"Reinventing Nature/Recovering the Wild" is the theme of an Oct. 22-24 UC Davis conference intended to help define national and international public-policy goals in the study of wild areas as well as to encourage long-term land management policy. With the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations and cooperation among public and private institutions, the meeting will draw from four areas of scholarship -- environmental history, ecological philosophy, the art and literature of nature and the study of biodiversity and bioregionalism. To be held at the Silo Union, the conference is sponsored by the UC Davis Program in Nature and Culture, the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Davis Humanities Research Institute, among others.