George Wright Society :: Parks, Protected Areas Cultural Sites

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The George Wright Society champions stewardship of parks, protected & conserved areas, cultural sites, and other kinds of place-based conservation by connecting people, places, knowledge, and ideas. By uniting people from many different backgrounds around a common passion for protecting Earth’s natural and cultural heritage, we create the collaboration needed to meet today’s greatest conservation challenges.

INNOVATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES FOR
Parks • Cultural Sites
Protected / Conserved Areas

University of Montana, Missoula • October 20–23, 2025

Plan to join us as we launch a new series of annual workshops exploring the latest in place-based conservation!

Check out the workshop program — and we‘re still accepting proposals for Posters

GWS ParkForum 2025 1-min Intro

GWS ParkForum 2025 1-min Intro

Check out the latest issue of our open-access journal, Parks Stewardship Forum

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INSPIRED BY GEORGE MELÉNDEZ WRIGHT

The first-ever biography of our namesake — the visionary who revolutionized management of America‘s national parks

“Emory’s enumeration of Wright’s accomplishments—including a survey of wildlife in Western parks, the first of its kind—is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Highly recommended for nature lovers and park enthusiasts.” LIBRARY JOURNAL

Watch our virtual chat
with author Jerry Emory!

Parkwire, GWS’s daily global digest

of park news • Follow on FB

Latest top headlines • 15 August 2025

For the first time, officials at Isle Royale NP killed a wolf because it had become habituated to human food and was having dangerous interactions with visitors. https://buff.ly/yRTmqqK

A judge has, for the moment, put a stop to plans to build a large data center near Manassas NB. https://buff.ly/gNtJ4d2

The latest attempt to come up with a global treaty to fight plastic production and pollution fell apart after O&G-producing countries tied it in knots. https://buff.ly/lK0kP6Z

Despite a court setback this week, Trump is looking at opening up Papahānaumokuākea Marine NMon to commercial fishing. https://buff.ly/IsSXYsW

Climate change, which is making Britain's summer exceptionally hot this year, is also, making the position of old walls — called "parchmarks" — visible. It's a boon, howsoever unwanted, to archaeologists. https://buff.ly/BDlN971

A new report analyzes the effects on the Great Barrier Reef of a massive coral bleaching in early 2024. It says the event caused the biggest drop in live coral cover since 1986 in two of the three areas surveyed. https://buff.ly/eLh0w4K

Historians are very concerned about Trump's new plans to "audit" the Smithsonian's exhibits for material he disagrees with. https://buff.ly/whYx4Gt

Both the Javan and the Sumatran rhino species are perilously close to extinction — fewer than 100 of each remain — according to a new report. But there is a glimmer of hope. https://buff.ly/oAE1jLP

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