About the Wilderness Medicine Newsletter

The Wilderness Medicine Newsletter started life in 1988 as a paper newsletter. Mailed out bi-monthly it was designed to keep Wilderness First Responders and Wilderness Emergency Medical Technicians up to date with the changing world of wilderness medicine.

In 2002 the WMN went through a transformation and changed to a digital format becoming a full-color online journal reaching a larger, more global audience. The content of the WMN was expanded considerably, but subscribers had to print out and save past issues in order to refer back to them.

In 2011 the WMN went through another transformation. More subscribers wanted to have access to back issues, so we changed the yearly subscription to include access to issues dating back to 2002, the date at which the Newsletter became digital.

As our readership evolved we found that the site use was changing, readers were not necessarily reading new issues as they came out, but were instead searching the site for articles that interested them or that answered specific questions. To better respond to the way the site was being used, in 2014 we added better search features and made the site scalable so that it could be more easily read on portable devices.

As the number of articles passed the 200 mark and the number and background of readers broadened, we felt that charging a yearly subscription for a site where most of the content was static did not feel right, so in 2016 we did away with the renewal process, new subscribers still pay $15 but get a lifetime subscription.

Subscribers can search the WMN by content or category for articles on a wide range of treatments for injuries, diseases, and prevention techniques, a resource that we continue to add to and update. With lifetime subscription rates just $15 we feel that it is an exceptional value for an extraordinary resource.