interpretive media awards.
site publication.
A publication in any printed format that introduces or orients a visitor to an interpretive site or regional route, and/ or to activities and experiences available within it, including trail guides, Junior Ranger publications, newsletters, and other publications.
2017.
first place.
Junior Ranger Activity Book
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
A variety of activity styles allows kids to find what they enjoy, even if they have a hard time with reading and writing.
Junior Ranger Activity Book
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
A variety of activity styles allows kids to find what they enjoy, even if they have a hard time with reading and writing.
second place.
Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve Junior Ranger Booklet
Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
A fun, flexible, well-tested tool to help adults facilitate opportunities for kids to connect with nature and history.
Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve Junior Ranger Booklet
Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
A fun, flexible, well-tested tool to help adults facilitate opportunities for kids to connect with nature and history.
third place.
Junior Ranger Activity Guide
Garden of the Gods Park
Engaging youth in the enjoyment, education, and stewardship of Garden of the Gods Park.
Junior Ranger Activity Guide
Garden of the Gods Park
Engaging youth in the enjoyment, education, and stewardship of Garden of the Gods Park.
2016.
first place.
Let It Not Happen Again: Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
National Park Service
The National Park Service publications office at Harpers Ferry collaborated with Manzanar and Minidoka national historic sites to produce two park brochures that together illuminate the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and individually highlight each park’s own story.
Let It Not Happen Again: Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
National Park Service
The National Park Service publications office at Harpers Ferry collaborated with Manzanar and Minidoka national historic sites to produce two park brochures that together illuminate the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and individually highlight each park’s own story.
second place.
A Living Canyon: Discovering Life at Grand Canyon
National Park Service
Grand Canyon's extreme changes in elevation, exposure, and climate provides a home for an amazing biodiversity that is accessible for visitor discovery and interconnected with landscapes, and the threats to them, outside the park. While visitor center and wayside exhibits, the park film, park ranger programs, and the park website all give some information about ecology; this brochure provides a free, souvenir-style option for visitors who want to gain a deeper insight into the unique aspects of the park's ecology
A Living Canyon: Discovering Life at Grand Canyon
National Park Service
Grand Canyon's extreme changes in elevation, exposure, and climate provides a home for an amazing biodiversity that is accessible for visitor discovery and interconnected with landscapes, and the threats to them, outside the park. While visitor center and wayside exhibits, the park film, park ranger programs, and the park website all give some information about ecology; this brochure provides a free, souvenir-style option for visitors who want to gain a deeper insight into the unique aspects of the park's ecology
third place.
Cape Lookout National Seashore Unigrid Brochure
National Park Service
The purpose of the Cape Lookout National Seashore Unigrid brochure is to help visitors understand the dynamic, ever-changing landscape of a barrier island, while also providing the orientation specifically requested by the park. Text, images, and design are interwoven much as the lives of the people, plants, animals, birds, and fish are intertwined with the rhythms of the wind, weather, and waves. The map side provides information necessary for a safe visit to these remote barrier islands, while highlighting the location of the diverse ecosystem communities
Cape Lookout National Seashore Unigrid Brochure
National Park Service
The purpose of the Cape Lookout National Seashore Unigrid brochure is to help visitors understand the dynamic, ever-changing landscape of a barrier island, while also providing the orientation specifically requested by the park. Text, images, and design are interwoven much as the lives of the people, plants, animals, birds, and fish are intertwined with the rhythms of the wind, weather, and waves. The map side provides information necessary for a safe visit to these remote barrier islands, while highlighting the location of the diverse ecosystem communities
2015.
first place.
Petrified Forest National Park Unigrid Brochure
Betsy Ehrlich, Tom Patterson, Marsha Wassel, and Richard Ullmann
As the official National Park Service brochure of Petrified Forest National Park, this publication helps visitors gain an understanding of hundreds of thousands of years of geological change that are present above and below this dynamic landscape. It highlights archaeology, ecology, paleontology and stories of over 13,000 years of human history and the physical reminders of those who passed this way. This publication assists visitors in navigating the park today and encourages exploration and discovery. Maps and diagrams help visitors read the landscape to determine which geological eras are revealed in different areas of the park.
Petrified Forest National Park Unigrid Brochure
Betsy Ehrlich, Tom Patterson, Marsha Wassel, and Richard Ullmann
As the official National Park Service brochure of Petrified Forest National Park, this publication helps visitors gain an understanding of hundreds of thousands of years of geological change that are present above and below this dynamic landscape. It highlights archaeology, ecology, paleontology and stories of over 13,000 years of human history and the physical reminders of those who passed this way. This publication assists visitors in navigating the park today and encourages exploration and discovery. Maps and diagrams help visitors read the landscape to determine which geological eras are revealed in different areas of the park.
second place.
"Captured! A Prisoner of War Story" Andersonville National Historic Site Junior Ranger Activity Book
Andersonville National Historic Site
"Captured! A Prisoner of War Story" is a choose your own adventure style Junior Ranger book, that thrusts kids and families into the difficult decisions of captivity in a Civil War prison. Choices define a prisoner of war experience. Do you turn to help or to harm others? Will those choices lead you home or to an unknown fate?
"Captured! A Prisoner of War Story" Andersonville National Historic Site Junior Ranger Activity Book
Andersonville National Historic Site
"Captured! A Prisoner of War Story" is a choose your own adventure style Junior Ranger book, that thrusts kids and families into the difficult decisions of captivity in a Civil War prison. Choices define a prisoner of war experience. Do you turn to help or to harm others? Will those choices lead you home or to an unknown fate?
third place.
Unigrid Brochure, Interactive PDFs, and E-book for American Memorial Park, Saipan
Diane Liggett, NPS/HFC (COR), XNR Productions, and AMME staff
To serve as a primary informational and educational tool, American Memorial Park needed a publication to increase multicultural and multigenerational understanding of the park and to promote preservation and interpretation of its resources. A new, graphically rich brochure could enable a direct visitor connection to over 24,000 people annually entering the park—a destination with substantially increasing numbers of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian vacationers and an aging island population. Providing these audiences with an easy-to-read publication, including essential information in their own languages, would allow more visitors to make their own emotional or intellectual connection with park resources.
Unigrid Brochure, Interactive PDFs, and E-book for American Memorial Park, Saipan
Diane Liggett, NPS/HFC (COR), XNR Productions, and AMME staff
To serve as a primary informational and educational tool, American Memorial Park needed a publication to increase multicultural and multigenerational understanding of the park and to promote preservation and interpretation of its resources. A new, graphically rich brochure could enable a direct visitor connection to over 24,000 people annually entering the park—a destination with substantially increasing numbers of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian vacationers and an aging island population. Providing these audiences with an easy-to-read publication, including essential information in their own languages, would allow more visitors to make their own emotional or intellectual connection with park resources.