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Partners Outdoors is perhaps the most important
public-lands meeting you will never get to attend. It is "by invitation only"
and, as usual, YOU ARE NOT INVITED.
It is also, or so I suspect, the biggest regularly-scheduled Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) violation that occurs each year involving federal
employees and the recreation industry. If that assessment is correct, then this
event is held in violation of the law. Whether legal, or not, the public has a
right to know what is transpiring behind these closed doors.
"Collusion Outdoors" as I have referred to this
event for many years, is sponsored by the American Recreation
Coalition, ARC's Recreation Roundtable and each of the federal
land management agencies. Pasted below is a condensed memorandum
recently distributed within the Bureau of Land management which gives a brief,
and much-sanitized, overview.
To learn more, please read the attachments for which links have been
provided at end of the BLM memo. To lean the rest of the story, here's a GOOGLE
search link. The first 50 or so hits take you to pages on the American
Recreation Coalition's website. The next dozen take you to pages on Wild
Wilderness' website. After that you'll find links to agency websites and after
that, you're on you own to further explore the driving force behind the Corporate Takeover of Nature and the Disneyfication of the Wild.
Scott
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of
Land Management
Washington, D.C. 20240
November 6, 2006
Information Bulletin No. 2007-008
Program Area: Partnerships and Recreation and Visitor
Services
Purpose: This Information Bulletin (IB) announces the
Partners Outdoors 2007 Annual Workshop scheduled for January 7 - 10, 2007, at
Lake Arrowhead, California and solicits BLM participation.
Background: The Partners
Outdoors program was initiated in 1992 to draw together tomorrow’s leaders from
federal recreation-providin
g agencies and the recreation industry to
accomplish two goals: (1) reinforce an awareness of shared customers and
interdependence of the public and private sectors, and (2) encourage
partnership-
based actions to better serve recreation visitors to public
lands. After more than a decade, both goals have been achieved. The tangible
results of Partners Outdoors are especially heartening. Major actions have
occurred as direct outgrowths of Partners Outdoors meetings and dozens of other
advances have developed as participants have maintained contact long after the
formal sessions adjourned.
The BLM annually participates in the Partners
Outdoors Workshop, along with the American Recreation Coalition (ARC), the
Recreation Roundtable, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of
Reclamation, and the Federal Highway Administration.
Coordination: This IB was coordinated with the ARC, the Recreation
Roundtable, the Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning, and the
Director, Office of National Landscape Conservation System.
Specific accomplishments of the Partners Outdoors program are listed in
Attachment 1.
Attachment 2 describes the theme of Partners Outdoors 2007... ARC will
contact each participant who is to confirm his/her room reservation with a
credit card.
Attachment 3 lists the draft agenda including the dates and times of the
Workshop.
Robert D. Roudabush
Acting, Deputy Assistant Director
Division of IRM Governance,WO-
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