Social and institutional influences on wilderness fire stewardship

Abstract

One of the priority research areas at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute addresses the “need for improved information to guide the stewardship of fire as a natural process in wilderness while protecting social and ecological values inside and outside wilderness.” This research topic area was developed with the knowledge that wildland fire, as a natural disturbance process, can preserve ecological conditions inside and outside wilderness ecosystems and, at the same time, influence societal values across the interface between wilderness and nonwilderness lands.

Citation

Knotek, Katie. 2005. Social and institutional influences on wilderness fire stewardship. International Journal of Wilderness. 11(3): 30, 12.