I brochure I made for the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center

1. Established in 1993, the Arthur
Carhart National Wilderness
Training Center was created to
train agency employees in
wilderness stewardship and
management priniciples for the
benefit of the National Wilder-
ness Preservation System. We also
inform and educate the public
about wilderness history, laws, stewardship, and
wilderness values.
The Carhart Center is jointly
staffed and funded through
an interagency partnership
among the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS), Forest
Service (FS), and National
Park Service (NPS). Oversight
is provided by the national
wilderness program leaders from each of the four
wilderness-managing agencies and
the interagency Wilderness Policy
Council.
Overall, we strive to empower
agency employees and the public
to preserve their wilderness
heritage through training,
information, and education.
Training Center
National Wilderness
ARTHUR CARHART
Training
Information
Education
About Us
Our training staff is composed of representatives from
all four federal land management agencies: Bureau of
Land Management, Fish & Wildlife Service, Forest
Service, and National Park Service. Carhart trainers
have years of experience managing wilderness within
their respective agencies. They work together to
ensure wilderness is properly managed not only for
the benefit of their agencies, but the National Wilder-
ness Preservation System as a whole. Please visit
carhart.wilderness.net to learn more about the
Carhart staff.
Phone: 406.243.4682
Fax: 406.243.4717
carhart.wilderness.net
James E. Todd Building
32 Campus Drive #3168
Missoula, Montana 59812

2. The Carhart Center has
developed National Wilderness
Preservation System maps,
brochures, and displays in
support of numerous education
and outreach efforts across the
country. Wilderness Views,
developed in cooperation with
the National Park Service, is a
web-based, interactive, multimedia educational site for
wilderness which meets national teaching standards and
is available to teachers and students. A K-12 Wilderness
and Land Ethic Curriculum is available for download at
carhart.wilderness.net
Our documentary film, American Values: American
Wilderness first aired on national public television in
2005. This film, narrated by Christopher Reeve, weaves
together the passionate love of wilderness shared by
many people across the nation.
In 1996, a partnership between the
Carhart Center, Aldo Leopold Wilder-
ness Research Institute, and the Univer-
sity of Montana’s Wilderness Institute
was formed in order to create
www.wilderness.net.
The site houses the only officially-recognized, national, compre-
hensive, interagency database of information about the BLM,
FWS, FS, and NPS wilderness areas. Critical wilderness
information is provided to managers, scientists, educators, and
the public through searchable databases, wilderness legislation,
research, and information regarding wilderness areas and
stewardship issues. We continue to develop online “Toolboxes”
to assist managers with specific stewardship dilemmas and
initiatives. Other features include a robust image library, blogs,
and interactive maps.
Training
Carhart Center training improves consistency and collaboration in on-the-ground
wilderness decisions among managers, stewardship skills among wilderness staff, and
wilderness awareness among agency employees.
We offer both online and classroom training courses to
federal land managers with wilderness related duties.
One-day to one-week classroom courses and online
courses are offered all across the country, and an
increasing suite of online courses are available. This
combined delivery method ensures that more people
have greater access to training when needed and at the lowest possible cost.
For more information about training, registration, and course
schedules visit carhart.wilderness.net.
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The Carhart Center staff works with experts
within and outside the agencies to develop
comprehensive interagency solutions to
critical stewardship issues. Materials devel-
oped are distributed to each of the wilderness
units, and training sessions are offered where
they are most needed. This coordination
greatly reduces duplication of effort, staff,
and funding.
Information
Education