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World Wilderness Congress (WILD12) Call for Abstracts
Submit an abstract to the symposium team for the Global Gathering on Knowledge, Wisdom, and Ways of Knowing, which aims to bring together people to discuss wilderness stewardship issues from around the globe. Proposals that pertain to the safeguarding, stewardship, and celebration of Earth and its wilderness—our wild home—are encouraged. The deadline is March 15, 2024.
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Wilderness 60
In 2024, the United States is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Explore here for communications materials, interpretation, and events that look toward the future of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Can We Make Wilderness More Welcoming?
A committee of individuals from systemically excluded groups published a peer-reviewed assessment of barriers to inclusion in wilderness communications. Understanding different interpretations of wilderness can help broaden traditional narratives to respectfully include diverse experiences.
Practitioners in wilderness stewardship include federal land management agency staff, non-profit advocacy organization employees, environmental educators, students, congressional representatives and other legislators, reporters and members of the media, scientists and researchers, and wilderness volunteers. The resources provided on this website are designed to help different professional audiences access real-time information to further their wilderness stewardship and protection work.
About Us
Wilderness.net is a website formed in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation's Wilderness Institute at The University of Montana, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute. The latter two partners are the wilderness training and research arms of the Federal government, respectively.
The program's day-to-day activities are overseen by a working group and steering committee with additional oversight provided by the federal interagency National Wilderness Steering Committee and Wilderness Policy Council. The website now educates over 500,000 visitors each year about wilderness and the value of public lands preservation.
In 2017 Wilderness.net became Wilderness Connect in an effort to bring all of the program's communications tool — website, community of practice, e-newsletter, social media channels — under a singular brand.
