Northern Alaska is home to the largest designated wilderness landscape in United States and among world’s remaining roadless regions. Under 1980 National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Industrial Development Export Authority, a semi-public corporation of state Alaska, proposed an industrial road access Ambler Mining District that would run approximately 320 km along southern edge western Broo...

Like conservation-induced displacement, human-wildlife conlict (HWC) has potentially negative implications for communities in and around protected areas. While the ways in which displacement emerges from the creation of ‘wilderness’ conservation landscapes are well documented, how the production of ‘wilderness’ articulates with intensiications in HWC remains under examined both empirically and ...

One topic of increasing interest to conservationists is to assess the human value of ecosystems, from the provision of food and water to recreation, carbon storage and supporting biodiversity, to better understand their importance. But biodiversity and other ecosystem services are increasingly threatened by human activities. The hope among conservation biologists and policy makers is that futur...

Within a healthcare system, operational emergency medical services (EMS) programs provide prehospital emergency care to patients in austere and resource-limited settings. Some of these programs are additionally considered to be wilderness EMS programs, a specialized type of operational EMS program, as they primarily function in a wilderness setting (eg, wilderness search and rescue, ski patrols...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the causes and characteristics of pediatric recreational wilderness deaths. METHODS All deaths of children between 12 months and 20 years of age involving a wilderness recreational activity in 5 western Washington counties between 1987 and 1996 were identified by medical examiners' logs. Univariate analysis was used to examine variables such as age, gender, activi...

We describe regional patterns of variation in dead wood across 20 million ha of upland forests of all ownerships in Oregon and Washington, based on an analysis of data on snags and down wood collected on over 16,000 field plots. Current patterns of dead wood are highly variable and complex. The strongest differences were among nine habitats that reflect strong regional gradients in physical env...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a public health problem in Brazil. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of DM and its relation with socio-demographic features and other cardiovascular risk factors in a adult population from the wilderness of Pernambuco, Brazil. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In 2008/2009 a cross-sectional study in the adult urban population of Canãa distri...

_________________________________________________ This report compiles information about recent progress in the application of computer simulation modeling to planning and management of recreation use, particularly in parks and wilderness. Early modeling efforts are described in a chapter that provides an historical perspective. Another chapter provides an overview of modeling options, common d...

A move by the US government to preserve more public lands as wilderness has been welcomed by environmentalists but has angered ranchers, sportsmen and energy companies that fear access to land will be reduced. The new policy, initiated at the end of last year, directs the Bureau of Land Management to survey its vast holdings from Alaska to Arizona in search of unspoilt wildlife areas. The agenc...