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Chair:
Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research
Institute
Abstracts by Working Session - 10/20/01
(Working Draft Schedule)
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State-of-Knowledge
on Protected Areas Issues in Southern Africa
Chairs:
Wayne Freimund, University of
Montana, USA and
Charles Breen, University of
Natal (oral presentations)
1. Barbara K. Williams (Clemson University, South Carolina) - Traditional Primary Product Extraction: The Case of the Makuleke Community and the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
2. Simon J. F. Allen (Jeffreys Bay, South Africa) - Wilderness and Society: The Guiding Link.
3. Japie Buckle and Patric Marsh (South Africa) - Echoes in the Wilderness.
4. Drummond Densham and A. J. Conway (Wilderness Action Group of South Africa and the KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife Service) - Planning and Management of the Umfolozi Wilderness Area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Model for Managing African Wilderness Areas.
5. Guy Palmer (Western Cape Nature Conservation Board), Nigel Wessels (Western Cape Nature Conservation Board) and Maretha Shroyer (Mountain Club of South Africa) - A Situation Analysis of Wilderness Recreation in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
6. Jenny Lawrence (Eastern Cape, South Africa) - The Khanyisa Environmental Education Programme for the Schools of the Garden Route Conducted Under the Auspices of the Garden Route Trust.
7. Mark Botha (Botanical Society of South Africa) and Genevieve Pence (University of Cape Town) - The Future for Private Conservation in South Africa: Options and Opportunities for Conservation Incentives.
8. Bill Bainbridge (KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa) - Establishment of a Buffer Zone in the Peripheries of Wilderness Areas in the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site, Kwazulu-Natal Province, Republic of South Africa.
9. Peter Blignaut (Southern Africa Mountain Environment Consultancy) and Maretha Shroyer (Mountain Club of South Africa) - Mountain Conservation in South Africa.
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Traditional
and Ecological Values of Nature
Chair:
*Angela West, Bureau of Land Management, USA
Keynotes:
1. Malcolm Draper (University of Natal) - In Quest of African Wilderness: The Righteous Wrongs of Environmental History.
2. Catherine Dzerefos (South Africa) - A Medicinal Plant Rating System for Promoting Conservation Through Community Use.
Posters:
3. Susan Menanno (Cultural Consultant, Oregon) - Preserving Land Using Cool Burning Techniques of the Takelma Indians That Can Protect Wilderness Values.
4. S.P. Goyal and Aparajita Datta (Wildlife Institute of India) - Responses of Arboreal Tree Squirrels to Selective Logging in Arunachal Pradesh.
5. Linda Moon Stumpff (Evergreen College, Washington State) - Protecting Traditional Values and Wildlife: Restorative Relationships.
6. T. Damu (India) - Helping the Eco-system People to Help Protect Wilderness and Also Help Promote Their Own Welfare.
7. Victoria Churikova for Alexey Drouziaka (Novosibirsk Institute, Russia) - The Daily Activity of Wooper Swans Wintering at Kronotskoye Lake, Kronotsky State Biosphere Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia.
8. Denis Bogomolov (Moscow, Russia) - Harriers in European Russia: Ecology, Distribution and Population Management.
9. Sandra Hinchman (St. Lawrence University, New York) - Endangered Species, Endangered Cultures: Native Resistance to Industrializing the Arctic.
10. *Tej Kumar Shrestha (Kathmandu, Nepal) - Wilderness and Biodiversity of Everest Region of Nepal.
11. *Bokka "Mntengentonga" du Toit (Kouga/Tsitsikamma Traditional Healers Organisation, Khoisan Awareness Initiative, Kouga Enviro Tourism Association, Project Coordinator - Kouga Cultural Centre - Humansdorp) - Traditional African Spirituality and Wilderness.
12. Kelly Luck and Zweliyanyikima Vena (Rhodes University, South Africa) - Contested Rights: The Impacts of Game Farming on Farm Workers in the Bushmans River Area.
13. Chad Dear (Western Washington University) - Recreationists' Understanding of Subsistence in Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
14. Karina Pinasco Vela (Pro-Manu Ecologist, Peru) - The Gradual Insert of the Indigenous Populations of the Manu Biosphere Reserve to the Economy of Market.
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Protection
of Coastal/Marine and River/Lake Wilderness Ecosystems
Chair:
Paul Mitchell-Banks , Program Manager,
Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, British Columbia, Canada
Keynotes:
1. Edmund Green (Head, Marine and Coastal Programme, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, United Kingdom) - Two Contrasting Approaches to the Protection of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Throughout the Wider Caribbean.
