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Ranger Rendezvous XXV
ANPR
colleagues met Nov. 18-22, 2002, in Reno
 
About 150 members and friends of ANPR met Nov. 18 - 22, 2002, at Harrah's Resort in
Reno., Nevada, for the annual Ranger Rendezvous.Workshops and general sessions
filled the days, with Reno's nightlife occupying the evenings.
ANPR sponsored three pre-Rendezvous training courses: Administration for First Line Supervisors, Maximo 101 and Political Reality. 
Special Rendezvous activities included a buffet dinner
and Vegas-style show at the Eldorado Hotel and a tour of historic Virginia City during the free afternoon. Regular raffles and auctions, a super raffle and the photography contest also were highlights. More details about the week's activities are in the Winter 2002-03 issue of Ranger magazine.
Agenda
Saturday - Nov. 16
1300 - 1800 - ANPR Board of Directors Meeting
Sunday - Nov. 17
0800 - 1700 - ANPR Board of Directors Meeting
1700 - Ice Breaker - Hospitality Room
Monday - Nov. 18
0830 - Rendezvous Opening - Host park superintendent and regional director
0930 - ANPR President - State of the Association Address
1030 - Rejuvenate the Spirit - Keynote Address, Kathleen Dean Moore - author
1330 - 1500 - New Role of Partnerships in the NPS
1530 - 1700 - ANPR Business Meeting
NOTE: Hospitality Room opens at 1700
Tuesday - Nov. 19
0700 - 0830 - Continental Breakfast for "Newcomers"
0830 - 0900 - Raffle, fines and announcements
0900 - 1030 - Keynote Address - NPS Director Fran Mainella
1100-1200 - Rejuvenate the Spirit - Decreasing Stress
1330 - 1400 - Raffle, fines and announcements
1400 - 1500: Hot Off The Press - Washington Office Update
1530 - 1700 - Tentative Breakout Sessions - "The High Water Mark," The George Wright Society and Financial Management: What Your Parents Never Told You
1845 - 1900 - Meet in hotel lobby for walk to Eldorado Hotel
1900 - 2030 - Buffet Dinner at Eldorado Hotel
2100 - 2300 - Show at Eldorado, "Tap Dogs"
NOTE: Hospitality Room opens at 1700
Wednesday - Nov. 20
0830 - 0900 - Door prizes, fine and announcements
0900 - 1015 - Tentative Breakout Sessions: Interpresciencetection, Canadian Monitoring Network and Managing Parks Like a Business
1030 - 1200 - Rejuvenate the Spirit - Fun in the Workplace, Southwest Airlines
1200 - 1700 - Free Afternoon: Choice of tour of historic Virginia City,
golf or Reno on your own
1800 - 1930 - Reception with Exhibitors
NOTE: Exhibits Open 1700 - 1930
Hospitality Room opens at 1200
Thursday - Nov. 21
0830 - 0900 - Door prizes, fine and announcements
0900 - 1015 - Tentative Breakout Sessions: Interpresciencetection, Canadian Monitoring Network, Financial Management: What Your Parents Never Told You
1030 - 1200 - Rejuvenate the Spirit - Lighten the Load, Decreasing Stress
1330 - 1500 - ANPR Business Meeting
1730 - 1800 - Fun Run
1800 - 1930 - Reception with Exhibitors
1930 - 2030 - Harpers Ferry Film Fest
NOTE: Exhibits open from 1000 - 1930
NOTE: Hospitality Room opens at 1700
Friday - Nov. 22
0830 - 0900 - Final door prizes, fines and announcements
0900 - 1030 - NLC Roundtable Session
1030- 1130 - Final ANPR Business Meeting and Super Raffle Drawing
1130 - 1200 - Closing Ceremony - Rangers Own
Workshops
- Interpre-science-tection: Fire Island NS took a unique approach to a resource management issue, the overpopulation of whitetail deer, assembling an interdisciplinary task force and an outside agency to take the issue head on. Participants to this workshop learned how park staff combined their efforts with the Humane Society to reduce the population on a fragile barrier island.
- Canadian Monitoring Network: This new Canadian national monitoring initiative helps communities inform and influence local sustainability, by monitoring changes in the local ecosystem and taking an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
- Managing Parks Like a Business: NPS and NPCA have initiated a business-planning program for national parks. These plans enable parks to express our true cost of doing business and where we fall short financially.
- Financial Management - What Your Parents Never Told You: Thinking about the future, retirement, investments, and estates. What about your aging parents? Now is the time to learn and the time to act.
- National Park Service Fundamentals Training Program: The NPS Fundamentals Program is designed to create a workforce dedicated to achieving the mission of the National Park Service. Though available to all NPS employees, Fundamentals is especially appropriate for new employees. The training manager of universal competencies gave a briefing on this new five-part, two-year course of study.
Special Interest Group Meetings: Meeting space was available for informal discussions on topics of interest to participants.
Here is a list of Rendezvous XXV task leaders:
Dan Moses - overall Rendezvous coordinator, mosesdd@aol.com
Barry Sullivan and Barbara Goodman - program chairs, SullivanBT@aol.com and GoodmanBo@aol.com; they are planning a theme of "How Integrated Management and Divisional Efforts are Accomplishing the Mission."
Pat Quinn - hotel contract, pquinn82@cybertrails.com
Bob Reynolds - onsite coordinator, BobRPark@yahoo.com
Dan Greenblatt - Super Raffle, dan_greenblatt@email.msn.com
Erin Broadbent - registration, ebroadbent@aol.com
Wendy Lauritzen - exhibits, wendy.lauritzen@juno.com
Mark Harvey - training courses, mpharvey@inreach
Marianne Karraker - merchandise sales, makarraker@hotmail.com
Dan and Diane Moses - regular raffle, mosesdd@aol.com
Teresa Ford - photo contest, fordedit@aol.com
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