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Volume 28
Number 3
Winter 2011-2012
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On The Cover

Special Issue: Wilderness Stewardship and Science

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By Wade M. Vagias, Ingrid E. Schneider, and Jeff Selleck

Cascade Pass in the Stephen Mather Wilderness, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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A Wilderness Celebration
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Interview
NPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis A conversation with NPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis
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By Wade M. Vagias
Invited Features
Invited feature Fires in wilderness in the national parks
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By Jan W. van Wagtendonk
Flathead River, British Columbia. Transboundary cooperation to achieve wilderness protection and large landscape conservation
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By Harvey Locke
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Johns Canyon, Grand Gulch Wilderness, Utah. Integrating cultural resources and wilderness character
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By Jill Cowley, Peter Landres, Melissa Memory, Doug Scott, and Adrienne Lindholm
Invited feature Climate change: Wilderness’s greatest challenge
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By Nathan L. Stephenson and Constance I. Millar
Foxtail pine snag, Sequoia National Park, California. Climate change threatens wilderness integrity
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By David Graber
In Focus: Wilderness Character
Landscape in southern Death Valley National Park, California. Using wilderness character to improve wilderness stewardship
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By Peter Landres, Wade M. Vagias, and Suzy Stutzman
Otis PikeFire Island High Dune Wilderness, Fire Island National Seashore, New York. Using the “Keeping It Wild” framework to develop a wilderness character monitoring protocol for the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
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 By Lindsay Ries, Jason Flynn, and Jordan Raphael
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado. Lessons learned: Merging process elements to address wilderness character and user capacity
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By Ryan Sharp, Kerri Cahill, and Julie Sharp
Diagram showing hierarchical structure of the wilderness character database. A database application for wilderness character monitoring
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By Ashley Adams, Peter Landres, and Simon Kingston
Contributed Articles
Researcher Logan Park assesses a trail in Acadia National Park, Maine. The science of trail surveys
Recreation ecology provides new tools for managing wilderness trails
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By Jeffrey L. Marion, Jeremy F. Wimpey, and Logan O. Park
Trail in the Shenandoah Wilderness, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Wilderness visitor experiences
A selective review of 50 years of research
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By David N. Cole
Wildlife biologists observe harbor seals from a distance in designated wilderness on the Alaska coast. Scientific study and enduring wilderness
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By Kevin Hood
Map showing difference in fire return interval departure index between actual and modeled landscapes for South Fork of the Merced watershed, Yosemite National Park, California. The hidden consequences of fire suppression
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By Carol Miller
Acoustic monitoring equipment at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. Using acoustical data to manage for solitude in wilderness areas
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By Jessica Briggs, Jessie Rinella, and Lelaina Marin
Map showing campsite suitability and the likelihood of camping impacts. Creating exploratory maps for wilderness impact surveys: Applications in campsite searches
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By E. Tyson Cross, Paul Evangelista, Melinda Laituri, and Peter Newman
Diagram showing relationships among antecedent conditions, setting, recreation, and spiritual outcomes of a wilderness experience. Spiritual outcomes of wilderness experience
A synthesis of recent social science research
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By Paul Heintzman
Tusyan Ruin in Grand Canyon National Park as it appears on a Landsat TM image (30 m pixels, left image) and a QuickBird image (1 m pixels, at right). Remote sensing of heritage resources for research and management
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By Alan P. Sullivan III, Kevin S. Magee, Philip B. Mink II, and Kathleen M. Forste
Pack stock grazing in Lyell Canyon, Yosemite National Park, California. Managing overnight stock use at Yosemite National Park
A science-based approach
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By J. Dan Abbe and Liz Ballenger
Search-and-rescue training at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. Economic impacts of search-and-rescue operations on wilderness management in the national parks
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By Whitney Ward, Logan Park, and Evan Coulson
Conclusion
Commentary Through the looking glass: What value will we see in wilderness in 2064?
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By Jeff Rose and Dan Dustin
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