Continuing Education
Units Now Available for OHV Land Advocacy Webinar
Series
Washington, D.C. (11/6/2009)
-Registration is Available for the Fall Sessions
The National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation
Council (NOHVCC) has partnered with the Marshall
Community & Technical College (MCTC), a Marshall
University affiliate. This partnership will allow
us to provide Continuing Education Units (CEU)
for the OHV Land Advocacy webinar series.
MCTC's CEU program requires 10 contact hours
for each CEU. The full series meets the requirements
for 1 CEU. To make things easy for you, MCTC has
packaged the full session and will process the
certification for the package of all 4 sessions
for an administrative fee of only $10.00 If you
need the CEU prior to the completion of all sessions,
you may apply for the partial CEU for each session
attended. The MCTC administration fee for each
session is $5.00.
To sign up for the CEUs, go to the MCTC
website and add the NOHVCC sessions into your
cart. MCTC will process the application and send
you the appropriate certificates for the sessions.
While you are at it, check out the other CEU
courses offered by MCTC If you have not already
completed one or more of the 4 separate modules
in the series, you may sign up for the fall dates
on our webinar
page. The modules and the dates are listed
below. There is no cost to attend the webinar
session because the funding for the creation of
the webinars was provided by the Motorcycle Industry
Council, the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America,
and the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association;
and the funding for the distribution of the webinars
was provided by the Yamaha OHV Access Initiative.
Module 1 Route Designation
How Did We Get Here? (2 hours) This module
will help people understand the process required
for land planning, it focuses on the US Forest
Service Process, but the basics can be applied
to any government agency. The course also discusses
the US Forest Service Travel Management Rule,
its implementation so far, and how to apply it
going forward; as well as the US Forest Service
structure.
o November 9th at 7pm central
o November 24th at 10am central
Module 2 Trail System Planning Part 1
(3 hours)
This module will help riders' and land managers
understand how to plan, design, manage, and maintain
trail systems that meet the riders' needs by providing
high quality and adequate quantities of trails.
The module will start with an introduction to
OHV recreationists as it is hard to plan a trail
to fit their needs if you don't know what their
needs are. It will then talk about the basic principles
of OHV trail system planning before going into
details on what is required to plan a sustainable
trail system.
o November 12th at 11am central
o November 24th at 6pm central
Module 3 Trail System Planning Part
2 (2.5 hours)
This module starts with an overview of what was
learned in module 2. It then goes into detail
regarding trail maintenance, monitoring, and signing
requirements. The details will instruct the land
manager in various techniques to meet
their needs and give the recreationists information
regarding how they can assist the land managers
with these trail requirements.
o December 8th at 7pm central
o December 15th at 10am central
Module 4 Making It Work- Where Do We
Go From Here? (2.5 hours)
This module will help riders understand how to
be effective in their efforts to influence the
decisions that will determine where they can ride.
It will give concrete examples of how to work
effectively with land managers and make comments
during the agency process. This module will also
spend time looking at 4 areas where the design,
planning, and implementation of the principles
conveyed in earlier modules have worked to create
successful trail systems. This module closes with
ideas for both the enthusiasts and the land managers
to move forward to creating sustainable OHV trail
systems.
o December 10th at 11am central
o December 15th 6pm central
The workshop modules were developed in cooperation
with the American Motorcyclist Association, BlueRibbon
Coalition, Motorcycle Industry Council, Off-Road
Business Association, Specialty Vehicle Institute
of America, and United Four Wheel Drive Associations.
For more information and to register for our webinar
sessions, go to our webinar
page or call 800-348-6487.
The National Off-Highway Vehicle
Conservation Council, as a national body of OHV
recreation enthusiasts, develops and provides
a wide spectrum of programs, materials and information,
or "tools", to individuals, clubs, associations
and agencies in order to further a positive future
for responsible OHV recreation.
www.nohvcc.org
Great Falls, MT 59404
800-348-6487
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