The Wild Cascades The Journal of the North Cascades Conservation Council Winter 2006–2007

Remembering Harvey Manning 1925–2006

Join us March 23: NCCC Celebrates 50 Years, 1957–2007 The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007   he North Cascades Conservation TCouncil was formed in 1957 “To pro- tect and preserve the North Cascades’ sce- nic, scientific, recreational, educational, and wilderness values.” Continuing this mission, NCCC keeps government officials, THE WILD CASCADES  Winter 2006–2007 environmental organizations, and the gen- eral public informed about issues affecting the Greater North Cascades Ecosystem. In This Issue Action is pursued through legislative, legal, and public participation channels to protect the lands, waters, plants and 3 The President’s Report — Marc Bardsley wildlife. Over the past third of a century the 4 Where the Cascades Meet the Sea — Ken Wilcox NCCC has led or participated in campaigns to create the North Cascades National Park 6 Remembering Harvey Manning, 1925–2006 Complex, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and other units of the National Wilderness 9 The Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking & Griping Society, 1968–2006 — Ted System from the W.O. Douglas Wilderness Beck and Pat Goldsworthy north to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness, the Chelan- 0 annual Summer Outings of the Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking & Griping Sawtooth Wilderness and others. Among its most dramatic victories has been work- Society — Ted Beck and Pat Goldsworthy ing with British Columbia allies to block the raising of Ross Dam, which would have 4 Prospects Brighten for Wild Sky Passage — Rick McGuire drowned Big Beaver Valley.

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8 USFS Salvage Logging Plan: 2800 Acres — Tom Hammond The NCCC is supported by member dues and private donations. These support 19 Proposed Radio Upgrades Threaten Park and National Forest Integrity publication of The Wild Cascades and lob- — Tom Hammond bying activities. (NCCC is a non-tax-deduct- ible 501(c)4 organization.) Membership Remembering Karen Fant — Norm Winn, The Mountaineer dues for one year are: $10 low income/student 20 50–Year Celebration of North Cascades Conservation Council Invitation $20 Regular —You’re Invited! — Ken Wilcox $25 Family $50 Contributing COVER: $100 Patron Surrounded by lupine, Harvey Manning rests in the Goat Rocks. $1000 sustaining A one-time life membership dues payment — Larry Hanson is $500. The Wild Cascades  Journal of the North Cascades Conservation Council The North Cascades Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, supports the NCCC’s Editors: Betty Manning and Carolyn McConnell nonpolitical efforts. Donations are tax-de- ductible. Please make your check(s) out Editorial Board: Tom Hammond and Rick McGuire to the organization of your choice. The Printing by EcoGraphics Foundation can be reached through NCCC mailing address: The Wild Cascades is published three times a year (Spring, Summer/Fall, Winter). NCCC members receive this journal. Address letters, comments, send articles to: North Cascades Conservation Council P.O. Box 95980 The Wild Cascades Editor University Station North Cascades Conservation Council Seattle, WA 98145-2980 University Station, Seattle, WA 98145-2980 NCCC Website www.northcascades.org

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President Marc Bardsley Founded in 1957 Board Chairman SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Patrick Goldsworthy

Vice President Charles Ehlert The President’s Report Winter 2006–2007 Treasurer Tom Brucker Not long after I became president of this organization, Harvey Manning began Secretary sending me letters on a wide variety of subjects that seemed to have just popped Phil Zalesky into his head. He wrote these letters to people with his museum-quality manual typewriter on the back of envelopes or the blank side of bills and junk mail. He pushed the envelope on recycling. Often my letter would be a smudged Bruce Barnbaum carbon of something that had gone to some other NCCC member. Despite the Jim Davis lack of sophisticated media presentations, the content of these letters was fas- cinating. The topics were often rambling but never boring communiqués that Polly Dyer could be on virtually any subject, from trails to national politics. I could never John Edwards understand why an author of Harvey’s stature would use his time to bring me up to speed on the latest things racing through his mind. At first I thought he Dave Fluharty wanted me to somehow take action on these matters. But then, I realized — I didn’t have a clue. And that was what he was trying to tell me. Karl Forsgaard With Harvey’s passing, I have spent a lot of time reviewing our relationship. Kevin Geraghty He was not really interested in what I could do about some administration’s policies or how we could raise money for a particular project. What Harvey Tom Hammond had in mind, it seems, was to force me and others to think out of the box on Phil Leatherman issues of far more importance than the latest skirmish with the Forest Service or whoever. I think that he was establishing a legacy for the radical thinking Conway Leovy that was always his forte. He was a guy who was able to see the big picture, figure out what the long-range approach should be, and then articulate his Betty Manning message in written form. It is unlikely that there will ever be another one like Carolyn McConnell Harvey, able to use Shakespeare, the Classics, and his own wit to cut a pompous bureaucrat down to size. The best we can hope for is a core group of people Rick McGuire with the will to stay on the cutting edge of the movement. When I look back on Thom Peters the truly important things Harvey was able to accomplish with his typewriter and attitude, it makes me more determined than ever to do what I can to carry Ken Wilcox on with the same spirit. If only a few of us had his way with words.

