Back Issues of the George Wright Forum

The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series

George Melendez Wright and the National Park Idea
Dayton Duncan

Traditional Cultural Properties: Putting Concept into Practice
Charles W. Smythe and Frederick F. York, guest editors

The National Register Framework for Protecting Cultural Heritage Places
Charles W. Smythe

Rethinking Traditional Cultural Properties?
Thomas F. King

Traditional Cultural Places and the National Register
Paul R. Lusignan

The Evolution of Federal Agency Authority to Manage Native American Cultural Sites
Sherry Hutt

Indian Point Not for Sale; Or, Reflections on Indian Point
Rosita Worl

Anatomy of a Traditional Cultural Property: The Saga of Auke Cape
Thomas F. Thornton

Quantifying the Consequences of Fire Suppression in Two California National Parks
Carol Miller and Brett Davis

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series
Designing Ocean Parks for the Next Century
Gary E. Davis

Privatizing Isle Royale? The Limits of Free-Market Environmentalism
Robert Pahre

Identifying and Protecting the Interpretive Potential of Setting at Cultural Heritage Sites
Christopher C. Mayer and George N. Wallace

Holding the High Ground: Interpreting the Civil War in National Parks
Robert K. Sutton

Stepping Outside the Boundary: Community-Building at Yosemite National Park
Christopher C. Lever and J. Keith Gilless

Evaluating Potential Wildlife Impacts of Future Land Development Adjacent to Protected Areas
Tony Prato, Anthony S. Clark, and Yan Barnett

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series
Reassessing the National Park Service and the National Park System
Janet A. McDonnell

Celebrating 40 Years of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act: An Evolution of River Protection Strategies
Sue Jennings and Abby Miller, guest editors

Celebrating Forty Years of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Sue Jennings

The Wild and Scenic St. Croix Riverway
Kate Hanson

Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers
Jamie Fosburgh, Joe DiBello, and Fred Akers

2(a)(ii)-Designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers: The Confluence of Local Management and Federal Protection
Lauren Koshere

Commercial Grizzly Bear Viewing in the Fishing Branch (Ni’iinlii Njik) Protected Area, Yukon, Canada
Erik Val

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage
Michelle L. Berenfeld, guest editor

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Local Evidence, Global Responses
Michelle L. Berenfeld

Sustain the 9!: Greening of the Holy Cross/Lower 9th Community
Charles E. Allen III

Protecting Cultural Resources in Coastal U.S. National Parks from Climate Change
Maria Caffrey and Rebecca Beavers

The Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project: Fifty Years of Challenge and Insight
Michael P. Nelson, Rolf O. Peterson, and John A. Vucetich

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series

The National Park Service and Civic Engagement
Edward T. Linenthal 

Wolf Recovery in Yellowstone: Park Visitor Attitudes, Expenditures, and Economic Impacts
John W. Duffield, Chris J. Neher, and David A. Patterson

Out of Africa: Lessons from Park Management in South Africa
Daniel S. Licht, Rob Slotow, and Joshua Millspaugh

The Economic Importance of Extending Habitat Protection Beyond Park Boundaries:
A Case Study from Costa Rica
Barry Allen, Lee Lines, and Debra Hamilton

Naturalness and Beyond: Protected Area Stewardship in an Era of Global Environmental Change
David N. Cole, Laurie Yung, Erika S. Zavaleta, Gregory H. Aplet, F. Stuart Chapin III,
David M. Graber, Eric S. Higgs, Richard J. Hobbs, Peter B. Landres, Constance I. Millar, David J. Parsons, John M. Randall, Nathan L. Stephenson, Kathy A. Tonnessen, Peter S. White, and Stephen Woodley

Transportation Research Needs in National Parks: A Summary and Exploration of Future Trends
John J. Daigle

A Very Large Array: Early Federal Historic Preservation—
The Antiquities Act, Mesa Verde, and the National Park Service Act
Richard West Sellars

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series
Robin Winks on the Evolution and Meaning of the Organic Act The Organic Act—A User’s Guide: Further Thoughts on Winks’ “A Contradictory Mandate?”
Denis P. Galvin

Accommodating Controversial Expressions of First Amendment Rights in National Parks: One Superintendent’s Experience
John Howard

Issues in Australian Protected Area Management
Graeme L. Worboys and Michael Lockwood

Role of Managed Forestlands and Models for Sustainable Forest Management: Perspectives from North America
William S. Keeton

Archeology, National Natural Landmarks, and State Game Sanctuaries: Combining Efforts for Science and Management
Jeanne Schaaf, Judy Alderson, Joe Meehan, and Joel Cusick

Environmental Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Missing Cultural Link
Blanca Camargo, Katy Lane, and Tazim Jamal

“Who’s Doing the Protecting in Protected Areas?” A Global Perspective on Protected Area Governance
Brent A. Mitchell

Origin and History of Wildland Fire Use in the U.S. National Park System
Bruce M. Kilgore

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series
On the Brink of Greatness: National Parks and the Next Century
Dwight T. Pitcaithley

Integrating Science and Management
Alice Wondrak Biel, Robert E. Bennetts, Bruce B. Bingham, and Andy Hubbard, guest editors

Part I: Essays
Integrating Science and Management: The Road to Rico-Chico
Bruce B. Bingham, Robert E. Bennetts, and Andy Hubbard

Integrating Science and Management: Becoming Who We Thought We Were
Michael Soukup

The Quandaries and Promise of Risk Management:
A Scientist’s Perspective on Integration of Science and Management
Bruce G. Marcot

