The mission of the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources is to promote public dialogue about natural resource issues through better journalism.

Since 1995, IJNR has been providing top-quality immersion training programs for environment and natural resource journalists throughout North America.

The mission of the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources is to promote public dialogue about natural resource issues through better journalism

IJNR helps improve coverage of natural resource issues by taking journalists on multi-day, expenses-paid, immersive field trips to locations throughout North America. They believe that the free exchange of ideas, even inconvenient and dissenting ideas, is critical to telling a story truthfully. Over the course of more than 70 institutes, they have designed an experiential learning model that gives journalists an opportunity to gain a fuller understanding of the environment, economic and cultural landscapes underlying the most contentious natural resource issues of the time.