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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 2, Issue 1, 1982
Winter 1982
Articles
The Long Haul: An Editorial
The articles published in the new journal so far have hinted at the moral responsibility that human dominance of the Earth carries with it.
Glacier National Park: An Island in a Sea of Development: A Guest Editorial
Writing from a patrol cabin in the backcountry of Glacier National Park, the director of the University of Montana biological station reflects on development around the park, especially a proposed mine.
The Park Library: Rare Materials and Easy Marks
An overview of the sometimes underappreciated value of the libraries found in national park administrative offices.
The Conservation of Agricultural Land Resources: The Role of the American Farmland Trust
A case for treating the preservation of farmland as akin to other "resource lands" that traditionally focus on wildlife habitat and ecosystem diversity.
The Relevance of Carrying Capacity: To National Parks and the World
The planet and the parks are in like ways suffering from similar overwhelming forces which threaten their very survival. Carrying capacities must be identified for both.
Domestic Tranquility and the National Park System: A Context for Human Ecology
An analysis of how language from the Declaration of Independence applies to the US national parlks.
Evaluation of New Areas for the National Park System: The Great Basin Study
A report on a study of the Great Basin phsyiographic region and its potential for new national park units.
Conferences: Science is Stirring!
A short notice of three upcoming park-related science conferences: in Hawaii, Montana, and California.
Pseudoergocytes
The "atrophy of curiosity" is damaging park interpretation.
Notes
Miscellaneous notes on news items of interest and GWS activities .
Sigurd F. Olson, 1899-1982
A short obituary of the conservationist.
New Members
A list of newly joined George Wright Society members.
Authors and Illustrations
Credits for this issue.