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How Wild Is Wilderness? Emma Marris At UW

Science and environment writer Emma Marris will give a seminar tonight on the University of Wyoming campus.

Emma Marris is the author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. In the book she says, through climate change and other factors, humans have impacted every spot on the globe, so we may need to rethink what wilderness and nature mean.  

She says her latest project is thinking about whether wolves can still be considered wild.

"Currently I’m working on a project about wolves in the West," she says. "I’m interested not so much in whether there should be wolves or shouldn’t be wolves, but about what it means to have a GPS collar on a wolf, to know where it is all the time, to have scientists who get text messages from wolves. And what that says about our definition of wild."

Tonight’s public seminar is called Rambunctious Gardening in Action. It will be at 7 p.m. in the Berry Center on the University of Wyoming campus.

Erin Jones is Wyoming Public Radio's cultural affairs producer, as well as the host and senior producer of HumaNature. She began her audio career as an intern in the Wyoming Public Radio newsroom, and has reported on issues ranging from wild horse euthanization programs to the future of liberal arts in universities. Her audio work has been featured on WHYY Philadelphia’s The Pulse and the podcast Out There.
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