Laura Zalesky From now on, let’s all think in the same vein as the ubiquitous bumper stick- ers adored by faith-based believers. WWHD — What Would Harvey Do?

The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007   Where the Cascades Meet the Sea

by Ken Wilcox

n the Summer 2006 issue of The Wild Cas- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife region for marbled murrelets, a threatened cades, Harvey Manning shared a concise land, and 4,800 acres of DNR land on that seabird that nests only in big old trees, most Ihistory of land protection on state lands, gem known as Blanchard Mountain. There of which are far inland (where most of the meager as it is, and advised us all to “Take a are also a few thousand acres of private forest remaining old growth is). look at the 2006 map of public land owner- land, some with relatively high ecological and Migrating raptors, turkey vultures, and a ship in the state.” And then, he said, “Do a bit recreational values. Some of the latter could host of neotropical migrant birds like warblers of dreaming.” be acquired to complete a more perfect whole. and flycatchers use the area for nesting or If you look at that map carefully, you find In total, it’s a 10,000-acre wild place. feeding. Once, while munching lunch atop that on the coast just south of Bellingham By comparison, the DNR’s West Tiger a spectacular hundred-foot-high sandstone lies what may be the finest opportunity in Mountain Natural Resources Conservation cliff on the Raptor Ridge Trail, we watched the greater Puget Sound region for that bit Area extends across 4,500 acres, or roughly ravens, vultures, eagles, red-tails, and marsh of dreaming. half of the 10,000-acre “preserve” known as hawks fly over while a pygmy owl tooted at The area is best known as the Chuckanut the Issaquah Alps. Adjacent to that, another us from behind. Mountains, and it includes a 4,800-acre for- 10,000-acre block of DNR land is managed There is much prime habitat here for est on Blanchard Mountain that is managed primarily for timber. If we had that much western toads, a species that has declined by the Washington Department of Natural DNR land at Blanchard, we could probably precipitously over the past decade. A sensi- Resources (DNR). This coastal urban wildland tolerate chain saws buzzing across two-thirds tive bat species spends its winter hibernation covers nearly ten thousand acres and lies of it. But we don’t. It’s 4,800 acres and it’s all hanging out in caves and crevices at the base of smack between two of the state’s fastest grow- special. It needs to be saved. As various maps Blanchard’s 300-foot high cliffs. We have rare ing population centers — Mount Vernon-Bur- and an hour or two of study make clear, there moths and butterflies here, as well as rubber lington and Bellingham. It’s the kind of place is nothing else on the entire east shore of the boas and alligator lizards. A rare cougar or that other medium or large cities in America greater Puget Sound region that even comes black bear is known to ramble through. Eager would die for if they knew what we had. Think close to what we have here. beavers have helped engineer an extensive Issaquah Alps on the sea. It’s that good. Geographically and geologically, the matrix of ponds linked to numerous natural In one contiguous block of wannabe future Chuckanuts are anomalous: the only place lakes and wetlands. ancient forest, there are almost 1,500 acres of in the Cascade Range, from Canada to There are rare plant communities, car- city and county parkland, 2,800 acres of state northern California, where the foothills of nivorous plants, an extremely rare lichen, and park (Larrabee), a couple hundred acres of the mountains extend all the way to the sea. some impressive and maturing forests that The Chuckanut Mountains, have naturally regenerated since they were including Blanchard, are, first logged in the early 1900s — quite unlike by far, the least populated the single-species Douglas-fir plantations that and least developed coastal dominate other cut-over lands in the region. A area of its size anywhere patch of old-growth forest also remains, with from Vancouver to Tumwa- a few trees up to nine feet in diameter. ter. From space, it actually Imperiled salmon and steelhead use many looks dark here at night. It of the area’s creeks. Grebes and loons winter is also within an area known in near-shore marine waters where shellfish as the Puget Lowland Forest beds are also regionally significant. Grey Ecoregion that includes all whales and sea lions are occasional visitors. of the once-forested low- In fact, one could make a pretty good argu- lands from the Fraser River ment that protecting Blanchard Mountain and to the Columbia — an area the rest of the Chuckanuts would contribute that the World Wildlife Fund substantially to the Governor’s Partnership considers to be in “criti- for Puget Sound, which among other things cal” need of new protected is supposed to support “priority projects to areas. As a stressful drive restore damaged forests, rivers, shorelines, along I-5 will attest, the vast and marine waters.” Of course, we can spend majority of this ecoregion millions (or billions) of dollars restoring has been severely changed the places we’ve mucked up already, or we from pre-settlement times. can spend far less just taking care of those The best of what’s left, it few good places that are still intact — like turns out, is right there in Blanchard Mountain and the Chuckanuts. the Chuckanuts. Publicly owned park land in the Chuckanuts Wildlife habitats are di- is spread out in an amorphous blob with some verse and significant. The weird tentacles, but it’s reasonably secure. The area supports the only private lands, of course, are not and will likely known coastal nesting area remain in active commercial forestry, at least in the greater Puget Sound over the short run. Most of the land owned

