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WILD Foundation announces Wild 12, the 12th World Wilderness Congress, and calls for participation.
WILD.org and Wilderness Foundation Global issued a formal announcement of the 12th World Wilderness Congress (WILD12), which will be hosted by The Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council in He Sápa, the Black Hills, from Sunday, August 25th to Saturday, August 31st, 2024. The organizers are inviting participants to submit ideas before November 24, 2023, for key themes for the Global Gathering on...
Redmore participates in panel at the Montana Outdoor Recreation Summit, in Butte, Montana
ALWRI social scientist, Lauren Redmore participated as a panelist in the Montana Outdoor Recreation Summit, in Butte, MT, October 11-13. The summit, co-hosted by the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR), and Montana Access Project, brought together around 300 representatives from government agencies, nonprofit groups, land managers, researchers, and...
Hiking Needs New Rules. ALWRI Research Biologist, Kathy Zeller, interviewed by Atlantic
ALWRI research biologist Kathy Zeller was recently interviewed by writer Christine Peterson for an article in the Atlantic magazine which discusses the impacts of human recreation on wildlife behavior and persistence. Peterson, citing an earlier study, writes, "Almost 60 percent of wildlife interactions with outdoor recreation are negative... animals become more vigilant, move somewhere else,...