2. Bill Bainbridge (KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa) - Rationalization of the Commercial Afforestation Programme on the Western Shores of Lake St Lucia, for Extension of the St Lucia Wetlands World Heritage Site, and Promotion of Compatible Land-use Methods in the Peripheries of the St Lucia Wilderness Areas.
Posters:
3. John Daigle (University of Maine), Jamie Hannon (University of Maine) and Cynthia Stacey (University of New Brunswick) - User Preferences for Resource and Social Conditions: A Comparison of Users' Primary Motive and Level of Attachment to the St. Croix International Waterway.
4. Laani Uunila (Massey University, New Zealand) - Community Involvement in New Zealand Marine Reserve Management: Examining Practice.
5. *S. K. Palita (Kendrapara College, India) - Study on the Degraded Status of Coastal Mangrove Ecosystems of Mahanadi Delta of Orissa, India and Occurrence of Natural Disasters.
6. Penny Bernard (Rhodes University, South Africa) - The Ecological Implications of the Water Spirit Beliefs in Southern Africa.
7. Nolly Zaloumis (Wilderness Action Group, South Africa) - The Southern African Wetlands: A Major Wilderness Resource.
8. Sally Wynn (Zambezi Society, Zimbabwe) - Research Into Visitor Perceptions about Wilderness and Its Value in the Zambezi River Context.
9. Carolyn 'Tally' Palmer (Rhodes University, South Africa) - Wilderness, Science, People, Policy, Law and Water.
10. Victoria Churikova for Nadya Drouziaka (Russian Student, Novosibirsk State University) - Creation of the Geological Reserve Inside the Uzon Caldera, Kronotsky State Biosphere Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia.
11. *Ashutosh Debata and Mita Debata (District Environment Society, India) - Control of Pollution of the Marine Eco-system.
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Wilderness:
Systems and Approaches to Protection
Chair:
Bill Bainbridge,
Wilderness Action Group, South Africa (all oral presentations)
1. André Schoon (President, Mountain Club of South Africa - MCSA), Maretha Shroyer (Convenor, National MCSA Environment Subcommittee) and Fran Hunziker (National Secretary MCSA) - An NGO's Contribution to Mountain Conservation in South Africa.
2. Victoria Churikova (Novosibirsk State University, Russia) - Human Communities in Their Relations With Nature Reserves in Kamchatka, Russia.
3. *Albi Brückner (NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia) - The NamibRand Nature Reserve.
4. Kirstin Miller (Ecocity Builders, California) - Design of Future Cities and the Fate of Wilderness.
5. Mathieu Rouget, Richard Cowling, David Richardson and Robert Pressey (South Africa) - A Systematic Approach for Identifying Spatial Components of Ecological Processes for Conservation Planning in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa.
6. Magdalena Muir (Arctic Institute of North America, Calgary, Canada) - Application of Principles of Sustainable Utilization for Wildlife and Protected Areas in North America, the Circumpolar Arctic Region and Africa.
7. Paul Mitchell-Banks (British Columbia, Canada) - Protecting and Sustaining Wilderness Values in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.
8. Doug Morris (Shenandoah National Park, Virginia) - Cultural Connections in Wilderness
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Personal and Societal Values of Wilderness:
Recreation, Tourism and Personal Growth.
Chair:
Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia
Keynotes:
1. Florence Shepard (The Murie Center, Wyoming), Lisa Krall (State University of New York) and John Organ (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) - The Value of Wilderness Revisited.
2. Perry Brown (Dean of the School of Forestry, University of Montana) - Personal and Societal Values and Wilderness Stewardship.
Posters:
3. Peter B. Myles (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) - The Contribution of Wilderness to the Survival of the Adventure Travel and Ecotourism Markets.
4. Laura Fredrickson (St. Lawrence University, New York) - Wilderness Ecotourism and Education as a Means of Promoting an International Environmental Ethic.
5. Ralf Buckley (Griffith University, Australia) - Is Tourism Good or Bad for Wilderness in 2001?
6. Sophie Jakowska (Professor of Biology [ret.] College of Staten Island, CUNY, New York) and Dyrce Lacombe (Member [ret.] Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil) - Wildlife in Growing Cities: Eco-Socio-Cultural Considerations.
7. Brian Glaspell (University of Montana & Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute) and Alan Watson (Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute) - Unique Recreation Values of Arctic Wilderness in Alaska.
8. Roger Moore and Shanna Davis (North Carolina State University) - Horseback Use of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA: Factors Related to Willingness to Volunteer for Trail Management Activities.
9. Les Wadzinski (Hoosier National Forest, Indiana) - Management Actions to Protect Wilderness Experiences and the Resource.
