Call for Proposals: The 2013 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, March 11-15, 2013
The GWS mission is to encourage dialogue and information exchange among all the people needed for protected area conservation, across all disciplines. The annual conference provides an exciting opportunity to learn from and network with natural and cultural professionals from across the US and beyond. Based on my participation in past GWS conferences, the content is always of a very high quality, but there is definitely an opportunity to increase the number of cultural resource topics. Consider submitting proposals for the 2013 conference. Cultural resource proposals focused on green building/sustainability/climate change would be especially well received.
Now accepting abstracts • Deadline: October 1, 2012
Conference website: http://www.georgewright.org/gws2013
Plan now to join us in Denver the week of March 11–15, 2013, for Protected Areas in a Changing World, the biennial George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. GWS2013 is all about reflection, reconnection, and renewal — a week of stimulating discussion about leading-edge research, innovative practices, and foundational values.
Every two years, the George Wright Society organizes the USA’s premier interdisciplinary professional meeting on parks, protected areas, and cultural sites. By these three overlapping terms we mean a broad array of places, both “cultural” and “natural,” managed by different entities under a variety of designations:
parks at all levels: federal, state/provincial, county, and city historic, archaeological, and other cultural sites; cultural
landscapes; protected landscapes/seascapes research areas and designated wilderness within national and state
forests; other protected natural areas grasslands, wildlife refuges, and other protected public lands areas and sites administered by tribal nations and/or indigenous people; community-conserved areas; sacred natural sites marine protected areas; estuarine, freshwater, and other aquatic sanctuaries private land-trust reserves.
The GWS is unique among professional organizations because our mission is to encourage dialogue and information exchange among all the people needed for protected area conservation, across all disciplines.
Want to share your work, your ideas, your ideals with the larger parks community? The GWS conference is the place to do it. We invite abstracts from people who want to:
organize a Concurrent Session
organize a Workshop
organize an Affinity Meeting
organize a Business Meeting
organize a Sharing Circle
organize a Café Conversation
present a PAC (Paper for Assignment to a Concurrent session)
present a Poster
present an Exhibit
This wide variety of options makes for an exciting, diverse program.
To submit an abstract, go to http://www.georgewright.org/gws2013 and follow
the links.
Dave Harmon
Executive Director
Emily Dekker-Fiala
Conference Coordinator
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David Harmon, Executive Director
George Wright Society • P.O. Box 65
(ground deliveries: 49445 US Hwy 41)
Hancock, MI 49930-0065 USA
+1-906-487-9722 • dharmon@georgewright.org
Skype: dave_harmon • www.georgewright.org