Significant wilderness qualities: can they be identified and monitored?

The third Research Colloquium, sponsored by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), convened the week of August 10-15 in the Popo Agie Wilderness, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. The purpose of these colloquia is to facilitate interaction and discussion between wilderness managers, researchers, and NOLS personnel in a wilderness setting. At each colloquium, discussion centers around a selected theme. For the third colloquium, participants were asked to write a short paper on the theme. This report is a compilation of those papers, along with a synopsis of discussions held during the colloquium.