10. *Scott Taylor - Psychological Effects of Being in Wilderness for Extended Stays.
11. Patrick Maher (Lincoln University, New Zealand) - Antarctica: Tourism, Wilderness and "Ambassadorship."
12. Franco Zunino (Italian Wilderness Association) - Title To Be Announced
13. Anna Spenceley (University of Natal, South Africa) - Ecotourism and the Diversification of Revenue Generation From Wilderness Areas: The Case of Jackalberry Lodge, Thornybush Game Reserve.
14. *R. N. Batta (India) - Valuation of Recreational resources and Policy for Sustainable Tourism: A Study of Kufri-Chail Area in HimachalPradesh, India.
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The Role of Science, Education and Collaborative Planning in Wilderness
Protection and Restoration
Chair:
David Parsons, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, USA
Keynotes:
1. Drummond Densham and Robert Fincham (Wilderness Action Group of South Africa and the Centre for the Environment and Development, University of Natal) - Wilderness Training in South Africa: The Roles of the University of Natal and the Wilderness Action Group of Southern Africa.
2. Jan van Wagtendonk (Yosemite National Park, California) - The Role of Science in the Sustainable Management of the Yosemite Wilderness.
Posters:
3. Crewenna Dymond (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) - Investigating the Environmental Cause of Global Wilderness and Species Richness Distribution.
4. Barb Miranda (Southern and Central Sierra Wilderness Education Project) - Wildlink: Bridging Wilderness, Technology and Diversity.
5. Sue Matthews (Carhart Center, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana) - Working Effectively with Rural Communities in Protected Areas (Wilderness Areas).
6. Till Meyer (German journalist, currently on the editorial staff of "Natur & Kosmos" Germany's leading environmental magazine) - The Shack Revisited: Aldo Leopold's Perceptions of Wilderness Set Against the Historic, Legal and International Background.
7. Børge Dahle (Norway) - Learning From Others: Expanding Models for Effective Teaching, Training and Experiencing Wilderness.
8. Nick King (Director, BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, United Kingdom) - Overcoming the Taxonomic Impediment to Sustainable Development - BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, the Global Network for Taxonomy.
9. Ralf Kalwa (Kruger National Park, South Africa) - Cross Boundary Impacts in the Crocodile River Valley.
10. Stefanie Freitag-Ronaldson, et al. (Kruger National Park, South Africa) - Wilderness, Wilderness Quality Management and Recreational Opportunities Zoning Within the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
11. Teresa Cristina Magro (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Closure Trails: A Restoration Strategy or a Lack of Management.
12. Teresa Cristina Magro and José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Seed Bank Study as a Tool for Choosing the Better Strategy for Trail Recovery.
13. Charles Besancon (Wilderness Information Network, University of Montana) - Expanding the Scope of Wilderness.Net: The Need for an International Wilderness Information Network.
14. *Raja Chatterjee (The Junglees, India) - Status of the Elevation of Achanakmar Sanctuary to National Park.
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The Wildlands Project
Special Feature Session
1. David M. Johns - (Portland State University and The Wildlands Project) - The Application of The Wildlands Project Model Outside North America.
2. Michael Soulé (Boardmember, The Wildlands Project) - Wildlands Network Design: The Role of Top Carnivores in the Regulation of Ecosystem Structure and Diversity.
3. *Leanne Klyza-Linck (Executive Director, The Wildlands Project) - Continental Conservation: Implementation Challenges.
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Spiritual Benefits, Religious Beliefs and New Stories
Chair:
To Be Announced
(all oral presentations)
Panel Members:
1. Hafiz Nazeem Goolam (University of South Africa) - Preserving Paradise Through Religious Values of Nature: The Islamic Approach.
2. Baylor Johnson (St. Lawrence University, New York) - Sources of Spiritual Benefits of Wilderness: A Philosopher's Reflections.
3. David M. Johns (Portland State University and The Wildlands Project) - Our Real Challenge: Managing Ourselves Instead of Nature.
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USA State of Knowledge: The Role of Science in Education
Moderator:
Wayne Freimund, Wilderness Institute, University of Montana
Panel Members:
David Cole, U.S. Forest Service, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Perry Brown, Dean of the School of Forestry, University of Montana
Steve McCool, Professor of Recreation Management, School of Forestry, University of Montana.
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Special Discussion Session:
Establishment of a Membership Organization for Protected Area Management/Wilderness Stewardship
Chair:
Connie Myers, Arthur Carhart National Wilderness
Training Center, Missoula, Montana
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* Not confirmed as participating
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