  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 by timber companies has been logged during The Blanchard agreement the past two or three decades, and there is appears to stand little chance pressure there and on neighboring Lookout of winning broader acceptance and Galbraith Mountains to the east of I-5 to by the public. Bottom line: the turn some of these lands over to private de- battle over Blanchard Moun- velopment. Hopefully, the legislature can be tain marches on. persuaded to help purchase a few key parcels The answer to the Blanchard to add to the parks. question might just be what Unlike public park lands in the Chuckanuts, Harvey alluded to in his recent the bulk of Blanchard Mountain (all of which article: a new Natural Resource is in Skagit County) is not at all secure for Conservation Area, or NRCA. public use and enjoyment into the future. Trust status of the lands in- In fact, the DNR intends to intensify logging volved may require a creative activity there later this year and next, unless land exchange as part of the the public convinces them to do otherwise. deal, but it’s entirely feasible Logging roads will penetrate the wilder road- in a region of the state that is less portions, crossing numerous trails, and bereft of designated NRCAs. otherwise disrupting a prized recreational In mainland King and Sno- experience for tens of thousands of trail us- homish Counties, for example, ers annually. more than 42,000 acres of Most of the environmental and economic NRCAs have been established, benefits — and they are substantial — of including West Tiger Mountain, protecting Blanchard Mountain in its natu- Mount Si, Rattlesnake Moun- ral state have not been seriously studied or tain, Grieder Ridge, Morning acknowledged by DNR. Although the agency Star, and Mount Pilchuck. In and Conservation Northwest, based in Bell- Skagit County, the total acre- ingham, cooperated on a fiscal impact study age of designated NRCAs on several years ago to explore the benefits of the mainland is zero. Whatcom logging versus not logging Blanchard, the County has one NRCA totalling study was glaringly incomplete, the results a whopping 137 acres. predictably skewed in favor of logging. In the two northern counties where the Maps — Chris Behee A recent effort to bring loggers and conser- DNR maintains an enormous land base, one vationists to the table to work out a compro- would imagine that something more than dential Medal of Freedom and an honorary mise appears to have failed at the group’s final 137 acres might be worthy of protection. knighthood from Great Britain for his ground- meeting in early January of this year. Although NRCA-designated land in Whatcom and Skagit breaking journalism, spent his boyhood years loggers and Conservation Northwest sup- Counties amounts to three-tenths of 1 percent playing and hiking in the woods on Blanchard ported a loose agreement laid on the table at of what’s been set aside in Snohomish and Mountain. that meeting, many, if not most, activists who King Counties. Something’s wrong with that To learn more, contact Ken (marmotlegs@ have been dogging the Blanchard issue for the picture. yahoo.com) or browse the maps, photos, and last fifteen years are not biting. While not op- You can help by telling DNR, as well as your more at these two websites: posed to some logging, the pro-conservation own state legislators (who may be asked to www.blanchardmountain.org conservationists (as opposed to the quid-pro- support the Blanchard agreement), that the quo conservationists) believe the process itself current pro-logging agreement for Blanchard www.chuckanutmpd.org forced an outcome that strongly (and unfairly) does not even come close to representing favored timber interests. the public interest in long-term management Language in the agreement that some may of this unique place. The lore, according to find stunning includes a requirement that con- Harvey, says that Blanchard was once known servationists begin lobbying our legislators to as Elephant Mountain. It’s a fitting maintain, or preferably, increase logging in lo- name, given how difficult it’s been cal forests, not just on state lands managed by to get the DNR to budge. DNR, but on private lands as well, and not just So visit the place. Take a little at Blanchard, but potentially everywhere. time to explore, whether by trail, or In exchange for a small and weakly protect- from the slow lane along Chuckanut ed 1,600-acre-maximum “core area” (where Drive, or from the DNR road to the new roads and limited logging would still be spectacular overlook above Samish allowed), conservationists would also have Bay. Look for the elephant. That to accept a policy of increased timber harvest ought to help make it clear why this on National Forest lands where logging was area deserves to be designated an severely curtailed more than a decade ago to NRCA or perhaps even a new state protect the spotted owl and to help recover park. Maybe we could call it Edward some battered federal forests. It’s a little like R. Murrow State Park (assuming the a local organic grocer being asked to support family agrees). It’s a little known the opening of a Wal-mart. fact that Murrow, awarded the Presi- Blanchard sun. —Ken Wilcox

