Our Registration Process

This registration process is not immediate. It can take 24-48 hours to receive access to your course.

Our courses are hosted by the University of Montana and certified in their Extended Education program. So, the first time you register involves a couple extra steps to get you into the University of Montana system.

First Time Registration Process

1. After checking out with the course below, you will receive an email to register with the University of Montana's online learning platform: Canvas. This email may take 24-hours to arrive.

2. Once you complete Canvas registration (instruction included in the email), you will receive a second email from Canvas when you are given access to your course. This second process may also take 24-hours, but is usually much faster.

Registering for Additional Courses

Once you have a Canvas account, the registration process for additional courses is much faster. Your course will appear in your Canvas dashboard shortly after checking out below. 

Deciding to Keep Wilderness Wild: Four Cornerstones for Wilderness Managers

Course summary
This course explores the four most important principles of managing wilderness. Using stories and case studies, the course will prepare you to make well-informed decisions that minimize negative impacts to wilderness character as required by the Wilderness Act of 1964.

Each Cornerstone begins with a story to help frame the theoretical perspective of that Cornerstone and concludes with a short case study that allows you to practice what you have learned. The stories and case studies are based on real situations. They are designed to stimulate your thought process so that when you are faced with difficult wilderness stewardship issues, you can make informed, appropriate management decisions.

Course objectives
After completing this course, learners should be able to:

• Describe the Four Cornerstones for Wilderness Managers.
• Distinguish between wildness (untrammeled) and natural conditions, and
• Describe how the positive and negative impacts of management actions may preserve one while degrading the other (Preserve Wildness and Natural Conditions).
• Identify the overall benefits of wilderness.
• Identify the benefits present in an individual wilderness, and
• Determine how best to protect them (Protect Wilderness Benefits).
• Explain the concept of minimum requirements,
• Conduct the two-step process for determining if an administrative action is necessary, and
• Determine the minimum activity necessary to achieve the action (Provide and Use the Minimum Necessary).
• Describe wilderness and the components that contribute to its unique character as a whole (Manage Wilderness as a Whole).

These are self-paced, continuous enrollment courses offered through the UM Wilderness Institute in partnership with the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center.