Mystic Mountain: An Educational Alternative Futures Wildland Planning Game

摘要

Mystic Mountain is an educational tool, a game, which teaches wildland planners and managers important concepts of alternative futures planning. The game is patterned after the management of a hypothetical mountainous national forest. During the play of the game, in which 75 years are condensed into approximately 4 hours, the players work together in small teams to manage an area of land, attempting to meet the demands imposed on them by a changing world. The land being managed has potential for a wide variety of uses, from preservation to intensive summer recreation, ski area development, and timber harvesting.