NR 1.70(2)(b)(b) Understands resource use issues, limits, capabilities and problems; NR 1.70(2)(c)(c) Analyzes and evaluates personal and public values that affect resource management; and NR 1.70(2)(d)(d) Acquires the individual and collective skills and purpose to act responsibly in using natural resources in work and leisure. NR 1.70(3)(3) The department shall assist Wisconsin educational institutions at all grade and age levels by: NR 1.70(3)(a)(a) Making available supplemental services, education materials, expertise of department employees and volunteers, and facilities and properties. NR 1.70(3)(b)(b) Cooperating and coordinating with the department of public instruction, University of Wisconsin System, Wisconsin board of technical college system in assisting teachers, administrators and others interested in education in understanding the importance of their role in environmental education and in obtaining knowledge, skills and materials in this instructional area. NR 1.70(4)(4) Department education programs shall follow agency policies, management directives and guidelines. Educational programs should be a means of achieving management goals and objectives; should complement and be consistent with agency priorities; and should focus on the areas of natural resource management and environmental protection. To implement its educational policy, the department shall: NR 1.70(4)(a)(a) Designate the office of communication as agencywide coordinator of environmental education activities. NR 1.70(4)(b)(b) Create a department education committee, appointed by the secretary, to advise the secretary on environmental education matters. NR 1.70(4)(c)(c) Actively cooperate with private, state and federal agencies and organizations with existing or potential interest in environmental and conservation education. NR 1.70(4)(d)(d) Consider and incorporate education elements into annual and long-range program plans and budgets. NR 1.70(4)(e)(e) Consider environmental education skills and interest in the recruitment, training, promotion and assignment of department employees. NR 1.70(4)(f)(f) Delineate environmental education responsibilities in position descriptions. NR 1.70(4)(g)(g) Incorporate additional and broadened environmental education elements in department subprograms. NR 1.70(4)(h)(h) Incorporate environmental education elements in property and facility acquisition, development and programming. NR 1.70(4)(i)(i) Utilize the MacKenzie Center and youth camps and facilities for environmental education programming. NR 1.70(4)(j)(j) Identify teachers and selected adult groups as primary audiences to maximize program impact. NR 1.70(4)(k)(k) Encourage involvement with volunteer, school, youth, special interest and adult groups. NR 1.70(4)(L)(L) Develop written and audio-visual materials, supplies and aids necessary to accomplish program goals. NR 1.70 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, October, 1983, No. 334, eff. 11-1-83; correction in (3) (b) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 6., Stats., Register July 2001, No. 547; 2015 Wis. Act 330 s. 20: am. (3) (b) Register April 2016 No. 724, eff. 5-1-16; correction in (4) (a), (i) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6., Stats., Register February 2019 No. 758. NR 1.71NR 1.71 Policy on friends groups. NR 1.71(1)(1) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to encourage and provide for the establishment of friends groups, including not-for-profit concession corporations and cooperating associations. The department may work with a friends group established under the provisions of this section as the lead volunteer organization for a property, facility or program. The department may grant friends groups certain privileges, such as use of department equipment and facilities, under the terms of a written agreement. Nothing in this section prohibits the department or its individual properties, facilities and programs from accepting benefits from other groups or individuals, or from entering into separate agreements with others, if not in conflict with agreements executed with a friends group. NR 1.71(2)(2) Applicability. The provisions of this section are applicable to all friends groups formed to support department properties, facilities and programs, including not-for-profit concession corporations and cooperating associations. NR 1.71(3)(a)(a) “Cooperating association” means a friends group organized to support only interpretive programs. NR 1.71(3)(b)(b) “Friends group” means a non-profit, non-stock, tax-exempt corporation organized to support, assist and promote the mission and activities of the department and department properties, facilities and programs and other activities as approved by the department under the provisions of a written agreement with the department. NR 1.71(3)(c)(c) “Not-for-profit concession corporation” means a friends group organized to sell goods and services in a department facility and to return the profits to the department under the provisions of a written agreement with the department. NR 1.71(4)(a)(a) Objectives. The objectives of friends groups shall be to: