File-ID: NPF-OCTA-Trails_GVLNT
Pathfinder Passports Biogegraphy(cc)
Program-Owner: dba ACCTTS-LLC
RJB-Revised:  7:45 AM 11/18/2005 (Learn & Share Tab)
Reviewers: Transformation Dynamics Minnesota
Kan-ed Network Research Director
Mission: Enabling a Sense of Place in Space
to Conserve Landscapes & Cultivate Mindscapes
More "clues" about protecting & preserving inter-regional historic trails ... 
Know Your Clear Creek Watershed Impact Zones (WIZ)
Know Your Watershed Impact Zones (WIZ) … GeoVenturing-LNT protects
backyard wildlife habitats … Distributed Visual Learning Courseware @ Kan-Ed Digital ...
www.acctts.com/geoscout/AIMS-JoCo-D22_ GeomorphologyOrtho_WRMA-5220am.htm
Social Network Analysis
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Conf/SunbeltXXII/schedule.htm/
ALL - Please preview this (MentorshipART of Peace) RANT-site "thinkLet"
for the Lower Kaw Valley (Glacial Hills Biogeography) background ...
http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/2005/11/great-plains-watershed-biogeography.html
FOCUS: Piloting "Eco-History Trails & Tales" for GeoVenturing-LNT(cc)
programs that will sustain "Social Capital" conservancies
along the KCAHTA California Road from Miriam to Lawrence ...
GOALS: Capture and conserve multimedia oral & visual histories
about people, place & NATURAL history foodscapes with USDA-NRCS co-funding
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/index.html#wetlandgains
PRESENT: Leavenworth County Basehor-Linwood Schools (USD458)
has the distributed blended visual learning benchmark model to equal or exceed
http://vcs.usd458.org/developmentofVCS
PROPOSED: Provide shared digital library UMN-StoryTech resources capable
of launching a Virtual School for Environmental Studies (VSES)
that helps to preserve & protect "Prairie Passages in Kansas" ...
BENEFITS (Top-5):
B1: Recycles prior "lessons learned" by ALL-WinWin KELP graduates.
B2: Integrates high-touch and high-tech distributed learning protocols.
  *** B3: Enables sustainable activity-based learning without school busing.
B4: Celebrates & preserves "Eco-Histories" of unsung hometown heroes ...
B5: Creates a digital bridge between rural & urban-wetland communities.
HASSLES (Top-3):
H1: Compartmented complacency driven by regional "turf protection" tendencies ...
However, my USNR-1967 Saber was honed to cut RED TAPE and wedding cakes!
H2: Mistrust between federal, state, county & local/tribal jurisdictions ...
However, General Mills Foundation (Community Action Grants) shared
a mindmap their R&D folks used to resolve inter-operability issues
http://RecyclingSteps.futurethought.org
H3: Lacking a sustainable shared mission, Vision & VALUES 
among "Community of Practice" (CoP) stakeholders 
However, TDMN-Protocols (cited below) have already served
as effective catalysts for collaborations needing UNITY ...
NEXT STEPS (Action):
Ratify appointment of ACCTTS-LLC as a designated agent of NEKLS
for the mutually-beneficial purposes of crafting Kan-ed Network
Futures Workgroup grant-funded proposals (See Below)
http://www.kan-ed.org/futures.htm