George Wright Society :: Parks, Protected Areas Cultural Sites

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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.

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

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

Check out the latest issue of our open-access journal, Parks Stewardship Forum

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INSPIRED BY GEORGE MELÉNDEZ WRIGHT

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!

Parkwire, GWS’s daily global digest

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Latest top headlines • 3 July 2025

Trump has cut 24% of USNPS's permanent work force, according to new figures compiled by the National Parks Conservation Association. That doesn't include further planned mass firings currently held up in court. https://buff.ly/ikLBu07

According to the website of the conservative group The Federalist, Golden Gate NRA will be reviewing the language of signs at Muir Woods NMon after the group complained via one of the Trump-ordered QR code signs. https://buff.ly/8lVWlB1

Trump is poised to hobble one of the US's bedrock environmental laws, the National Environmental Policy Act. https://buff.ly/se5dBsb

Having too much, or not enough, water threatens almost 75% of the world's World Heritage sites, UNESCO reports. https://buff.ly/NGOWwvK

Enviros are suing to stop the building of a migrant detention camp in Big Cypress NPres. https://buff.ly/smloeNe

Trump shut down the government website devoted to the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessments. Past assessments are still available on two other government websites, for the time being. (They are also part of GWS's The Stewardship Archive.) https://buff.ly/qYhs0pv

White-nose syndrome, the ban of bats worldwide, appears to be spreading in Rocky Mountain NP, where its presence recently was confirmed. https://buff.ly/1EfKMvK

Florida's governor says that a large migrant detention center being built inside of Big Cypress NPres will have no effect on the Everglades ecosystem or efforts to restore it. https://buff.ly/t6FIReG

Some prominent MAGA figures are unhappy with Republican proposals to sell off federal public lands. https://buff.ly/JsE75yB

Tanzania is transferring a big chunk of its largest NP, Nyereye, to a lesser-protected game reserve, Selous, ostensibly to ease conflicts with local villages. https://buff.ly/CObDEHG

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