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The George Wright Society champions stewardship of parks, protected & conserved areas, cultural sites, and other kinds of place-based conservation by connecting people, places, knowledge, and ideas. By uniting people from many different backgrounds around a common passion for protecting Earth’s natural and cultural heritage, we create the collaboration needed to meet today’s greatest conservation challenges.

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INNOVATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES FOR
Parks • Cultural Sites
Protected / Conserved Areas


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University of Montana, Missoula  •  October 20–23, 2025

Plan to join us as we launch a new series of annual workshops exploring the latest in place-based conservation!

Registration now open — register early and save!

Program ready to view — still accepting proposals for Posters

GWS ParkForum 2025 1-min Intro

GWS ParkForum 2025 1-min Intro

The first-ever biography of our namesake — the visionary who revolutionized management of America‘s national parks

“Emory’s enumeration of Wright’s accomplishments—including a survey of wildlife in Western parks, the first of its kind—is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Highly recommended for nature lovers and park enthusiasts.” LIBRARY JOURNAL

Watch our virtual chat
with author Jerry Emory!
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Parkwire,  GWS’s daily global digest

of park news  •  Follow on FB

Latest top headlines  •  14 July 2025

The website National Parks Traveler has more details on the Grand Canyon fire and the calls for an investigation. https://buff.ly/ZI8Ntbi

Arizona's governor is calling for an investigation into how USNPS is managing a wildfire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge and many other facilities on the North Rim of Grand Canyon NP. https://buff.ly/vU5rqIB

A wildfire is devastating the North Rim at Grand Canyon NP (the less-visited side). The historic Grand Canyon Inn and dozens of other buildings and visitor facilities have been destroyed. https://buff.ly/otR3DCt

Authorities in Australia have halted a translocation project after 7 of 13 koalas moved to a NP in New South Wales died. https://buff.ly/H5XY1vJied.

A House draft budget bill for FY26 would cut USNPS far less than Trump's proposed budget, but is still full of provisions that are alarming to defenders of parks and other public lands/waters. https://buff.ly/Td2vqBt

Nearly 300 live colonies of a species of coral thought to have gone extinct have been found in Galápagos NP in Ecuador. https://buff.ly/n4h4gyM

Large cuts to USNPS's Inventory & Monitoring Program, rumored for months, haven't happened yet. But the chaos of this year is already deeply damaging this key program. https://buff.ly/wRuzuVZ

Most of the US's national heritage areas have not received any federal funding this fiscal year, leaving them to stare down the possibility of coffers running dry soon. https://buff.ly/wAmOvTg

Pine martens reintroduced to Dartmoor NP have had kits—the first time the species has reproduced in southwest England in over a century. https://buff.ly/TusjRXu

In a press release, NP advocacy groups issued a dire warning about the viability of the National Park Service after the Supreme Court ruled Trump could proceed with plans for mass firings even while lawsuits challenging their legality are pending. https://buff.ly/zXIMayW

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Trump to go ahead with mass firings, known as RIFs (reductions in force) at federal agencies. The consequences could be devastating for land- and ocean-managing agencies. https://buff.ly/YMHQDiA

In a response to Trump's "tattletale" signs in NPs, a group is asking visitor to take photos of park signs and upload them to an archive in case they are adversely edited. https://buff.ly/aUGAdTw

Trump ordered Burgum to increase NP entrance fees for foreign visitors. https://buff.ly/hM2hTLk

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