Why Wilderness The Storied Past, The Troubled Future: The Imperative of Wilderness at 50 Years

Why wilderness? Rolston talk at the 2014 Mansfield Conference, "The Storied Past, The Troubled Future: The Imperative of Wilderness at 50 Years," held at the University of Montana, September 10-12. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/86383

1. Half a Century of Wilderness; 2. Urban, Rural, Wild - Three-Dimensional Persons; 3. Wilderness is for People!?; 4. Wilderness as Social Construct? Mind?; 5. Wilderness as Social Construct? Hand?; 6. The World that Runs Itself. Montana, the mountain state, can set a national and global example of conserving and celebrating wilderness.