Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship Grant

Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The Wilderness Society
Amount: US $25,000
Last Updated: January 30, 2026

Summary

The Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship encourages graduate students to contribute to wilderness protection, honoring Gloria Barron's legacy. The Wilderness Society prioritizes projects addressing climate change and equitable access to public lands. Applicants must be enrolled in a U.S. graduate program, possess strong academic qualifications, and focus on long-term wilderness conservation. Research proposals on biodiversity, climate adaptation, and social-ecological contexts are particularly welcome, aiming for inclusive and impactful conservation efforts.

Overview

Background The Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship seeks to encourage individuals who have the potential to make a significant positive difference in understanding wilderness and how to protect it. The scholarship is available to current qualified graduate students. It was created in honor of Gloria Barron, a dedicated educator and tireless advocate for wilderness protection. TWS is an equal opportunity employer and actively works to ensure fair treatment of our employees and constituents across culture, socioeconomic status, race, marital or family situation, gender, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, physical ability, veteran status or sexual orientation. As an organization, we aspire to being inclusive in the work that we do and in the kind of organization we are. Internally, this means working as a team that listens to different points of view, recognizes the contributions of every employee, and empowers each employee to bring their whole selves to work every day. Externally, this means ensuring that public lands are inclusive and welcoming so that our shared wildlands can help people and nature to thrive. We are committed to equity throughout our work, which we define as our commitment to realizing the promise of our public lands and ensuring that all can share in their universal benefits. Grant Priorities The Wilderness Society recently completed a strategic plan that identified two priorities: Make public lands a solution to the climate and extinction crises by securing a resilient, continental network of landscapes and eliminating climate-changing emissions, and Transform conservation policy and practice so all people benefit equitably from public lands. Within this context, we are particularly interested in research projects that focus on one of three areas: Conservation on and management of Bureau of Land Management landsConservation of Old Growth ForestsConservation in the Arctic. Proposals that focus on one of these three areas will be given priority. Within these three areas, research proposals can address topics as wide as biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the social and ecological context of landscape conservation, among others.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants for the Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship must: Be currently enrolled in an accredited graduate institution in the United States at the time of applicationHave strong academic qualifications;Have academic and/or career goals focused on making a significant positive difference in the long-term protection of wilderness in the United States.