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The Wrangell Mountains Center is a private non-profit institute dedicated to environmental education, research, and arts in Alaska`s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve.
Our Vision
The Wrangell Mountains Center strives to facilitate understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of the lands and communities of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve. We enjoy seeing people personally transformed through their experience with this extraordinary place. Our programs provide students, local citizens, scholars, and travelers with an increased understanding of complex natural processes, a changed view of the human place in the natural environment, and new skills for taking effective action on their own local issues.
In the process of helping people come to know the Wrangell Mountains, we are building a strong local, national, and international constituency for the protection of wildlands and the enhancement of mountain cultures in Alaska and beyond.
Guiding Principles
The board and staff of the Wrangell Mountains Center evaluate past, present, and future institute activities in light of the following guiding principles:
* We value strong communities: in all our activities we strive to maintain a supportive and cooperative living, working, and learning environment.
* We support diverse modes of perception and expression in our exploration of the relationships between people and place: an interdisciplinary approach that embraces the analytical, artistic, scientific, and spiritual.
* We strive to protect the uniquely wild qualities of this landscape: wilderness is valuable both for its own sake and for the powerful direct experience it offers us.
* We believe in experiential education: we facilitate a learning process of inquiry and discovery through direct contact with the outside environment.
* We are intimate with the Wrangells: we wish to attract and retain a committed, locally-experienced staff.
* We find that attention cultivates compassion: awareness of our natural and social environment is important, and communities thrive when people live with engaged senses.
Our Vision
The Wrangell Mountains Center strives to facilitate understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of the lands and communities of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve. We enjoy seeing people personally transformed through their experience with this extraordinary place. Our programs provide students, local citizens, scholars, and travelers with an increased understanding of complex natural processes, a changed view of the human place in the natural environment, and new skills for taking effective action on their own local issues.
In the process of helping people come to know the Wrangell Mountains, we are building a strong local, national, and international constituency for the protection of wildlands and the enhancement of mountain cultures in Alaska and beyond.
Guiding Principles
The board and staff of the Wrangell Mountains Center evaluate past, present, and future institute activities in light of the following guiding principles:
* We value strong communities: in all our activities we strive to maintain a supportive and cooperative living, working, and learning environment.
* We support diverse modes of perception and expression in our exploration of the relationships between people and place: an interdisciplinary approach that embraces the analytical, artistic, scientific, and spiritual.
* We strive to protect the uniquely wild qualities of this landscape: wilderness is valuable both for its own sake and for the powerful direct experience it offers us.
* We believe in experiential education: we facilitate a learning process of inquiry and discovery through direct contact with the outside environment.
* We are intimate with the Wrangells: we wish to attract and retain a committed, locally-experienced staff.
* We find that attention cultivates compassion: awareness of our natural and social environment is important, and communities thrive when people live with engaged senses.
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