For nearly twenty years, the American Recreation Coalition has held two major events each year wherein they instruct federal land managers how to run America's public lands. Each year,  the ARC creates a new rhetorical frame to which the land managers adapt, sing and dance.

This year's theme is "More Kids in the Woods". It's not exactly new, but it is very effective. It is unusually effective because it appears to be so apple-pie.

In reality, the ARC's  Kids in the Woods frame dates to the time when the ARC and that great environmental villain, Senator Frank Murkowski,  conceived their "Recreation Super-Bill" --- a major legislative effort designed to transform the Great Outdoors into the great wreckreational playground. Murkowski's super-bill was stillborn, but it was unneeded. The land management agencies operating under the ARC's directive  have all but accomplished the wreckreation agenda without need of authorizing legislation.

The Partners Outdoors 2008 meeting ended yesterday. Beginning on Tuesday of this week, seventy five leaders of industry and seventy five high level land management agencies yucked it up at Utah's Snowbird Resort. Today those land mangers return to the important tasks of implementing the newest instructions handed down by ARC's President, Derrick Crandall. Come August, the public and private sectors will meet again for the ARC's "Great Outdoors Week." There will be many high level meetings in between.

For many years I have referred to Partners Outdoors by its more appropriate name "Collusion Outdoors." My reports are available on the Wild Wilderness website www.wildwilderness.org/docs/po.htm

Today the Forest Service placed upon its website a 6 minute video depicting Chief Kimball and the Head of Recreation, Jim Bedwell, giving their welcoming presentation. If you look closely, you can almost see the strings controlling their wooden limbs and passive mouths.

To learn more about this year's event, click here.

Scott 

---  ACCESS VIDEO AT THIS LINK ----

http://www.fs.fed.us/news/2008/video/01/partners.shtml

Partners Outdoors
Senior members of several private and governmental resource and recreation organizations met on January 13-16 in Snowbird, Utah. Attendees at the Partners Outdoors gathering were addressed via video by Chief Gail Kimbell and Jim Bedwell, Director of Recreation and Heritage Resources. [transcript/speech]  

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