Parks and Recreation Newsletter, Fall 2008

Letter from the Chair
This year has been very challenging for the Parks and Recreation Professional Practice Network. We have seen the e community become a very valuable tool for our committee to exchange thoughts and ideas related to parks and recreation issues. While
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Designing the parks conference
The National Park Service (NPS) and its partners, University of Virginia, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the George Wright Society, are co sponsoring a national conference to look at innovations in the design of
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National Recreation and Park Association Geographic Information System Project
The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) is undertaking a project, with the support of the American Park and Recreation Society, to identify a minimum set of variables (“attributes”) and values to describe parks, trails and recreation facilities. It is called the
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