Alaska Wildlands Studies

McCarthy, Alaska   
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve
June 22 through August 10, 2010

The Wrangell Mountains Center offers the Alaska Wildlands Studies Program, accredited through CSU Monterey Bay. Participants enjoy seven weeks of intensive summer field work amid the peaks, glaciers, meadows and forests of the Wrangells wilderness. Participants earn 12 semester units (18 quarter units) of transferable, upper division college credit studying with the support of experienced faculty and our student group. Through rigorous natural history observation, writing, science and the arts, we explore geological, ecological, and cultural processes that shape the Wrangell Mountains. We divide our time between backpacking and camping in the backcountry and basing at the Wrangell Mountains Center in the historic, tiny town of McCarthy in the middle of the Park.  2010 marks our 28th year of Wildlands Studies courses in Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve. We look forward to sharing our summer with a curious, high-spirited group. Join us!

Download the 2010 program description.



photos: Dave Mitchell (l) and Terry Blosser (r)

Apply now for the Summer 2010
Alaska Wildland Studies Program

Download a description of earth science study opportunities in the program.



photo: Jon Campbell, AWS 2009