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. 

Visitor Use Management in Wilderness: 2 Inventory & Monitoring

Course summary

Monitoring in wilderness ensures that wilderness character, as well as the values and benefits of wilderness, are being preserved. Visitor use monitoring is the routine and systematic collection of wilderness resource information to identify changes in conditions over time caused by visitor use or visitor use management. For the purposes of this course, it also includes inventories conducted to assess existing conditions or establish a monitoring baseline. This information can be used to inform new management and planning decisions, or to evaluate the effectiveness of previous management actions and improve subsequent decision making. 

Course objectives 

• Identify the objectives of visitor use monitoring in wilderness. 
• Recognize the role of visitor use monitoring in preserving wilderness character. 
• Relate visitor use monitoring to wilderness character monitoring. 
• Describe the four common types of visitor use monitoring programs. 
• Explain the steps typically involved in building a visitor use monitoring strategy. 

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