Videos
2026. Meet the Scientist: Chris Armatas
In this video, learn about ALWRI research social scientist, Dr. Chris Armatas and his work with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.
2026. Recreation research in the Rattlesnake
This video features research conducted by a team of ALWRI scientists, the Lolo National Forest, and our local partners in Missoula, Montana, who worked together to study recreation use in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area. Teh team used visitor surveys, GPS devices, and historical data to inform decisions about how to best steward visitor use in the Rattlesnake.
2026. The Wild Next Door 
The Wild Next Door is a 40-minute documentary film that explores some of the complexities of managing high-use, urban-proximate wilderness. Considered through the case of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness outside of Seattle, Washington, the film presents the many perspectives of wilderness management in an alpine landscape, including those of current and former US Forest Service managers, Tribal council members, visitors, scientists, and nonprofit partners. The video also highlights how Tribal leadership and multi-actor collaboration offer opportunities to resolve the most pressing issues facing this beloved landscape.
2024: South Dakota State University women in the hunting and fishing research project 
This video features a project by ALWRI and collaborators at South Dakota State University, who were exploring ways to more effectively train, support, and retain women as active participants in hunting and fishing across the Rocky Mountain region.
2023. CBS News, On The Dot with David Schechter.
In this video, CBS news presenter David Schechter interviews ALWRI's Dr. Sean Parks and colleagues about the effects of a century's worth of fire suppression in America, the build up of fuels that resulted, and the conflagrations that have resulted.
2021. Missoula Fire Sciences Lab Seminar Series. Intersection of climate and wildland fire
In this video, a recording of presentations from the 2021 Fire Lab lecture series "State of the Science on Climate and Wildfire", we hear from ALWRI's Dr. Sean Parks and colleagues on the intersection of climate and wildland fire.
2018. ALWRI's Wild Science: Wilderness and Recreation
This short film, produced by High Plains Films, provides an overview of the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, who together work to strengthen wilderness stewardship through training and science
2016. ALWRI's Wild Science: Wilderness and Climate Change
In this short film, a group of scientists on the Kenai explain how scientific inquiry in wilderness areas is key to unravel the many questions that arise from climate change.
2018. Honoring the Promise: Strengthening wilderness stewardship through training and science
This film, produced by High Plains Films, provides an overview of the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, who together work to strengthen wilderness stewardship through training and science.
2017. Wild Science: Wilderness and Fire
Through this film, you will learn how the study of wilderness fire science is critical to understandinging the complex nature of forest fires and to informing natural resource management across all landscapes.