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: 3 Evaluating Scientific Proposals

Course summary

Conducting research in wilderness can advance our understanding in ways that cannot be realized outside of wilderness. This course, the third in a series of three courses on Cultural Resources Management in Wilderness, provides a comprehensive overview of the process used to evaluate proposals for scientific activity in wilderness.

Much of the course material is based on A Framework to Evaluate Scientific Activities in Wilderness, a document created by the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute.

Course objectives

• After completing this course, learners should be able to:
• Explain how cultural research is compatible with wilderness management.
• Use the evaluation framework to evaluate a proposal for scientific activity.
• Identify "red flags" in a proposal.
• Evaluate the quality of a proposal.
• Determine if research is wilderness dependent.
• Complete a Benefits Assessment.
• Complete an Impacts Assessment.

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