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About Us: Wilderness.net is an Internet-based tool connecting the natural resource workforce, scientists, educators, and the public to their wilderness heritage through ready access to wilderness information. Through Wilderness.net and its partners, you'll find access to general information about wilderness, stewardship and educational resources, scientific information, agency policies, relevant legislation, communication tools to connect you with others in the wilderness community and more. More >>
The WildeBeat: The audio journal about getting into wilderness
Gifford Pinchot America's first professionally trained forester, Pinchot was named chief of the Division of Forestry, later the Forest Service, in 1897. Pinchot was a friend and confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt and, under Pinchot, the Forest Service added millions of acres to the national forests, controlled their use, and regulated their harvest. Pinchot and Roosevelt are often credited with bestowing the name "conservation" to the movement for the preservation and stewardship of natural resources.
The Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center is offering a Regional Wilderness Stewardship Training in the Jackson, NH, September 15-18, 2008. Replies are due by July 21, 2008. >>
Outcomes from the Global Wilderness Seminar for Government Agencies, a pre-8th World Wilderness Congress session that occurred September 28 and 29, 2005, in Anchorage, Alaska, are online. >>
Documentary film "American Values: American Wilderness" available for purchase online. >>
National Wilderness Preservation System displays available for event reservation. >>
Climate Change: Moving from Science to Solutions
