Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium

Abstract

The Eighth World Wilderness Congress met in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2005. The symposium on science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values was the largest of multiple symposia held in conjunction with the Congress. The papers contained in this proceedings were generated at this symposium, submitted by the author or authors for consideration for inclusion in this proceedings, and have been organized into nine major topics: (1) Alaska: past, present and future; (2) connections between wilderness and communities; (3) values to local and distant societies of wilderness protection; (4) establishing priorities and developing policies for wilderness protection; (5) wilderness stewardship challenges in a changing world; (6) encouraging stewardship through education; (7) place and spirit: commitment to wilderness; (8) protecting ecological integrity of wilderness; and (9) wilderness, water, and wisdom.

Titles contained within Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium

• Wilderness insights From Alaska: Past, present, and future
• A history of Alaska wilderness
• The virtues of localism and arctic wilderness politics
• A GIS-based method to evaluate undeveloped BLM lands in Alaska
• Subsistence, tourism, and research: Layers of meaning in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
• Economics of wild salmon ecosystems: Bristol Bay, Alaska
• Traditional ecological knowledge: Applying principles of sustainability to wilderness resource management
• People and watersheds: The case of the totem fish of the North Pacific
• Wild cemeteries?
• Community involvement in planning and management for outdoor recreation in New Zealand protected areas
• Two countries, one forest: Working beyond political boundaries in the Northern Appalachian/Acadian Forest
• Community conservation adjacent to Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
• The Heritage Park model: A partnership approach to park expansion in poor rural areas
• Making connections beyond the choir
• Creating institutions of care: The case for democratic forest trusts
• Friends of the Inyo: Eastern Sierra Wilderness Stewardship Project
• Socio-ecosystems and urban habitats
• Citizen monitoring and restoration: Volunteers and community involvement in wilderness stewardship
• Balancing conservation management and tourism development with wilderness stewardship in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
• Wild mountains, wild rivers: Keeping the sacred origins
• Economic value of ecosystem conservation in Japan: Reduction of starting point bias by bid effect function
• Wilderness values: Perspectives from non-economic social science
• Between wilderness and the middle landscape: A rocky road
• Wilderness discount on livestock compensation costs for imperiled gray wolf Canis lupus
• Arctic and wilderness travel-hosts and guests: The territory of Nunavut, Canada
• Managing recreational experiences in Arctic National Parks: A process for identifying indicators
• Advocating for Antarctic wilderness: Short-term visits and human values
• Studying boat-based bear viewing: Methodological challenges and solutions
• Tourism in rural Alaska
• Special offer-7 days fly and drive Antarctica: The role of wilderness protection in deciding whether (semi) permanent tourist facilities in Antarctica should be prohibited
• Land claims as a mechanism for wilderness protection in the Canadian Arctic
• Prospects for natural world heritage sites in the Northwest Pacific Region
• Wilderness and the paradox of individual freedom
• NatureLinks: Protected areas, wilderness, and landscape connectivity in South Australia, Australia
• Conservation planning in a tropical wilderness: Opportunities and threats in the Guianan Ecoregion Complex
• A proposal for a Pamir International Peace Park
• Action toward wilderness protection in Australia
• Tanzania wilderness areas
• Transboundary protected area proposals along the Southern Andes of Chile and Argentina: Status of current efforts
• Some biodiversity points and suggestions for the Myanmar Protected Area System
• Transboundary natural area protection: Broadening the definition of national security
• Challenges of nature conservation in postsocialist Bulgaria: A view from the Rhodope Mountains
• Rewilding in England and Wales: A review of recent developments, issues, and concerns
• Designating wilderness areas: A framework for examining lessons from the States
• Identifying core habitat and connectivity for focal species in the interior cedar-hemlock forest of North America to complete a conservation area design
• Developing additional capacity for wilderness management: An international exchange program between South Africa and United States wilderness rangers
• Managing consumptive and nonconsumptive use in the United States largest wilderness
• Expansion of the wilderness values scale with three sub-scales: Personal maintenance, expression and learning, and societal maintenance
• Commander islands as the significant point for monitoring some dangerous changes in the Beringia ecosystem
• Use of stock to maintain and construct trails in the eastern United States
• Identifying threats, values, and attributes in Brazilian wilderness areas
• A look inside the dynamics of trust: A guide for managers
• Wilderness stewardship challenges in the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site
• Inter-observer agreement of a multi-parameter campsite monitoring program on the Dixie National Forest, Utah
• Protecting the protectors of wilderness
• Using the minimum requirement concept to manage research in the Yosemite Wilderness
• Measurement of water quality of high-altitude wilderness streams: Cloud Peak Wilderness, Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming
• Shrinking wild lands: Assessing human intrusion in the Highlands of Scotland, 1870 to 2004, using Geographical Information Systems
• Wilderness recreation participation: Projections for the next half century
• Visitors' experience and lack of knowledge of minimum impact techniques in the highlands of Brazil's Itatiaia National Park
• Tracking progress: Applying the Forest Service 10 Year Wilderness Stewardship Challenge as a model of performance management
• Wilderness education: The ultimate commitment to quality wilderness stewardship
• Nature is the home of culture-friluftsliv is a way home
• Restoring youth: Restoring relationships to wildlife and wild places
• Paddling the Big Sky: Reflections on place-based education and experience
• Comparing the wilderness message of U.S. land management agencies
• Outdoor programs and environmental beliefs: Investigating the stability of outcomes and levels of salience
• Historic voyage as a catalyst for inspiring change
• Spiritual revelation in wilderness under down-under
• Crossing the divide
• The "wilderness knot"
• White lions: Reintroduction to their natural and spiritual homelands
• Is this a one-night stand or the start of something meaningful? Developing relationships to place in National Park backcountry.
• Defining values in place: A practical application for visitor management in protected areas
• Relationships to place in wildland resources management: Developing an effective research approach
• Psychophysiological responses and restorative values of wilderness environments
• Toda relationship with nature as an indication of ecosystem health
• Living in interesting times: Selected implications of landscape ecology for conservation science
• Managing for ecological integrity in protected wildlands: Key management challenges and research priorities in British Columbia
• Ecological restoration of degraded wilderness ecosystems: Removing exotic plants and introducing prescribed fire to restore natural diversity in two National Park wilderness areas
• Wilderness and wild lands in the Northern Appalachian Region of North America: An ecological perspective
• Protecting biodiversity in situ in the Amazonian Region of Brazil
• Some practical considerations in restoration of wilderness geodiversity: Insights from Lake Pedder, Tasmania
• Wilderness restoration: Bureau of Land Management and the Student Conservation Association in the California Desert District
• Salmon theology: Return to traditional reasoning
• Wilderness, water, and quality of life in the Bitterroot Valley
• Are wildland watersheds safest and best?
• Field testing existence values for riparian ecosystems
• Three Rivers: Protecting the Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness
• Use of Clostridium perfringens as a fecal indicator to detect intertidal disposal at backcountry marine campsites in Prince William Sound, Alaska
• How the National Marine Sanctuaries Act diverged from the Wilderness Act model and lost its way in the land of multiple use
• Leatherback sea turtle stewardship to attain local, regional, and global marine conservation and management

Citation

Watson, Alan; Sproull, Janet; Dean, Liese. 2007. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium. Proceedings RMRS-P-49. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 581 p.