The George Wright Forum Backlist

Back Issues of The George Wright Forum

The George Wright Forum is the journal of the GWS. Published since 1981, the Forum provides a venue for essays on cultural and natural parks, protected natural areas, and cultural sites, and related aspects of environmental and cultural conservation and preservation. It is available as part of membership benefits of the Society. Click here for more information on The George Wright Forum, including sample articles from the current issue.

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Downloading issues. Back issues of the Forum are downloadable at no charge, as follows:

Volumes 1–16 are available in PDF. These files were created by scanner; hence the file sizes can be quite large and the files are not searchable. For some issues, individual articles can be downloaded; for others, only the entire issue is available as a single PDF file. If an individual article is not linked in the list below, that means it is not available separately.
Starting with Volume 17, the PDF files were created “natively” with Adobe Acrobat from the source layout software, and so are fully searchable.

Look over the table below for a quick sense of the contents of past issues. If there is a theme to the issue, it is given under the volume/issue number. NOTE: most theme issues also contain other articles not related to the theme. Use the links to jump down the page to the contents of each issue; this is where you will find the links to the PDF files. Or you can scroll down the page to the contents of individual issues and scan through them one by one.

2008

Volume 25, #1

Naturalness as a Benchmark for PAs

Volume 25, #2

Wild & Scenic Rivers; Climate Change & Cultural Resources

2007

Volume 24, #1

Climate Change

Volume 24, #2

Integrating Science & Management

Volume 24, #3

Archeology at NNLs

Beginning in 2007, The George Wright Forum is published three times a year

2006

Volume 23, #1

ICOMOS-Ename Charter

Volume 23, #2

Visitor Impact Monitoring

Volume 23, #3

All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories

Volume 23, #4

Environmental Justice

2005

Volume 22, #1

Landscape-Scale Conservation

Volume 22, #2

Privatization

Volume 22, #3

Geodiversity & Geoconservation

Volume 22, #4

Fire Management

2004

Natural Soundscapes

Intangible Values

State of the CESUs

Ocean Stewardship

2003

Volume 20, #1

Volume 20, #2

Stewardship of Heritage Areas

Volume 20, #3

The Challenge of Wilderness

Volume 20, #4

Voices from the World Parks Congress

2002

Volume 19, #1

Applied Geography

Volume 19, #2

Once Again, Why Public Parks?

Volume 19, #3

Volume 19, #4

Civic Engagement at Sites of Conscience

2001

Volume 18, #1

Volume 18, #2

Protected Areas in East Asia

Volume 18, #3

Recreational Use of Parks & Protected Areas

Volume 18, #4

Protecting Dark Skies

2000

Volume 17, #1

Landscape Stewardship

Volume 17, #2

Changing Ideas and Visions for Parks

Volume 17, #3

The State of State Parks

Volume 17, #4

GWS 20th Anniversary Issue

1999

Volume 16, #1

The Chesapeake Bay Program

Volume 16, #2

State of the Environment Reporting

Volume 16, #3

National Park Service Management Policy

Volume 16, #4

Archaeology & the National Park Idea

1998

Volume 15, #1

The Business Connection

Volume 15, #2

Italian Park Experience / Civil War Parks I

Volume 15, #3

Global Connections / Civil War Parks II

Volume 15, #4

Historical Perspectives on Science in Yellowstone

1997

Volume 14, #1

Wildlife Policy, Philosophy & Politics

Volume 14, #2

Volume 14, #3

Lat. American Mountain Protected Areas

Volume 14, #4

1996

Volume 13, #1

Nature & Culture in Historic Landscapes

Volume 13, #2

Values, Ethics, and Public Lands

Volume 13, #3

Voices of the New West

Volume 13, #4

1995

Volume 12, #1

North America Protected Area Inventory

Volume 12, #2

Parks in a Re-Emerging Russia

1994

Preservation / Interpreta-tion of Historic Sites

Volume 11, #3

Population Growth and Protected Areas

Volume 11, #4

30th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act

1993

Volume 10, #1

Volume 10, #2

Lessons of the Past / Future Foundations

Volume 10, #3

Volume 10, #4

Sustainability, Respect, and Responsibility

1992

Volume 8, #4

New Perspectives from the US Forest Service

Volume 9, #1

Exotic Species in National Parks

Volume 9, #2

Dam Licensing and Protected Areas

Volume 9, #3/4

World Parks Congress Workshop on Research

1991

Volume 7, #4

Volume 8, #1

Challenges in Protected Area Management

Landscapes

1990

10th Anniversary Issue

Volume 7, #3 (1991)

NPS Global Change Research Program

1989

1988

1987

1986

1985

1984

1983

1982

1981

Contents by issue

1:1 (1981)

1:2 (1981)

2:1 (1982)

2:2 (1982)

2:3 (1982) OUT OF PRINT

2:4 (1982)

3:1 (1983)

3:2 (1983)

3:3 (1983)

3:4 (1983) OUT OF PRINT

4:1 (1984) OUT OF PRINT