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The name of the newsletter, The Rendezvous Site, was carefully crafted and modeled after what happens at a wolf rendezvous site. There, wolf pups play and learn to use their muscles and senses. It's a place or places in their territory that they are familiar with and comfortable; these are "their" places. They usually have babysitters (yearling wolves), but if none are in the pack, they may be alone at times to make mistakes and be careless. It's here that pups learn to be wolves by exploring but also learning from their elders.
RESA is somewhat like a rendezvous site for students to explore "their" place, learning to use their senses, and learning from experienced resource professionals. They, like the wolf pups, make mistakes, but in the end they learn and apply what it takes to be a steward of the land and it's resources.
The The Rendezvous Site features familiar natural resource issues that challenges us in so many ways. For example, from a romantic sociological view, wolves and humans may be the best example in American history of the man versus nature conflict. From a management view, it represents maybe the greatest example of the quandary between social and biological carrying capacity. From a RESA student's view, it represents a place-based learning opportunity in science, history, language arts, and outdoor education.
See the RESA homepage for the most recent issue of the newsletter.
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