FORT KENT – The town and the University of Maine at Fort Kent will hold an open participation interactive television workshop titled “Gateway Communities: Keys to Success” 12:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8, at UMFK’s Nadeau Hall Teleconference Center.

The introductory workshop is designed for community leaders, planners, public land managers and anyone interested in the success and development of gateway communities, which are towns and cities that border America’s national and state parks, wildlife refuges, forests, historic sites, wilderness areas and other public lands.

The workshop will be broadcast from the National Conservation Training Center’s production studio and will be led by Edward T. McMahon, vice president of The Conservation Fund. Representatives from Zion National Park and Springdale, Utah, will be featured speakers.

For more information or to register, call Donald Eno at 834-7835 or (888) 879-8635. Registration is preferred, but not required.