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These national organizations provide a wealth of information on public lands.
Association of Partners for Public Lands
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
National Association of Interpretation
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
National Interagency Fire Center
National Park Service
Public Lands Interpretive Association
Student Conservation Association
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey
Association of Partners for Public Lands
Mission: Through education, information, and representation, the Association of Partners for Public Lands enhances the potential of its member not-for-profit organizations to provide the highest levels of program and service to public agencies entrusted with the care of America’s natural and cultural heritage.
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Mission: To focus on the principles of organizing and analyzing geographic information.
National Association of Interpretation
Mission: To inspire leadership and excellence to advance natural and cultural interpretation as a profession (on-site informal education programs at parks, zoos, nature centers, historic sites, museums, and aquaria).
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
Mission: To develop and support environmental learning programs to meet social goals, such as improved health, better education, and “greener,” more profitable business. Chartered by Congress in 1990, NEETF is a private nonprofit organization that plays a unique role in the environmental education and training field. In particular, it addresses the needs of disadvantaged communities requiring cleaner local environments. As a private organization, it takes advantage of its position to build partnerships between government and the private sector and non-governmental organizations. NEETF makes challenge grants to innovative programs, and recognizes outstanding achievement in the field.
National Interagency Fire Center
Mission: To coordinate and support wildland fire and disaster operations.
National Park Service
Mission: To preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world.
Public Lands Interpretive Association
Mission: To foster education about—and appreciation of—natural and cultural heritage resources. The Public Lands Interpretive Association (PLIA) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that shares common goals with public lands agencies and other organizations; it fulfills its mission primarily by assisting and cooperating with those agencies to inform and educate the public about resources and resource-oriented materials and by providing other interpretive products and services of regional and national interest. The interpretive and educational focus of PLIA and its primary area of operations is the American West.
Student Conservation Association
Mission: To provide national and community conservation service opportunities, outdoor education and career training for youth. The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is America’s largest and oldest provider of such service opportunities. SCA volunteers and interns annually perform more than one million hours of conservation service in national parks, forests, refuges, and urban areas in all 50 states.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Mission: To provide quality, responsive engineering services to the nation including: planning, designing, building and operating water resources and other civil works projects; designing and managing the construction of military facilities for the Army and Air Force; and providing design and construction management support for other defense and federal agencies.
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Mission: Develops and implements, in cooperation with tribal governments, Native American organizations, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and other interested groups, economic, social, educational, and other programs for the benefit and advancement of Indian and Alaska native peoples.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Mission: To sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Mission: To manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Mission: To manage public lands in national forests and grasslands. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is both a federal agency and the largest forestry research organization in the world and as such provides technical and financial assistance to state and private forestry agencies. Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the Forest Service, said that the mission of the Forest Service was “to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run.”
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
Mission: To provide leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.
U.S. Department of Defense
Mission: To provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the United States.
U.S. Department of the Interior
Mission: To protect and provide access to our Nation’s natural and cultural heritage and honor the trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and the commitment to island communities. Our motto is: “Guardians of the Past; Stewards of the Future.”
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mission: To protect human health and safeguard the natural environment—air, water, and land—upon which life depends. For more than 30 years, the EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Mission: To work with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
U.S. Geological Survey
Mission: The USGS serves the nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.
Photographs (from left to right): from Reed Kaestner/CORBIS; by Sarah Leen; by Jodi Cobb
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