joined to protect watershed resources. Together, the two

organizations are helping local stakeholders identify conservation targets and

threats to the lake’s hydrology system, biodiversity, and habitat. 

In December 2002, the partners held a

joint workshop, a first step in assessing the

Lake Manyara watershed. Workshop participants outlined key issues and critical

problems for the landscape surrounding

Lake Manyara.

The workshop was the first of several

steps to assess the Lake Manyara watershed. By determining conditions in the

catchment areas and characterizing

threats, Tanzania’s land managers can

improve land use planning, enhance agriculture and livestock management, and

develop and enforce water laws. 

In the coming months, the USDA Forest

Service and African Wildlife Foundation

will gather remaining data and organize a

final workshop.

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Montana—established the Consortium for

International Protected Area Management

(see the sidebar on page 2). The USDA Forest Service’s International Programs Staff

joined forces with the consortium to

expand international education and training programs in protected area

management. Together, the partners sponsor programs such as the International

Seminar on Protected Area Management,

held annually at the University of Montana,

and the Spanish-language-based International Field Course on Wildlands and Protected Area Management.

In these seminars, no single management approach is favored. Like the articles

in this issue of Global Leaflet, the seminars

are designed to raise broad questions and

explore the variety of possible management

responses around the world, not deliver

easy answers.

Long after such courses end, participants

benefit from continuing education and

shared information and technology through

the growing worldwide network of protected

area managers. Through such courses,

protected area managers worldwide will

have more of the tools they need to make

informed decisions, in collaboration with

the people they serve, in caring for the land

on behalf of future generations.

Dr. William J. McLaughlin is the executive director of the

Consortium for International Protected Area Management and

a professor in the Department of Resource Recreation and

Tourism, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho,

Moscow, ID.

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Visit these Web sites for more information related to articles in this issue:

http://www.tahoebaikal.org - Tahoe-Baikal Institute

http://www.earthisland.org - Earth Island Institute

http://www.tahoerimtrail.org - Tahoe-Rim Trail Association

http://www.protectedareas.net - Consortium for International Protected Area Management

http://www.cnr.colostate.edu - Colorado State University’s College of Natural Resources

http://www.uidaho.edu - University of Idaho

http://www.umt.edu - University of Montana

http://www.wilderness.net - Wilderness Society

http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/default.cfm - National Wilderness Preservation System

http://www.fs.fed.us/htnf/wildact.htm - Wilderness Act

http://carhart.wilderness.net - Arthur Carhart Center

http://leopold.wilderness.net - Aldo Leopold Institute

http://nature.org - The Nature Conservancy

http://parksinperil.org/ - Parks-in-Peril

http://www.aceer.org - Amazon Center for Sustainable Forest Enterprise

http://www.fs.fed.us/global/is/ispam/ - International Seminar on Protected Area Management

http://www.fs.fed.us/global/is/field_course/ - International Field Course on Wildlands and Protected Area

Management

http://www.nwi.org - National Wilderness Institute

http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/ - US Agency for International Development’s Office of 

Foreign Disaster Assistance

http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/ - International Institute for Tropical Forestry

http://www.awf.org - African Wildlife Foundation

aged, these experiences do no harm to and

win support for protected areas. 

Wilderness managers have discovered

that different wilderness areas should be

managed differently, taking both natural

and social factors into account. Heavily

used wilderness areas near urban zones

must be managed differently from those

more remote. Moreover, some management

is needed to support the “wilderness experience,” such as building trail bridges,

installing climbing anchors, and using bear

boxes.

The wilderness area concept is amazingly flexible, combining wildness with

utility. Today, the United States can be

proud to leave a lasting legacy of wildness

with utility through the National Wilderness

Preservation System.

Richard Paterson, formerly Deputy Director of Recreation,

Heritage, and Wilderness Resources, is now the Leadership

Succession Program Leader for the USDA Forest Service,

Washington, DC.

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20th International Seminar on Forest

and Natural Resources Administration

and Management

Dates: September 2004

Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, and

the District of Columbia, USA

Jointly offered by Colorado State University

and USDA Forest Service International Programs, this seminar is designed for senior

natural resource management professionals. The 19-day program focuses on

strategies and methods to develop, manage, and conserve natural resources for the

sustained delivery of goods and services to

meet the full range of human needs. For

application details, visit http://www.fs.fed.

us/global/is/isfam/welcome.htm or write

to Ann Keith, College of Natural Resources,

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

80523-1401, USA, or e-mail at

ifs@cnr.colostate.edu.

2004 International Seminar on Protected

Area Management

Dates: August 2004

Missoula, Montana, USA

This seminar—jointly offered by the University of Montana, University of Idaho,

Colorado State University, and USDA Forest

Service International Programs—is geared

for senior-level managers and policymakers working in protected areas. The

program examines and stimulates debate

on management strategies, policies, and

innovative institutional arrangements to

address the conservation and use of the

world’s most special places. For application

details, visit http://www.fs.fed.us/global/

is/ispam/welcome.htm or write to Wayne

Freimund, School of Forestry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA,

or e-mail at wayne@forestry.umt.edu.

2004 International Seminar on 

Watershed Management

Dates: Summer 2004

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA

Jointly offered by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the USDA Forest

Service International Programs, this seminar

is geared towards senior-level natural

resource professionals. The course examines

the needs and challenges facing watershed

managers and focuses on strategies and

methods to manage and conserve watershed resources sustainably. For application

details, visit http://www.fs.fed.us/global/

is/watershed/welcome.htm or write to Dr.

Earl Spangenberg, University of WisconsinStevens Point, College of Natural

Resources, Stevens Point, WI 54481-389,

USA, or e-mail at espangen@uwsp.edu. 

Bulletin Board

The Global Leaflet presents highlights of policy, research, technical

cooperation, development, and conservation activities in which the

USDA Forest Service is involved worldwide. Its purpose is to demonstrate the breadth and importance of international collaboration on

natural resource management issues and to share information within

the USDA Forest Service and with our partners in the United States and

around the world.

International Programs is dedicated to applying the wealth of skills

within the USDA Forest Service to foster sustainable forest management globally. We encourage linking the agency’s researchers,

foresters, wildlife biologists, hydrologists, policymakers, and disaster

specialists with partners overseas to work on assignments in the areas

of technical cooperation, policy assistance, and disaster coordination.

Our focus is on key natural resource problems and issues in countries

with significant forest resources and important forest-related trade with

the United States. International cooperation results in improved sustainable natural resource practices in partner countries, develops the

skills of USDA Forest Service personnel, and brings back knowledge

and innovative technologies to the United States.

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etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice

and TDD).

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Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964

(voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman

Chief of the Forest Service Dale N. Bosworth

International Programs

USDA Forest Service

1099 14th St. NW, Suite 5500W

Washington, DC 20005-3402

Website www.fs.fed.us/global

Director Val Mezainis 

Phone (202) 205-1650

Art Director Woody Machalek

Editor Hutch Brown

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

2004 Curso de Manejo de Áreas

Silvestres y Protegidas

(2004 International Field Course 

on Wildlands and Protected 

Area Management)

Dates: Summer 2004

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Co-hosted by the Center for Protected Area

Management and Training at Colorado

State University and USDA Forest Service

International Programs, this course, held

entirely in Spanish, presents key concepts

and methods of protected area management while emphasizing field-based

practical exercises. For application details,

visit http://www.fs.fed.us/global/is/

field_course/welcome.htm or write to Ryan

Finchum, Colorado State University, Center

for Protected Area Management and Training, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1480, USA, or

e-mail at finchum@cnr.colostate.edu.