Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Ninth World Wilderness Congress symposium; November 6-13, 2009; Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Abstract

The Ninth World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) met in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico in 2009. 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 or submitted by the author or authors for consideration for inclusion in this proceedings, and have been organized into six major topics: (1) empowering young people, (2) promoting involvement of local communities, (3) enhancing transboundary conservation goals, (4) exploring wilderness meanings, (5) monitoring and predicting change, and (6) new directions in wilderness stewardship. Included are papers that address wildland issues in Afghanistan, Antarctica, Canada, Czech Republic, El Salvador, the Gambia, Germany, Honduras, India, Lesotho, Mexico, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and the United States.

Titles contained within Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Ninth World Wilderness Congress symposium; November 6-13, 2009; Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

• The promise of youth service as a global conservation tool
• The design and implementation of a conservation corps program in Nuristan, Afghanistan
• The U.S. Forest Service Job Corps 28 Civilian Conservation Centers
• Indigenous ecotourism in preserving and empowering Mayan natural and cultural values at Palenque, Mexico
• From dominance to detente in the face of climate change: Agreements beyond boundaries with indigenous nations
• Human-wildlife donflict and its implication for conservation around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Understanding and building wilderness management partnerships with indigenous peoples and communities
• Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Park joint management: Sehlabathebe National Park (Lesotho) and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site (South Africa)
• The climate adaptation programs and activities of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
• "Europe's wild heart" - new transboundary wilderness in the middle of the Old Continent
• Shared wilderness, shared responsibility, shared vision: Protecting migratory wildlife
• String of turquoise: The future of Sacred Mountain Peaks in the southwest U.S.
• The socio-cultural value of New Zealand wilderness
• El Toro Wilderness, Luqillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
• Public perception of the Antarctic Wilderness: Surveys from an educated, environmentally knowledgeable European community
• Wilderness - between the promise of hell and paradise: A cultural-historical exploration of a Dutch National Park
• Roles of and threats to Yoruba traditional beliefs in wilderness conservation in southwest Nigeria
• Threats and changes affecting human relationships with wilderness: Implications for management
• Human relationships to fire prone ecosystems: Mapping values at risk on contested landscapes
• Understanding the transformative aspects of the Wilderness and Protected Lands experience upon human health
• Challenges in protecting the wilderness of Antarctica
• Climate change and ecosystem services: The contribution of and impacts on federal public lands in the United States
• How do you know things are getting better (or not?) Assessing resource conditions in National Parks and Protected Areas
• Monitoring recreational impacts in wilderness of Kamchatka (on example of Kronotsky State Natural Biosphere Preserve)
• Protection of the wilderness and aesthetic values of Antarctica: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a tool
• The National Landscape Conservation System: A model for long term conservation of significant landscapes
• The verification of wilderness area boundaries as part of a buffer zone demarcation process: A case study from the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site
• Protecting marine parks and sanctuaries from aquatic nuisance species releases from ballast during emergency response events
• Planning for people? An evaluation of objectives for managing visitors at wildlife refuges in the United States
• Wilderness: An unexpected second chance
• Examining visitors' behavioral intentions and behaviors in a Taiwan National Park
• Natural and near natural tropical forest values

Citation

Watson, Alan; Murrieta-Saldivar, Joaquin; McBride, Brooke, comps. 2011. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Ninth World Wilderness Congress symposium; November 6-13, 2009; Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Proceedings RMRS-P-64. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 225 p.