The Role of Science in National Park Service Decision-making
Suzanne Lewis

Information Management: Barrier or Bridge to Integrating
Natural Resources Science and Management?
Bruce B. Bingham

Part II: Case Studies and Papers
The Challenge of Communicating Monitoring Results to Effect Change
Shawn L. Carter, Giselle Mora-Bourgeois, Todd R. Lookingbill, Tim J. B. Carruthers, and William C. Dennison

Linking Monitoring to Management and Planning: Assessment Points
as a Generalized Approach
Robert E. Bennetts, John E. Gross, Kerri Cahill, Cheryl McIntyre, Bruce B. Bingham,
Andy Hubbard, Lane Cameron, and Shawn L. Carter

The Road to Integrating Science and Management:
Planning Your Next Trip Using Hierarchical Objectives and Assessment Points
Shawn L. Carter and Robert E. Bennetts

Integrated Resource Management: Applying the Concepts of Rico and Chico
to Connect Cultural and Natural Resource Management
Andy Hubbard, Kristin Legg, Duane Hubbard, and Christopher Moos

Comparing Current and Desired Conditions of Resource Values for Evaluating
Management Performance: A Cautionary Note on an Otherwise Useful Concept
Robert E. Bennetts and Bruce B. Bingham

Wherein Lies the Heritage Value? Rethinking the Heritage Value of Cultural Landscapes from an Aboriginal Perspective
Lisa Prosper

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The National Park Service Centennial Essay Series: An Introduction

The National Park System and the Historic American Past: A Brief Overview and Reflection
Richard West Sellars

Glacier National Park and Its Neighbors: A Twenty-Year Assessment of Regional Resource Management
Joseph L. Sax and Robert B. Keiter

The Challenges of Climate Change
Losing Ground: Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption
Stephen Saunders, Tom Easley, Jesse A. Logan, and Theo Spencer

An Inarticulate Truth: Communicating the Science of Global Climate Change
Jonathan B. Jarvis

The National Park Service Interpretation and Education Evaluation Summit
Learning Together: A Summary of the National Park Service Interpretation and Education Evaluation Summit
Julia Washburn, editor

Remarks from the Chair, Education Committee, National Park System Advisory Board
Daniel L. Ritchie

Remarks from the Director, National Park Service
Mary Bomar

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History Repeats? Hydro Dams and the Riverine Ecosystems of Mesoamerica: The Case of La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, Panama, and its Implications
William O. McLarney

Targeting Conservation Easements to Reduce Impacts of Private Land Development on Protected Areas
Tony Prato

Island-specific Ecological Release of Small Mammals in Lake Michigan and Potential Consequences for Ground-nesting Birds: The Importance of American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) in Structuring Small-mammal Communities
J. N. Rosemier and D. J. Flaspohler

Environmental Justice
Gillian Bowser, guest editor

Through the Eyes of a Child: The Many Aspects of Environmental Justice
Gillian Bowser

Fear of the Boom Box: Death Knell for Our Public Lands?
Audrey Peterman

Managers’ Perceptions of Issues in Serving Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Urban Parks
Michael A. Schuett and Gillian Bowser

The Challenge of Environmental Justice for Children: The Impact of Cumulative Disadvantageous Risks
Corliss Wilson Outley

Is Curiosity Good for Anybody?
Henry F. Howe

The Concrete Jungle
Gillian Bowser

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Announcing the 2007 George Melendez Wright Student Travel Scholarships / “Walkin’ in the Footsteps of George” Silent Auction

The Antiquities Act and the Acreage Debate
Frank Norris

The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Becky Nichols, guest editor

Prologue
Michael Soukup

The ATBI in the Smokies: An Overview
Peter White and Keith Langdon

The Science Approach to the Smokies ATBI
Charles Parker and Ernest Bernard

Science Education Programs with the ATBI
Jeanie Hilten, Jamie Cox, Dan Dourson, Heather Grossnickle, Jennifer Pierce, Susan Sachs, Paul Super, and Mark Wetzel

Implications of an ATBI for Reserve Stewardship
Keith Langdon, Peter White, and Becky Nichols

Scientific Findings, Success Stories, Lessons Learned, and an Alliance of ATBIs
Keith Langdon, Charles Parker, and Becky Nichols

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VISITOR IMPACT MONITORING: OLD ISSUES, NEW CHALLENGES
Christopher Monz and Yu-Fai Leung, guest editors

Visitor Impact Monitoring: Old Issues, New Challenges—An Introduction to this Special Issue
Yu-Fai Leung and Christopher Monz

Visitor and Recreation Impact Monitoring: Is It Lost in the Gulf between Science and Management?
David N. Cole

Meaningful Measures: Developing Indicators of Visitor Impact in the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program
Christopher Monz and Yu-Fai Leung

Monitoring Campsite Proliferation and Conditions: Recent Methodological Considerations
Peter Newman, Christopher Monz, Yu-Fai Leung, David M. Theobald

Monitoring Trail Conditions: New Methodological Considerations
Jeffrey L. Marion, Yu-Fai Leung, and Sanjay K. Nepal

Assessing the Effects of Human Activities on Wildlife
Robert J. Steidl and Brian F. Powell

Recreation Monitoring at Acadia National Park
Robert Manning, Charles Jacobi, and Jeffrey L. Marion

VERP: Putting Principles into Practice in Yosemite National Park
James Bacon, James Roche, Crystal Elliot, and Niki Nicholas

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