American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
The Leadership Association of 420 Public Colleges and Universities Delivering America's Promise
American Democracy Project (ADP)
Civic Engagement in Action Series: Stewardship of Public Lands
The Yellowstone Experience
Beginning in 2005, faculty representatives from participating AASCU, institutions have been annually invited to spend a week in Yellowstone National Park with our partner, the Yellowstone Association, studying controversies about wolves, bison, snowmobiles, and grizzlies. We begin the week examining the science and history of the controversies, listening to scientists and Park rangers. Then at the end of the week, we interview local citizens on both sides of the issues, including political activists, business people, ranchers, and ordinary citizens. The four main controversies explored are over the management of bison, grizzly bears, wolves and the use of snowmobiles.
Participants return to their campuses to design programs for students in relation to public lands. Some focus on the controversies in the Yellowstone ecosystem, while others focus on local, regional, or national public land and resource issues.
American Democracy Project Website
Map of Stewardship of Public Lands Participants by University
View American Democracy Project Stewardship of Public Lands in a larger map
Contents
Stewardship of Public Lands Resources
Videos on the Yellowstone Experience
In 2007, a documentary was produced about this initiative called Mammoth to Mammoth. In this documentary, the Yellowstone Experience is featured as well as a the Stewardship of Public Lands program at Western Kentucky University. Below is the YouTube channel featuring the Mammoth to Mammoth documentary as well as supplemental video resources.
Yellowstone National Park Issues YouTube Channel
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 1
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 2
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 3
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Faculty Resources
Stewardship of Public Lands Presentations – ADP Conference 2009
Document Repository
Stewardship of Public Lands: A Handbook for Educators
Monograph describing the campus work of the Stewardship of Public Lands initiative.
Sample Syllabi
Science and Civics in Action, Longwood University
Longwood Science and Civics in Action.pdf
Honors & Leadership in Community and Place, University of Northern Colorado
UNC Honors & Leadership in Community and Place.pdf
Sustainability and America, SUNY Fredonia
Sustinability in America, SUNY Fredonia.doc
Suggested Reading Lists
AASCU Suggested Texts from Yellowstone Participants 2008.pdf
Other Program and Course Ideas for SPL & ADP
AASCU Program & Course Ideas from SPL Participants 2008.pdf
Case Studies
Great Lakes Case Study.doc
KEEP Case Study.doc
Great Lakes-Manuscript-Blasko.doc
Course Assessment Tools
CIRCLE: Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
http://www.civicyouth.org/
Support and Training
AASCU Yellowstone Experience
AASCU SPL Website
Center for Whole Communities
Published Resources
Somewhere Out There: An Experimental Learning Model for Teachers
Diversity Works - The Source
"Welcome to The Source, the online sortable database of diversity, anti-oppression, and community-building activities developed by DiversityWorks. We invite you to use this tool to strengthen your trainings, introduce new material, and work towards creating a more just world."
Losing Ground: Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption
(This was referenced in the SPL presentation on climate change down at the Yellowstone Institute.)
Multimedia Resources
Video
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 1
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 2
Mammoth to Mammoth Documentary Part 3
Broadcasts
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Premieres September 27, 2009 on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/
The PBS companion website has extensive resources.
Note, the DVD for this broadcast is expected to be released on October 6, 2009.
NOW: Dancing with Wolves
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/233/index.html
The NOW episode first aired on PBS August 16, 2006, with David Brancaccio.
Viewers Note: In the link above, there are two stories within the NOW episode. The Dancing with Wolves story begins at the midpoint of the broadcast.
YouTube
YNPIssues
Yellowstone National Park Issues YouTube Channel
Elliott Kennerson, the documentary filmmaker who produced Mammoth to Mammoth, has uploaded a series of videos detailing many of the cases examined by faculty in the Yellowstone Experience. The films, produced by graduate students in Montana State's Science and Natural History Filmmaking program, explore some of the major debates in relation to Yellowstone National Park management and its wider natural corridor, sometimes called the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Photographs from Stewardship of Public Lands Faculty
Kay Gandy, Monument Valley and Desert Southwest
Donald Rodriguez & Scott Frisch, California State University Channel Islands
George Mehaffy, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
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AASCU ADP Materials & Resources
Stewardship of Public Lands: A Handbook for Educators (2010, monograph)
This interdisciplinary course seeks to engage students in the analysis of contentious public issues (focused particularly on natural resources) using multiple disciplinary lenses. In so doing, students are challenged to apply their disciplinary training and work with their knowledge and skills developed through their General Education program to evaluate the ways in which citizens have addressed these difficult issues. In turn, students transfer what they have learned about citizens acting in other places to a complex public issue in our own community. They practice the application of skills, particularly writing for the public arena, toward greater understanding and appreciation of the local issue and the lives of active citizens.
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Web Links & Online Resources
Partner Organizations
New York Times Knowledge Network
Yellowstone Association
National Parks
National Park Service
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
*Premieres September 27, 2009 on PBS
National Parks-America's Best Idea Grants
Civic Engagement and Deliberative Democracy
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
The Democracy Imperative
Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Everyday Democracy: Ideas and Tools for Community Colleges
Other Suggested Sites from ADP SPL Members
National Public Lands Day
Project for Public Spaces
Public Lands Information Center
US Army Corps of Engineers
US Bureau of Reclamation
US Forest Service
US Fish & Wildlife Service
NPR "The Best of Our Knowledge" Interview about Yellowstone National Park
National Issues Forum Write-Up about seminar
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Student Reflections on Stewardship of Public Lands
Student Reflections, SUNY Fredonia
Student Reflections, SUNY Fredonia.rtf
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Additional Resources and Items of Interest from SPL Members
New York Times: Outposts - Michelle's Next Mission
by Timothy Egan on July 11, 2009
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/michelles-next-mission/?emc=eta1
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Invitation to Post
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