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...

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...

Wilderness areas, defined as areas free of industrial scale activities and other human pressures which result in significant biophysical disturbance, are important for biodiversity conservation and sustaining the key ecological processes underpinning planetary life-support systems. Despite their importance, wilderness areas are being rapidly eroded in extent and fragmented. Here we present the ...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to explore the success rate and the complication rate for shoulder reduction attempts by non-medical personnel in the wilderness setting, and to compare the average time to reduction for those done on scene versus those that waited for reduction at a medical facility. METHODS In this study we solicited online survey responses from users of wildernes...

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...