Everglades has developed a free boater education course to orient and educate boaters to the unique features of the park's marine waters. Our overall goal is to protect marine resources while providing world-class recreational opportunities. In the park's 2015 General Management Plan, park stakeholders and managers identified boater education as a key strategy.#N#Substantial funding and support for the program was received from the South Florida National Parks Trust, the Florida Bay Stewardship Committee, and many knowledgeable stakeholders who saw the benefit of the program and worked with the park's team and the Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands to develop the education course.
When will the program begin? Starting August 1st, 2019, Everglades National Park will require all marine boaters to have completed the park’s Boater Education Program. The program has been available for several months in this informal, non-mandatory period.
What are the elements of the boater education program? The program consists of three parts: the education course, the course assessment, and the boating certificate. The course includes text, maps, and a few short videos and interactive demonstrations on boating and navigation.
Based on extensive public involvement over many years in the GMP process, there was widespread public support for instituting this program in order to better protect important park marine resources and enhance visitor use and enjoyment throughout the park’s more than 530,000 acres of marine waters. In addition, the State of Florida identified boater education as one of the best ways to increase resource protection and stewardship and avoid damage to seagrass and other resources in shallow waters.
No, the boater education program is free of charge. Though at one time park managers considered a fee to support administering the program and supporting on-the-water projects (e.g., channel marker maintenance, resource studies), other revenue sources have been identified to meet those needs.
Because people living in Norway are onto something – 18 things, in fact.
Things that Norwegians do to get cozy: eat sweets and/or chips, go to a cabin in the middle of the mountains with no electricity or running water, spend time with people they love, light approximately 8,000 candles around their home, and eat tacos.
Well, if you praise a Norwegian person they will: take a deep breath, look really skeptical, scratch the back of their head while looking around for an exit, and then quickly scurry away. Thanks, janteloven.
In fact, they used to be quite stern. Norway also used to be one of the poorest countries in Europe, and now it’s one of the richest. Maybe money can buy happiness?!
Now, I don’t know that much about the different types of snow (though I probably know more than you since, you know, I live in Norway), but I’m guessing they do, so it makes perfect sense to give them different names.
I know because when I worked in a supermarket I sold fish oil by the jugful, and these Norwegians buy a whole lot of it. Now that’s a good habit.