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Imagine a program...
(diverse forest, fishing, hiking, and related activities throughout the region ... all for tourists and visitors, citizens, land owners and the overall well-being of the people of an area, perhaps the Roanoke area)
Temporarily call it the Rangin' 'Round the Region Program, (the triple R).
It is conducted by a proposed, diverse, for-profit or not-for-profit alliance of existing and new private enterprises called Lasting Forests.
The company (a business ecosystem) makes money by improving land and related resources and their use around Roanoke.
Starting with about 12, the company may eventually have 40 types of activities or enterprises ... all working together ... all carefully related.
There are 6 groups or types of enterprises. None is more important than another is. All, by design, are related and supportive. They are a single system.
The types of enterprises (with a few examples) are:
System Central provides management, marketing, publications, employment services, insurance, facilities, computers, space, laboratory, communications, web site, and transportation. This single group provides cost effectiveness for all groups and stability for some activities that are seasonal and affected by storms, fires, etc. It directs the work that is intensively financial-incentive-driven.
Service and Action Groups (Herein, only a list is provided. Details (either brief or well-developed) are available upon request)
The Wildland Knowledge Base (computer-aided library services)
Land and Water Management and Operation
Memberships in Outdoor Related Organizations (A consistent strategy used throughout the System gains memberships and lasting contacts with all participants for education, information, opportunities, product and resource loyalties, and marketing)
Nature Folks
Writers' Camps Sports and Games Group
Avi (new bird-watching sport like golf)
Products (software, clothing, books, photographs, art, special hiking staff, carving woods, decomposition monitoring substance, bird houses, hiker's cookies, world ball)
Imagining...
Perhaps neighboring farmers or other land owners might develop trails, rent horses, conduct snow or hay rides for fees, have snow-sled 'runs', or develop cross-country ski routes.
Perhaps there may be archery and other ranges, camp grounds, geologic study areas and mining operations tours
There are areas suitable for rock climbing, challenge courses (including such courses for horse and rider.
Local tours might be made to dedicated wild areas, ancient forests, meadows, and wildland pastures.
There are opportunities for knowledge-search areas
Forest harvest operations, themselves, make excellent exciting trips for which people are willing to pay to see and learn about the operations and effects. Some of these may use existing local, state, county, and national lands but private land use for profit requires the marketing, management, insurance, and coordination of the RRR Program.
Guidance (dynamic planning system)
Pest Force (vertebrate pest damage management)
Stoneworms (trail builders)
Wildland Crew (constructive outdoor exercise and comradeship)
The Tour Group (local and international experiences and tours)
Fireforce (superior firefighters)
Rollers (community service crews from the courts)
Safety and Security (rural protection)
Teams (associated consultants)
Good Dog (hunting dog testing for trailing)
Stables (riding, care)
Competency (professional testing)
Memorials (unique honoraria or memorials - books or spaces)
Outfits (clothing design and wear testing)
Visual Analyses (landscape and scenic analyses)
Realtors (land analyses)
The Forests Group
Walnut Vales (nutmeats, specialty woods, furniture blanks, soil additive, and dyes)
The Fishery
Pasture and Range Group (pasture and rangeland management)
Butterfly Band (gardens, analyses, bee keeping)
Raccoon (memberships, management, contests, dogs)
Wild Turkey Group (wild turkey management; total system)
Energy Core (conservation and preparation for fossil energy shortages)
NovoSports (unusual sports like tug of war, world ball, races)
Gamma (chess-like computer contest - playing to win in land management)
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