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

Wilderness greenery (Credit: Mark Knoke)

Great Sand Dunes Wilderness (Credit: Steve Arnold)

Participants in a yearly Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center's training gain valuable stewardship knowledge

Bear hair snags in Glacier National Park's proposed wilderness (Credit: USGS)

Eagle Cap Wilderness (Credit: David Graham)

Some areas require food to be stored in bear-proof canisters, like this one manufactured by Bear Vault (Credit: Manny Aalsma)

A grizzly bear feasts on salmon in the Katmai Wilderness (Credit: Raphael Bick)

January, 2013

FEATURE OF THE MONTH

Wilderness Webinars
Short, free, interactive webinars are a great way to get educated about current wilderness stewardship issues. The new wilderness webinar listing provides information and registration for upcoming webinars and links to recordings of past series. Upcoming webinars include: Wilderness in the Courts, The 5th Quality of Wilderness Character, and Minimum Requirements Analysis.

PARTNERS

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.