About
From 1981 through 2018, the George Wright Society published The George Wright Forum, an interdisciplinary journal that explored innovative thinking and offered enduring perspectives on critical issues across the whole spectrum of place-based heritage management and stewardship. The George Wright Forum published insights from virtually every field in cultural and natural resources related to parks, protected areas, and cultural sites.
Beginning in 2020, that same editorial vision is carried on in a successor journal, Parks Stewardship Forum, co-published by the UC Berkeley Institute for People, Parks, and Biodiversity and the George Wright Society.
Volume 1, Issue 1, 1981
Summer 1981
The inaugural (Summer 1981) issue of The George Wright Forum, the George Wright Society Journal of Parks, Protected Areas & Cultural Sites.
Articles
Editorial
The editor's introduction to the newly created GWS.
George M. Wright, 1904–1936
A short biography of the namesake of the George Wright Society, written by one of his colleagues.
Are the national parks in peril?
A call for more and better natural science and cultural resource research and management in US national parks.
Notes on two important conferences
A notification of the upcoming U.S. Strategy Conference on Biological Diversity, and the International Symposium and Workshop on the Application of Genetics to the Management of Wild Plant and Animal Populations.
Notes on GWS activities
Notes on current GWS activities, plus two short obituaries.
Charter Members
A list of Charter Members of the George Wright Society.
The membership—a status report
An update on membership development in the newly created organization.