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Wilderness Management Distance Education Program (WMDEP)
- Staff
Kari
Gunderson is the education coordinator and instructor
for the Wilderness Management Education Program. Kari received
her M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana
and has a Ph.D. in Recreation, Park, & Leisure Studies from
the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. For her dissertation
Kari evaluated the K-8 "Wilderness and Land Ethic" curriculum
with support from the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training
Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute.
Kari makes her home in the Swan Valley of northwestern Montana,
where she has worked as a wilderness ranger, educator, and
field manager in the Mission Mountains Wilderness for 30 years.
kari.gunderson@umontana.edu
Lisa
Gerloff is the WMDEP manager. Although Lisa
traveled north to earn her M.S. in geology from the University
of Calgary, her study area for her thesis (environmental change)
was the Mission Mountains of Montana. Lisa still spends much
of her time in the Missions and other wildllands of Montana
hiking, backpacking, and skiing with her husband and their
dogs. Lisa is also the executive coordinator for the Rocky
Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), a university/agency
partnership to promote and facilitate research, education
and technical assistance focusing on natural resources, cultural
resources and environmental issues of the Rocky Mountain
states. (406) 243-5346; wmdep@cfc.umt.edu
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