Fish & Wildlife Service Agency Resources
Law
Policy
- Fish and Wildlife Service Wilderness Policy
- Fish and Wildlife Service Wilderness Designation Process
Wilderness Management Topics
Fundamentals of Wilderness Management
Training
- Classroom
- Online
- Webinars
- Technical Core Competencies
- Informational Videos
- FWS Know Your Mission -The Wilderness Act of 1964 Micro-Learning Video
- 2022 National Wilderness Skills Institute Session by Michelle Reilly, USFWS Wilderness Liaison
- "The Women in Our Wilderness History" presentation Timestamp 1:10 - 34:14
- "Through the (Historical) Looking Glass: Backward-Looking Criticism vs Forward-thinking Interpretation" Timestamp 34:15-1:17:42.
- Wilderness Character
Wilderness Information and Resources
- USFWS Refuge Wilderness Homepage
- Designated Wilderness: An area designated in legislation and administered as part of the NWPS and in accordance with the Wilderness Act.
- Proposed Wildernesses: An area of the Refuge System that the Secretary of the Interior has recommended to the President for inclusion in the NWPS. Proposed wilderness is managed as designated wilderness.
- FWS Wilderness Boundary Map Data
- Annual Report of Lands Under Control of the USFWS (See table 8 for designated Wilderness)
- ServCat (searchable for CCP’s, MRA’s, WSP’s, and WCM Reports)
- Leader’s Intent for the NWRS Wilderness Stewardship Program
Wilderness Character Monitoring
- Survey Protocol Framework for Monitoring Wilderness Character on the National Wildlife Refuges
- The WCM Database: A Guide for Data Entry Users
- “Keeping it Wild 2”
Agency Contacts
- Michelle Reilly - USFWS Representative; Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
- Regional Wilderness Coordinators contact list
- Currently Vacant - NWRS National Wilderness Coordinator
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
- Designated Wilderness Map
- Refuge System Wilderness Heroes
- NCTC’s Conservation Connect episode highlighting Wilderness