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Looking for outdoor recreation training and professional development opportunities? Check out these websites for upcoming virtual, hybrid, and in-person trainings as well as other resources. SORP members can also search Libraries a comprehensive list of outdoor recreation resources and websites.

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Acumen Academy

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 16, 2024

Acumen Academy - Course Catalog Training focused on people first approach to planning and design Cost: Free and fee-based#human-centered#Recreation-Planning#Planning#Design

Training Resources Planning Frameworks

Adaptation Workbook

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Adaptation Workbook The Northern Institute for Applied Climate Science and the USFS Eastern region developed this workbook and training to support climate change planning and implementation. The workbook and training inc...

Training Resources Climate Adaptation

American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 18, 2024

American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association AIANTA has teamed up with industry and federal partners to provide a series of webinars on resource development opportunities and other tourism related topics. Most webin...

Training Resources Heritage & Cultural Resources

Arthur Carhart Wilderness Training Center

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Arthur Carhart Wilderness Training Center The Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center offers classroom & hybrid training courses, self-paced on-demand online courses, distance education courses, and free webin...

Training Resources Sustainable Recreation Training

Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE)

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) AORE is the leading organization in the United States dedicated to serving the needs of outdoor recreation professionals and educators from academia to private secto...

Training Resources Professional Organizations

Avarna Group

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 16, 2024

Avarna Group Trainings and workshops focused on recreation and conservation practitioners Cost: Fee-Based #Recreation#Culture#history

Training Resources Communications and Strategies

BLM National Training Center

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 18, 2024

BLM National Training Center The BLM National Training Center hosts a wide variety of courses related to Bureau of Land Management programs. Some courses are open to non-agency employees. They also host a Knowledge Resou...

Training Resources Programs, Certificates, and Degrees

Center for Appreciative Inquiry

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Center for Appreciative Inquiry Inquiry and strengths-based approach to working with groups Cost: Fee-based#human-centered#Community#Community-Engagement

Training Resources Communications and Strategies

Center for Creative Leadership

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Center for Creative Leadership Research-based leadership development programs for early to advanced career professionals Cost: Fee-based#leadership#Professional-Development

Training Resources Programs, Certificates, and Degrees

Center for Outdoor Recreation Economy (Oregon State University)

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Center for Outdoor Recreation Economy (Oregon State University) Degrees and certificates from a land grant university, as well as microcredential programs in DEI, outdoor recreation management, and professional readiness...

Training Resources Programs, Certificates, and Degrees

Center for Protected Area Management (Colorado State University)

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 9, 2024

https://warnercnr.colostate.edu/cpam/training-materials-management-tools/ Trainings and tools focused on international protected area management and visitor use Cost: Free #Planning#Resource-Management#Visitor-Use-Manage...

Training Resources Protected Areas

Clemson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Online Master’s Degree

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 18, 2024

Clemson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Online Master’s Degree Clemson University is among the nation’s top universities in graduate education in the fields of parks, recreation, tourism and related disciplines. The M.S. (...

Training Resources Programs, Certificates, and Degrees

Connected Realities

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Connected Realities Facilitation, group dynamics, equitable participation in community engagement Cost: Fee-based#facilitation#Equity#Community-Engagement

Training Resources Communications and Strategies

Conservation Webinar Portal

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Conservation Webinar Portal The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) provides free live and on-demand webinars focused on forestry, agriculture, conservation, climate science and other natural resource disci...

Training Resources Sustainable Recreation Training

Cultural Landscape Training Path

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 18, 2024

Cultural Landscape Training Path On-demand training for federal and state employees, NGOs, and local communities to increase respect for the land and engagement with indigenous communities. Cost: Free#training#federal-go...

Training Resources Heritage & Cultural Resources

Developing the Thinking Sawyer – Chainsaw Recertification in the Eldorado NF

HYPERLINK Posted Jul 16, 2025

By Don Amador Trail volunteers and USFS staff gathered at Elkins Flat OHV Area in June for a chainsaw recertification class hosted by PWORA and Eldorado National Forest. Aligned with the Forest Service’s updated National...

Training Resources Programs, Certificates, and Degrees

EcoInclusive

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 16, 2024

EcoInclusive Trainings and workshops focused on recreation and conservation practitioners Cost: Fee-based #training#workshops#Recreation#Conservation

Training Resources Welcoming and Belonging

Educate 360

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

Educate 360 Suite of training brands for project management, technology, and analysis Cost: Free and Fee-based#training#project-management#technology#analysis

Training Resources Training

Eppley Center for Parks and Public Lands (Indiana University)

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 9, 2024

Visit the Eppley Center for Parks and public Lands (Indiana University) here! Partnership with USFS, NPS, USFWS and other land and water agencies for training development and delivery. Most courses are focused on operati...

Training Resources Outreach and Environmental Education

ESRI Academy

HYPERLINK Posted Oct 17, 2024

ESRI Academy Free, on demand GIS training#GIS#training#mapping

Training Resources Mapping and GIS