About Randall.

Randall K. Wilson is a professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on environmental policy, natural resource management, sustainable communities, and the geography of the American West.

His research examines the relationship between local communities and natural resource management. In particular, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on community-based natural resource management as practiced in national parks, forests, and other forms of public land in the United States. Other research centers on the theme of rural transformation and includes studies of farmers’ markets, environmental planning, and the impacts of sprawl in rural Pennsylvania. On campus, he serves as faculty advisor for Painted Turtle Farm (the student-run organic campus garden), a founding member of the Campus Sustainability Advisory Committee, and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Eisenhower Institute. Off campus, he has served on the US Forest Service National Science Panel, the Board of Directors for the Rural Geography Research Group within the Association of American Geographers and earned a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Vienna. His book, America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews and the winner of the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers.