The Eppley Institute of Parks and Public Lands has started a multi-year collaboration with the United States Forest Service (USFS) to review and improve its National Accessibility Program over the next several years. With over 10,000 outdoor recreation areas in the USFS system, this project… Read More »Eppley Begins Work with USFS National Accessibility Program
Eppley’s online training in wilderness and wildlands management has deep roots in its partnership with the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center in Missoula, Montana. With a suite of over 30 online courses, the Eppley-Carhart Wilderness Management trainings explain and explore management approaches for our… Read More »Like Wild Things? Eppley has free courses for you!
Part of the Eppley Institute’s Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands Leadership series. Eppley’s online leadership courses for parks, recreation, and public lands managers are found on proValens Learning. Leaders, it is widely believed, are most effective when they recognize there is no expert leader. The… Read More »Leading and Commitment to Learning
Radius Indiana, a regional economic development organization in South Central Indiana, is building the Monon South Trail with collaboration from IU’s Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. The Monon South Trail is a proposed 57-mile trail between Mitchell and the Clark/Floyd County border that… Read More »Monon South Trail Community Planning Project
There are a wide range of public agency communicators for parks, recreation and public lands agencies, their partners, and members of the public who provide crucial news, updates, and briefings to the public and media. Most organizations are understaffed, and management responsibility is diffused making… Read More »Free Training for Park Agency Public Communication Officers-Leaders