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Overview
The
US Forest Service International Programs and its partners
are pleased to offer four international seminar opportunities. These seminars and workshops
stimulate deliberations and problem solving for issues
related to three unique areas of natural resource management.
The US Forest Service supports the seminars and workshops
with the idea of engaging a global network of natural
resource managers in a productive, interactive dialogue
on common challenges and solutions.
Invited
participants are selected to reflect the widest possible
geographic distribution and diversity of experience.
Program activities will take advantage of the experience
of the participants, as well as the unique heritage
of the field locations included in each seminar or workshop.
Three of the programs are intensive, interactive seminars
designed for English-speaking senior natural resource
management professionals who desire to improve their
managerial capabilities and administrative skills. In addition, there is a Spanish-language based field course on protected
area management.
Participants
who have their own financial sponsorship are invited
to get more information and apply
via our website. Please visit the seminar's respective sites for application details and updated tuition costs.
The seminars and workshops include:
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The International Field Course on Wildlands and Protected Area Management, co-hosted by the Center for Protected Area Management and Training at Colorado State University and US Forest Service International Programs, held entirely in Spanish, presents key concepts, principles, and methods of protected area management while emphasizing field-based practical exercises. Participants will interact extensively with local resource users, various local, state, and federal agencies, collaborating private conservation organizations, and other citizen groups involved in natural resource management. This interaction will provide participants with hands-on experience in solving complex biodiversity conservation and natural resource use and management problems, as well as in interacting with the many types of stakeholders involved in real-world situations.
The International Seminar on Protected Area Management is held in the northern Rocky Mountains of the western United States. Designed for senior level planners and managers of nationally significant protected areas worldwide, this integrated state-of-the-art course examines strategies to conserve the world's most special places. The program, sponsored by the US Forest Service International Programs and the Universities of Montana, Idaho and Colorado State, will evaluate policies and institutional arrangements that sustain both people and natural resources.
The
International Seminar
on Forestry and Natural Resources Administration and
Management, cohosted by US Forest Service
International Programs and Northern Arizona University,
presents a broad spectrum of natural resource management
techniques and institutional arrangements so that participants
may selectively gather ideas that can assist in the
management of their lands. The seminar 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.
The International Seminar on Watershed Management will be held in the southwestern United States. Because of the increasing demand, legal conflict and competing uses and practices that place tremendous pressure on its extremely scarce water supply, the southwestern U.S. is an excellent case study for watershed managers. The seminar is designed for mid-career watershed management professionals who desire to take part in an interactive and intensive training and exchange program on integrated watershed management. The program is sponsored by the US Forest Service International Programs.
The African Leadership Seminar on People and Conservation seeks to facilitate shared learning around the pressing issues of people and conservation. During the seminar, participants share experiences and consolidated lessons from Africa and further afield. These lessons have been compiled and are being used to inform and influence conservation management, research and policy reform. Issues that are addressed include: Conservation Challenges; HIV and AIDS: Implications for Effective Conservation Practices; Community Based Conservation and Collaboration; People and Conservation; Transfrontier Conservation; Making Conservation Pay; Education, Research, and the Conservation Agenda; and Leadership and Conservation. The seminar is implemented by University of KwaZulu-Natal ’s Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development,with funding from the US Forest Service and support from the International Centre for Protected Landscapes in Wales. For more information on this seminar, please contact Lauren Chitty at lchitty@fs.fed.us.
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Funding
Neither the cooperating universities nor US
Forest Service International Programs is able to
provide funding for applicants. However, in the past,
many participants of our international seminars and
workshops have been able to find funding through a variety
of other sources. The following list is a selection
of U.S. government agencies, nongovernmental organizations
and other international agencies that have provided
funding--at least in part--to past participants:
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