Wild places are important in and of themselves. Round River is dedicated to the conservation of those increasingly rare vast landscapes, their inherent wildness and the ecological complexity that sustains them and inspires us. We employ the principles of conservation biology to provide our partners well-founded scientific basis for their long-term conservation efforts. The edict of Aldo Leopold’s Round River, in the face of global climate challenges, today rings ever truer. Fundamental to our work is the vitality of local cultures and communities requiring comprehensive approaches to capture the ecologies that sustain these systems. We also believe wild landscapes are powerful educators, and our environmental study abroad programs involve small groups of students in finding and implementing solutions to wildlife conservation and sustainability challenges.