

Parks Stewardship Forum
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based Conservation
Co-Published by
the University of California, Berkeley
and the George Wright Society
The University of California, Berkeley and the George Wright Society have joined forces to create an interdisciplinary open-access journal to serve the global stewards o fparks, protected/conserved areas, cultural sites, and other forms of place-based conservation —the people at the forefront of conserving the special places most crucial to safeguarding the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
Parks Stewardship Forum continues—and significantly expands upon—the nearly 40-year publishing record of The George Wright Forum, which from 1981 through 2018 served as the George Wright Society’s journal of parks, protected areas, and cultural sites. Since its inception in 2020, Parks Stewardship Forum content has been requested over 275,000 times.
Like its predecessor, Parks Stewardship Forum explores innovative thinking and offers enduring perspectives on critical issues across the whole spectrum of place-based heritage management and stewardship. It is the only professional conservation journal with an interdisciplinary focus, publishing insights from all fields related to parks, protected/conserved areas, cultural sites, and other forms of place-based conservation.
Parks Stewardship Forum is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Interested in publishing with us? We welcome proposals. There is an option for contributors to have their papers peer reviewed. View our complete submission guidelines here.
The current issue:
May 2026
You can find PSF On the University of California’s eScholarship platform at https://escholarship.org/uc/psf. This site is designed for scholarly reference and use, with articles readable and downloadable in press-quality PDF format accompanied by DOIs.
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