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ALWRI welcomes new director
Jason Taylor, Superintendent at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, in Skagway, Alaska, has been selected as Director for the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, in Missoula, Montana.
As Superintendent for the most visited national park unit in Alaska, Jason successfully stewarded an international protected area while introducing thousands of...
Land use changes in areas surrounding wilderness
In the next half century America’s population will grow by 50 percent, and so too will the demand for food, feed, water, fiber and energy development. Urbanization will lead to more roads, more pollution, and more noise. In order to protect wilderness areas it is important that we identify where land use change will have the greatest impacts and define what those impacts are, such as...
Alan Watson retires after 35 years of federal service
ALWRI’s Senior Research Social Scientist quietly packed up his gear on Friday April 24, 2020 and left camp. Alan Watson was an active wilderness researcher with the Forest Service for several years before ALWRI was officially founded in 1993. Alan’s title as Social Scientist belies the breadth of his wilderness science career, which is better described as a transdisciplinary scientist. He had...
