Public and Employee Wilderness Planning Workshop Outline

Public and Employee

Wilderness Planning Workshop Outline

What this workshop is:

Information gathering session for new Wilderness Management Plan. The area has been administered under a Backcountry Management Plan written in 1984.

What this workshop isn't:

This is not a forum for you to speak you concerns in front of the group. Later in the process there will be an opportunity for you to do so.

Workshop Agenda:

At this stage we want to gather ideas from as many people as wish to contribute, so we have structured the workshop as follows:

 IntroductionJohn Chapman

 Slide show overviewTim Devine

 How we will gather input at this workshopTim Devine

 Workshop, Identification of Desired ConditionsStaff

and Strategies

What would you like your wilderness and your wilderness experience to be? We are also asking you to think about what it would take to realize that vision.

WE are asking you to write down what you would like to see (Desired Conditions) in wilderness; and the steps (strategies) that are necessary to achieve those conditions.

Desired Conditions:

One of the first phases of the planning process is getting your ideas on what is important to you about Rocky's wilderness. Think about this wilderness for a moment. If you were to come here 10 years form now, what would you like to see and experience? What is important to you? Try to state each idea in a complete sentence. These "visions" or "desired conditions" may address broad concepts such as natural processes and visitor experiences. In some cased, these visions may be quite different from what is perceived today; in other cases, the visions may be very close.

We have six categories to help you organize you thoughts. You may have several thoughts in a category. Please use a separate card for each thought.

Strategies:

We need your ideas on strategies to achieve the condition you would like to see. What would have to happen for your desired condition to be realized? List all of these strategies on the card. List as many as you can think of.

Share your ideas:

When you have fill out your cards, tape them to the paper under the major category heading that your comments pertain to. Take a look at what others have written. You may find a desired condition that you didn't think of, and you can add to the strategies for that condition. Use as many cards as you need.

Later comments:

If you would like to have time to think or think of other things later you can get one of our mailers or look at our web page and send you comments in that way.

Mailer: Put you name and address on sign-in sheet and we will send you one as soon as they are back from the printer.

Web page address:

What will we do with this information?

We will take the information we receive in this workshop, combine it with that from other workshops and from what we receive in the mail and on the internet. We will sort the comments and use them to help generate a range of alternatives that will appear in a DRAFT Wilderness Management Plan. With the release of that DRAFT plan, you will have an opportunity to view a range of ideas for a variety of topics. We will have another round of public involvement to learn your thoughts on those alternatives.