Fish & Wildlife Service Agency Resources
Regulations
Resources
General
- FWS Know Your Mission -The Wilderness Act of 1964 Micro-Learning Video
- USFWS Refuge Wilderness Homepage
- National Wildlife Refuges That Contain Designated Wilderness
- Refuges with Proposed Wilderness: 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
- Survey Protocol Framework for Monitoring Wilderness Character on the National Wildlife Refuges
- The WCM Database: A Guide for Data Entry Users
Articles and Sessions
- International Journal of Wilderness
- Spring 2024 FWS News (fws.gov)
- 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.
- Refuge System Wilderness Heroes
- NCTC’s Conservation Connect episode highlighting wilderness
News and Media
Contacts
Michelle Reilly, USFWS Representative at the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
Nick Kaczor, NWRS National Wilderness Coordinator