2Department of Health and Wellness Design, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States
3Department of Biology, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Located 50 miles from Chicago, at Indiana Dunes National Park, thousands interact with rangers annually, many taking part in ranger-led hikes. The study focused on visitor recollections of a ranger-led hike that provided opportunities to learn about landscape change, recent events, and associated scientific findings. Interpreters are encouraged to co-construct audience-centered experiences, making space in interactions for visitors’ knowledge, interests, and previous experience. Researchers observed six ranger-led hikes incorporating audience-centered design elements and recruited a convenience sample of twenty-one visitors for participation in a pre-hike survey to gather responses about interest and knowledge before the hike and their willingness to participate in a follow up post-hike phone interv
The part of Mount Baldy that collapsed in 2013 is seen near two wooden snow fences in the distance, as viewed from a ranger-led hike from the dune s western edge in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 2017. The dune is now spreading and gobbling up the exit to the parking lot.
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for what you did. and you will always be our heroes. reporter: his mother calls it simply a miracle. i believe that god did hold him. i believe he was right here, you know, in god s hands. and that god s hands held him and gave him air and comforted him and ultimately kept him safe until they found him. reporter: the dramatic rescue played out july 12th at the indiana dunes national lake shore. 911. there s a kid that fell in a hole on mt. baldy. we have everybody on the way. reporter: nathan stepped on to a sink hole at the top of a sand dune known as mt. baldy. officer greg radiger was first to arrive. it was hard to dig in the sand.