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.
Cultural Resource Management in Wilderness: 2 Inventory & Monitoring
Course summary
The success of wilderness management depends heavily on inventory, monitoring, and research processes. This course, the second in a series of three courses on Cultural Resources Management in Wilderness, provides an in-depth look at the special requirements of inventorying and monitoring cultural resources in wilderness. Specific topics include types of inventories and the steps of a successful monitoring program.
Course objectives
- Explain the difference between inventory and monitoring.
- Identify agency policies on cultural resource inventory and monitoring.
- Describe the four types of inventory surveys.
- Explain basic techniques for inventory and monitoring when managing cultural resources in a wilderness setting.
- Recall the four indicator criteria.
- Select a monitoring methodology using six basic considerations.
These are self-paced, continuous enrollment courses offered through the UM Wilderness Institute in partnership with the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center.
