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InterMedia Productions

Mission Statement

InterMedia Productions provides leadership on designing landscape-level conservation. This is accomplished by breaking down jurisdictional barriers to achieve common objectives in multi-organizational environments. InterMedia partnerships maximize available limited resources to improve landscape-level conditions. Trainers and coaches apply the best available science learning and teaching tools to transfer technologies to assist rural communities.

Vision Statement

InterMedia Productions assists rural America to thrive by expanding economic opportunity through innovation. InterMedia programs connect teachers and youth program leaders with opportunities to build technical skill sets and inspire youth to serve in public ways. On-the-ground performance is how InterMedia measures success—increased partnerships across boundaries to preserve and conserve our Nation’s natural resources: restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.

Strategic Plan Framework

Carla Hoopes founded InterMedia in 1991 to initiate and implement educational programs to help rural America respond to threats and risks to productive farming and ranching, wildlife and watershed management, and community economic viability. Rural people operate in a technologically advanced, rapidly diversifying, and highly competitive business environment driven by increasingly sophisticated consumers.

To assist rural communities in addressing today’s challenges, InterMedia will:

Assist rural communities to initiate self-sustaining education programs to develop solutions to complex invasive species and wildlife management challenges;
Help individuals access opportunities to engage in collaborative on-the-ground programs to conserve, restore, and make private working lands and water resources more resilient;
Help rural America promote agricultural production by reducing the risks associated with terrestrial and aquatic native and non-native invasive plants;
Provide resources to assist collaborative work group access to restoration and adaptive management planning processes;
Increase rural work force skill sets while inspiring careers in science and technology; and
Assist agencies train and coach land managers to connect needs with youth employment opportunities, a strategy to design landscape-level conservation and on-the-ground performance.

InterMedia Productions
Carla Hoopes, Partnerships Coordinator
PO Box 11595
Bozeman, MT 59719

Current Project with U.S. Forest Service and The Bugwood Network

Background. Biocontrol In Your Backyard features five Intermountain West youth environmental education programs. Program sponsors are providing curriculum, activities, and stand alone media elements for creating lesson plans. Much of the content is applicable to Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado. The curriculum is easily adapted to other regions. Beginning in 2018, our Partners piloted new curriculum for the fifth program, Kids In Action for Biological Control Gateway.

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Content. These five youth education programs provide biological weed control information for individuals, teachers, and agencies. Curriculum and activities are provided for teachers who want to engage students in service learning activities like insectary development or community education insect collection or weed pull days. Students learn community leadership skills working on bug crews in the summer, building partnerships between private landowners and government biocontrol programs.

Purpose. The site is designed for agency crew trainers and teachers, who are interested in integrating biological weed control to help meet the challenges of impacts to ecosystems and community economies by plants like leafy spurge, knapweeds, and other noxious and invasive weeds. Teachers can access curriculum and activities to integrate content that will help meet core requirements according to each State. Biocontrol curriculum and activities can be seamlessly integrated into school programs using training segments and stand alone media elements from the resource library.

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The Biocontrol In Your Backyard Gateway includes a trainer module in which professionals, kids, and teachers can access content by lessons, interactives, movies, and biological control curriculum. Teachers can search a resource library to teach to their State's core curricular requirements. Stand-alone media elements in the resource library are available to aid in preparing lesson plans that seamlessly replace other science topics that teachers may typically teach. The Biocontrol Curriculum and activities are designed to add no additional work to the teacher's workload by fitting into a variety of required core subjects, skill sets, concepts, and objectives.

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Gateway

Biocontrol In Your Backyard Portal is a Main Menu for training media that builds on five successful programs.

Content for Biocontrol in Your Backyard is provided by individual program sponsors.

Content is formatted and uploaded by InterMedia

The Biocontrol In Your Backyard Portal collaboration with The Bugwood Network and its content accessible format are sponsored by USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.