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: 1 Fundamentals

Course Summary

This course will introduce you to the topic of visitor use management (VUM) in wilderness, explain why it is necessary, review relevant laws and agency policies, and examine the challenges of VUM in wilderness, including threats to the biophysical and social components of wilderness resources.

From delicate cave formations vulnerable to human touch to popular whitewater rivers, every wilderness provides opportunities for visitors to explore and experience wild and natural environments. Visitor use of wilderness also leads to impacts on the wilderness resource that require careful management. But that management also has effects. This course examines the need for, regulation of, and possible effects of VUM in wilderness.

Course Outcomes

• Recall relevant portions of law and agency-specific policy.
• Define visitor use management.
• Explain why visitor use management is needed.
• Identify the challenges of managing visitor use and the potential threats to the wilderness resource that accompany it.

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