Giving Solitude a Voice Winter Wildlands Alliance
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

Grassroots Advocacy Skills Conference


You can register for the conference here.

Agenda

Friday, October 24th
Noon Registration (American Mountaineering Center)
1 - 3 pm Small Organization Survival Skills Workshop (Conversation Impact)
3:30 - 5:30 pm Communications Workshop, WWA Communications Toolkit
5:30 - 6:30 pm Opening Reception (AMC)
Tours of the American Mountaineering Museum (courtesy of the Colorado Mountain Club)
6:30 - 8:30 pm Opening Dinner with Keynote Speaker Stephen Saunders, President, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (American Mountaineering Center)
 
Saturday, October 25th
8:00 am Continental Breakfast (American Mountaineering Center)
8:30 am Plenary Session, "The Federal Agencies and NEPA" Michael Harris, Director, Environmental Law Clinic, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
9:00 am The Travel Management Rule: Where did it come from? Where is it going?
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Agency Perspectives on NEPA, NFMA and the TM Rule (representatives from USFS and EPA)
11:00 am Travel Planning on the Ground (or, "Waiting for Winter") (representatives from activist groups)
Noon Lunch
12:45 pm Resource Impacts from Motorized Recreation (representatives from CNHP and NPS)
1:30 pm Vail Pass Recreation Area: A model for resolving user conflicts? (White River National Forest, Vail Pass Task Force)
2:45 pm Recreational Trends: Hybrid skiing
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Roundtable: Winter Recreation on Public Lands
4:30 pm Reports from grassroots groups on the year´s successes and challenges
5:30 pm Adjourn