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Multimedia Collections

Click on the one of the collections below to listen to individual items or search for a particular item. Learn about the different listening formats available. Want to add your YouTube or other video to our listing?

• Audio
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2002
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2003
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2004
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2005
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2006
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2007
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2008
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2009
  • Wilderness Issues Lecture Series: Spring 2011
  • Zahniser, Howard: 1961 rehearsing of "Wilderness Forever" speech. Part 1, 2, 3
• Podcasts
  • The WildeBeat Podcast
• Videos
  • American Values: American Wilderness
    • Order Full Length Film
    • Watch 20-minute Version on YouTube. Part 1, 2, 3
  • America's Wilderness: A 3-minute introduction
  • Deciding to Keep Wilderness Wild: Four Cornerstones for Wilderness Management
    • Manage wilderness as a whole
    • Preserve wildness and natural conditions
    • Protect wilderness benefits
    • Provide and use the minimum necessary
  • Desert Sands: Death Valley
  • Forever Wild: Celebrating America's Wilderness
    • Watch Trailer on YouTube
    • Order Full Length Film
  • National Landscape Conservation System "Ask The Experts" Episode 1: Wilderness
  • Wilderness Rangers: Keeping It Wild

Media Players

For some collections, streaming audio or video is provided. Downloadable audio files are available in either Windows Media Audio or MP3 file formats (sometimes both). WMA audio files are generally smaller in size, approximately 2-3 MB, while MP3 files are larger, approximately 8-13 MB. MP3 file for the 2009 Wilderness Issues Lecture Series, however, are approximately 40 MB each.

To listen to MP3 files on your iPod or other MP3 player, download the file and sync your device according to the device's directions. To listen to MP3 files on your computer, you can use iTunes or a variety of other media player software. If you don't have media player software, compare different media players before choosing. To listen to WMA files on your computer, you must have Windows Media Player (Version 7.1 or later), or another player capable of playing Windows Media files.