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.
Special Provisions in Wilderness: Minerals
Course summary
Managing the balance between preserving wilderness character and managing mineral related activities requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. This course reviews the basic principles regarding mineral rights and examines the management steps in evaluating and authorizing mineral activities so as to preserve wilderness character to the greatest degree possible.
Course objectives
- Define common vocabulary associated with mineral management.
- Recognize the various mineral related activities that may occur in a wilderness.
- Differentiate between saleable, leasable, and locatable minerals activities in wilderness.
- Understand how exploration, development, and conclusion of mining activities may take place in wilderness.
- State what constitutes valid existing rights to minerals and by what means that is determined.
- List principles of private mineral estate ownership in wilderness.
- Explain key laws and related case law, regulations, and policy related to mineral management in wilderness.
- Recognize the access provisions and limitations associated with development of mineral rights in wilderness.
- Describe how to protect wilderness character to the greatest extent possible while managing mineral activities in wilderness.
- Explain the relationship of mineral activities outside of wilderness to adjacent wilderness.
These are self-paced, continuous enrollment courses offered through the UM Wilderness Institute in partnership with the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center.
