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: 3 Strategies

Course summary 

Visitor use management is an integral part of any wilderness stewardship program, and relevant goals (desired conditions) and objectives (thresholds) are typically identified in a wilderness stewardship plan. Some plans even prescribe a specific response when certain thresholds are exceeded and wilderness character is threatened or degrading. This course is designed to help you select management strategies and actions to address visitor use impacts in wilderness, particularly if stewardship plan direction is largely absent or inadequate to the situation. 

Course objectives

• Identify the biophysical and social impacts of visitor use and its management on wilderness character. 
• Describe common visitor use management strategies and actions. 
• Determine which visitor use management strategies and actions will best preserve wilderness character. 
• Recognize the relationship between visitor use management strategies and monitoring. 
• Align visitor use management strategies and actions with wilderness stewardship plan goals and objectives. 

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