· WOW — Wonderful Outdoor World: a program to introduce city kids to the outdoors, which began in Los Angeles and, thanks to national partners such as Disney, Coleman, the Forest Service, BLM and NPS, has now spread to cities across the nation;

· the federal recreation-fee demonstration program authorized by Congress for FY96-99 and recently extended through FY 2001;

· Recreation Roundtable research on visitor motivations, satisfaction levels and barriers to participation; beginning in 1996, this research effort became a joint public/private effort involving the Bureau of Land Management and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Additional federal agencies — the Forest Service, the Federal Highway Administration and the Corps of Engineers — have also joined the research effort;

· the National Recreation Lakes Study Commission, and its report, "Reservoirs of Opportunities;"

· amendments to Golden Eagle Pass, making it available for private sale on a commissionable (1993) and consignment (1998) basis;

· the annual Partners Outdoors Fair on Capitol Hill designed to showcase creative partnership efforts aiding protection of America's outdoors and enhancements of visits to public sites, starting in 1995;

· the Smokey Bear hot-air balloon and display, used since 1994 to celebrate that campaign's 50th anniversary and increase public understanding of fires in the forests;

· active federal agency participation in many state tourism conferences;

· the Washington, D.C. Urban Treehouse project, enlisting the NPS to host a modified version of the successful Atlanta experiment;

· a federal partnership manual designed to help field-level officials understand opportunities for cooperation with for-profit organizations;

· a cooperative recreation information system data base pilot project in Colorado;

· Legends awards: recognition of outstanding federal agency employees by ARC during the Great Outdoors Award program in June;

· shared-use facility strategy: an example is the federal information center in the new REI flagship store in Seattle;

· arrangements for a special BLM 50th anniversary display at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center during 1996; and

· an awareness campaign for Universal Access Design to encourage broad- based adoption of new practices by recreation's public and private providers.

This document was prepared by Wild Wilderness. To learn more about ongoing industry-backed congressional efforts to motorize, commercialize, and privatize America's public lands, contact:

Scott Silver, Executive Director,
Wild Wilderness
248 NW Wilmington Avenue,  Bend  OR 97701
Phone (541) 385-5261    E-mail: ssilver@wildwilderness.org