This transdisciplinary project was executed by a group of seven University of Alabama Honors College seniors with the aid and supervision of UA Honors Professor, Dr. Henry John Latta. 

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"UH401  - The University of Alabama Honors College “Capstone” course - was a new class for me. The goal was to find a way for seniors from a wide range of disciplines to work in a transdisciplinary manner, to create work that not only calls on, but also asks them to expand, their skills, learning practices and abilities from their major. To create a Capstone Project. No template, just an Honors goal based in UA Honors College SLOs. This class undertook a group task designed to help people in a very real manner, a job that could help millions of dollars flow into an area of Alabama that has limited opportunities to significantly boost its income. When the Walker Area Community Foundation asked classes from the UA School of Business to help create an Outdoor Recreational Economy in the area, our class had the chance to be part of the work. It was a small piece – minority concerns when creating an ORE - but it gave us an opportunity to work together to provide a piece of the answer. Not an easy task at that. The limitations that came with the brief (addressed elsewhere in this portfolio) gave us a wide research field,  but asked us to filter local, regional and national data and narratives we found within the purpose and boundaries of the Walker area project. My students waded in, out of their depth at first with new learning structures and practices, but able to resourcefully – and I insist, successfully -- draw on, and adapt, their traditional field’s ways of learning and working to create this report. We finished it confident of its usefulness to the grant writers who will be the next step in making a Walker area ORE a reality contributing to its community."

  - Dr. Latta.