Connecting federal employees, scientists, educators, and the public with their wilderness heritage

Map skills, like those taught during a Bay Area Wilderness Training course, are essential in the wilderness.

Bell Mountain Wilderness (Credit: Jason Connor)

Brigantine Wilderness, American oystercatcher Credit: Nick Kontonicolas)

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (Credit: Tom Kaffine)

Bob Marshall Wilderness (Credit: Mike Shimer)

December 2016

Youth Engage in Wilderness Science

Through Friends of Saguaro National Park's Park Steward Program, students from Arizona College Prep Academy join scientists in gathering ecological and social science data in the Saguaro Wilderness.

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Wilderness.net is a public wilderness information website formed in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute--the federal government's wilderness training and research arms, respectively--and the College of Forestry and Conservation's Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana.