International Ranger Training Course (May 12-26, 2016)
Colorado State University’s Center for Protected Area Management (CPAM) is pleased to offer an intensive, 9-day mobile training course for English speaking rangers from around the world. The course will be held prior to, and in conjunction with, the 8th World Ranger Congress, scheduled for May 22-26, 2016 in Estes Park, Colorado, adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park.
This hands-on mobile course will expose participants to a variety of protected areas and contacts with rangers and other protected area staff. The western United States is a region with over a century of experience in managing parks and reserves and is an ideal place to study the strategies and tools that have yielded successful outcomes and also to examine lessons learned from unsuccessful management strategies.
The 9-day course will be spent in the field visiting protected areas in Colorado and Utah. The parks and reserves visited include a wide range of habitat types managed by federal, state, and local governments, and NGOs. Highlights will be trips to Arches, Great Sand Dunes, and Mesa Verde National Parks, Colorado National Monument, national forests, wildlife refuges and tribal lands, and protected areas managed by state and local government and NGOs. The variety of protected area management categories, governance types, and types and levels of tourism activities in the protected areas visited will provide participants with excellent opportunities to learn about a wide array of management approaches.
Training Course dates:
May 12-21, 2016
Congress dates:
May 22-26, 2016
