In the United States, legislation dictates that wilderness areas should be managed to, among other things, provide recreational visitors with opportunities for solitude. The growing popularity of outdoor recreation in backcountry settings presents managers with challenges in their efforts to achieve this objective. Recent research suggests that computer-based simulation modeling is an effective...

Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Scope of Practice Document v 12/17/12 pg 1 of 9 Introduction People who live, work, travel and recreate in the outdoors have specialized medical training needs not met by traditional first aid programs. They care for patients in remote locations, in challenging weather, with questionable communication and support, limited equipment and the need to make independent dec...

Armed conflicts and major political changes can result in the forced displacement of thousands people may have substantial effects on environment. However, it is difficult to predict mitigate long-term consequences such displacements, especially when they trigger abrupt land-use that a regime shift system. Our main goal was determine post-WWII displacements landscape dynamics Polish Carpathians...

This study evaluates the effect of emission reductions at two coal-fired power plants in northwestern Colorado on a nearby wilderness area. Control equipment was installed at both plants during 1999-2004 to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions. One challenge was separating the effects of local from regional emissions, which also declined during the study period. The long-term datasets examined confirm ...

This qualitative study explores the aspects of a residential wilderness experience that informed self-evaluations in male adolescents, ages 12-16. To assess change in self-evaluations and program factors associated with change, qualitative interviews were conducted with adolescents upon entry to the program and four months later. Participants' responses suggested that self-evaluation improved i...

We assessed the relative importance of wilderness to gray wolf (Canis lupus) population dynamics over 50 years in a that 1) was long extant (i.e., not reintroduced or recolonized), 2) subject harvest our study area until recently, and 3) used both adjacent, mainly public, non-wilderness. analyzed survival radiocollared wolves (n = 756 collared-wolf tenures) during 1968–2018 Superior National Fo...

Abstract What is the relevance of concept wilderness today? For some, recognition a troubled history regarding people color does not challenge its pertinence in facing ecological crisis. However, author contends that problematic because inability to recognize other conceptualizations Earth held by Indigenous and Black peoples Americas Caribbean. As case point, critically engages with failed att...

Multiple casualty incidents (MCIs) are uncommon in remote wilderness settings. This is a case report of a lightning strike on a Boy Scout troop hiking through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI), in which the lightning storm hindered rescue efforts. The purpose of this study was to review the response to a lightning-caused MCI in a wilderness setting, address lightning injury as it r...

Green corridors are an attempt to mitigate negative effects of the built environment of cities and towns. The corridors act as conservation for rapidly extreme intervention and development of the urban environment. Most importantly, it enables dispersal movement of animals within city areas. Issues relate to wildlife conservation in urban areas has been studied for many years and thus, the rese...