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Training

The WILD Foundation has long had a focus on compiling the latest information on wilderness management, and on training wilderness managers in the field. With respect to wilderness management:
  • WILD and partner Fulcrum Books publish the Wilderness Management textbook, edited by John Hendee and Chad Dawson. This book, now in its third edition, has become the standard reference on wilderness management around the world.
  • The International Journal of Wilderness regularly features articles by wilderness managers providing information on lessons learned in the field
  • The World Wilderness Congresses always focus on management issues, from the site level to large-scale conservation corridors, to global changes affecting wilderness protected areas.
WILD also providing training to wilderness managers:
  • WILD has facilitated training exchanges between South African and American managers for many years.
  • At the 7th WWC, WILD and the Sierra Club sponsored a wilderness management training session attended by managers from 7 African countries.
  • The 8th WWC featured a university-accredited wilderness management training by the Wilderness Action Group (WAG), South Africa and the University of Montana, involving 50 NGO representatives and other conservation professionals.
  • The 8th WWC featured a training session hosted by the U.S. Government’s interagency Wilderness Policy Council designed for government land managers from around the world, which was attended by 200 wilderness managers from 17 countries and established an international network of government wildland stewards.
  • The 8th WWC also featured a workshop organized by WILD with the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, The Wild Salmon Center, the Kamchatka League of Independent Experts, the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute and others to create partnerships between U.S. and Russian wilderness experts for more effective management of Kamchatka’s protected areas.
  • WILD and the Zambezi Society sponsored a 10-day wilderness management training course in 2006 by the Wilderness Action Group in Zimbabwe for 20 senior wilderness managers from Zimbabwe and Zambia.

 
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