For the more information about the air resources of the National
Park Service, please visit http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/. The
Interpretive Solutions publication is a training manual about
harnessing the power of interpretive communications to improve
critical resource protection issues and situations. Matching the
right communications approach with the audience most in need of
being reached can play a pivotal role in whether a situation
stabilizes, improves, or worsens. Appropriate communications can
make a positive difference in the role people play in helping to
achieve desired resource protection outcomes and results. The
merging of sound interpretive methods with scientifically based
resource protection messages is an emerging goal of most, if not
all, land protection agencies and organizations. The steady gain
of this blended approach is encouraging and, amid climate
change, oil spills, unprecedented spread of invasive species,
and radical changes to natural fire regimes, it is needed more
than ever. D