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Costa Rican History
In 1992, Jon led don Oscar around Dartmouth College campus (NH) for three days before the first-time president eventually gave the graduation speech for Jon's class. Who would have known they would both end up in Costa Rica together again?

 

Thank you to Brian Kohl for hosting this web site. See his great photo gallery.

Recent Publications

Forthcoming

  • Holistic interpretive guide training enables the institution as well as the guide. Interpretive Sourcebook. 2008. National Association for Interpretation.
  • Barreras para la implementación de los planes de manejo para áreas silvestres protegidas en Costa Rica. Estudio por Gabriel Robles, Nelly Vásquez, Róger Morales, & Jon Kohl. 2008. The Nature Conservancy Technical Series.
  • “Heritage Interpretation vs. Environmental Education as an Ecotourism Conservation Strategy.” Chapter in Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas: Putting Good Intentions to Work. To be published by CABI Publishing (2008).

Recent Projects

Heritage Interpretation in the Poconos, Pennsylvania

July. Jon and Fermata, Inc. are developing an interpretive framework for all of the Poconos region and Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. Jon will also facilitate a feasibility study for a guide certification program in the Poconos.


Covering Conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef

April. The Summit Foundation hired Jon to study and write about its many funded projects for the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef. After visiting Mexico and Belize, reading dozens of background documents, and conducting 45 interviews, Jon wrote a photojournalistic report about the reef, focusing on learning, engagement, and enforcement.


Jon and TNC/CATIE Write Paper on Implementation Barriers

San José, Costa Rica. July. Jon is lead authoring a paper based on a study done by staff from The Nature Conservancy, and CATIE that investigated why so many management plans in Costa Rica go unimplemented.


Public Use Planning Workshop in Belize

February. UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre along with partners The Nature Conservancy and the United Nations Foundation sponsored a five-day workshop to introduce members of Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Amigos de Sian Ka'an, Belize Audubon Society who manage the Belize Barrier Reef System, and The Nature Conservancy to the Public Use Planning Program, a program developed by Jon while working at Rare and managed by Rare. Jon led the workshop in Belize. Above he presents participants with an important choice they must make. Photo by Guadalupe Salomon.

Speaking

Lecture Tour in Cameroon and Liberia on Ecotourism Development

August, Africa. Jon earned his second Strategic Speaker Initiative Grant with the US State Department, this time to visit Africa for two weeks to discuss environmental protection via ecotourism development. His last grant took him to Ecuador and Bolivia last September on the topic of environmental interpretation.


Presented at 4th International Partners in Flight Conference

February, McAllen, Texas. Representing Fermata, Inc., Jon made a presentation entitled “Interpretation Engages People, Forges Relationships” as part of the Engagement in the 21st Century workshop, coordinated by Fermata president, Ted Eubanks. Partners in Flight aims to promote intercontinental migratory bird conservation.


Presented Paper at Latin American Parks Congress

October 07. Jon presented a paper at the Congress in Bariloche, Argentina on the barriers to park planning implementation. He represents the World Heritage Centre/UNESCO. He presented the same paper on the session about park planning.

See other talks and conferences.

 

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Personal News

Dion Featured in Woodworking Blog

29 May. After visiting the This Is the Place State Park in Salt Lake City, a living historical village from the time of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and so impressing the furniture maker with his hammering skills, Dion appeared on his blog as the craftsman's youngest apprentice. See full text or see blog live.

 

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Photo of the Month

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“Boulder Field.” Self-portraiture in Hickory Run State Park’s Boulder Field, a National Natural Landmark. Carbon Co., Pennsylvania. July 08

 

Other photos of the month

August 3, 2008