By Roger Kaye, Polly Napiryuk Andrews, and Bernadette Dimientieff, with artwork by
Rewilding Leadership Council Member Roger Kaye

Roger Kaye
Roger Kaye has worked for the USFWS in Alaska for 41 years, as a planner, pilot, Native liaison and in recent years, as the agency's Alaska wilderness coordinator. He has a Ph.D from the University of Alaska where he has taught courses on wilderness, environmental psychology, and the Anthropocene.
He is the author of Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and numerous journal and popular articles related to wilderness. Currently, he is working on a book considering the future of the wildness of Wilderness in the Anthropocene.
Roger's Articles on Rewilding.org

Wilderness and Traditional Indigenous Beliefs: Conflicting or Intersecting Perspectives on the Human-Nature Relationship?

The Legacy and Lessons of Celia Hunter
By Roger Kaye Celia Hunter’s legacy as a tenacious champion of against-all-odds

Wildness: What is it? Why should our conservation agencies perpetuate it?
By Roger Kaye What is this evocative and elusive landscape quality, wildness?

Wilderness in the Anthropocene: What Future for its Untrammeled Wildness?
By Roger Kaye My aim in addressing this question is three-fold: