Landscape to Techscape: Metamorphosis along the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) spans 2,660 miles (4,281 km) from its southern terminus on the Mexican border to its northern terminus on the Canadian border.
Fifteen Years of Change: Campsites in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) is a 92-mile-long (148 km) ribbon of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams located in northern Maine. Starting with a chain of lakes controlled by dams, the river drops northward in the heart of Maine’s vast commercial forests.
Managing Unconfined Recreation in Wilderness
Once a US wilderness is congressionally designated, land management agencies must manage it to preserve its wilderness character. Wilderness character is defined by five qualities: untrammeled, natural, undeveloped, solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation, and other features of value
Introducing the Visitor Use Management Framework
During the past three decades, US federal land management agencies have worked to enhance the public’s connection with the outdoors for purposes of recreation…
Wilderness in a Time of….?
I considered finishing the title of this editorial in a number of ways. Wilderness in a time of polarizing politics? …in a time of climate change? … in a time of rhetoric and conflict? Any one of these examples might illustrate the socio- and geopolitical climate that many of us as wilderness professionals, managers, educators, and advocates are currently experiencing.