The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007   Remembering Harvey Manning 1925–2006

All of us who love America’s “I turned up Oyster Creek, “Wilderness Alps” — those gor- the incongruously small geous mountains in our own dribble that issues from the backyard, otherwise known as disproportionately grand the North Cascades — have lost cleft that separates Blanchard a legend. Harvey Manning, best Hill from Chuckanut Moun- known as the author of the 100 tain. Its little delta was a pig Hikes series of hiking guides pub- farm. The swine rushed out lished by the Mountaineers, died snuffling and oinking, re- in November at the age of 81. strained by the electric wire from offering me a warmer I first met Harvey at a wilderness welcome. I wondered how conference in Seattle in the early it would be to eat our dogs 1980s. He sat quietly in the back …and take our pigs walking.” of the room. I was almost too ner- vous to introduce myself. There —Harvey Manning, he was, the legend, sitting right Walking the Beach there, talking to no one. When to Bellingham (1986) I did introduce myself, within seconds he had me feeling like an My first encounter with old friend. Harvey came years before I knew I soon joined the board of who, or what, he was. As a teen- directors of the North Cascades ager in Everett, Washington, I Conservation Council, which was fascinated by the impressive Harvey had belonged to since mountains visible to the east and shortly after its founding in 1957. distressed by the frantic pace at Co-founder David Brower would which the forests cloaking their attend meetings on occasion and slopes were being ripped away. with him and Manning and other Even more alarming was the calm Northwest conservation greats acceptance of their liquidation that huddled together in a living room prevailed at the time. “Yeah, kid, somewhere, all I could do as the those woods up in those moun- —Tom Miller board’s newbie was keep my tains there are for logging.” That mouth shut. them as parks and wilderness areas. He wrote pretty much summed up the attitude of those In early 1989, I invited Harvey to be our beautifully, with true insight, and a kind of times. In a back drawer of the Everett library, guest speaker at a meeting of the Bellingham humor that could rattle your bones. And he I stumbled upon issues of The Wild Cascades. Mountaineers, a couple of years after his book revealed an impressive knowledge of classical In those pages I found writings of the “Irate Walking the Beach to Bellingham was pub- literature and world history behind almost Birdwatcher,” who decried the ongoing de- lished. “What do you want me to talk about?” everything he said or wrote. struction of those dark, mysterious forests. It he asked. I had no idea. I just wanted others Harvey brought us the mountaineering bi- was a revelation. There actually were other to have a chance to meet the man. ble known as Mountaineering: Freedom of the people out there who thought that forests Harvey had an edge and some people dis- Hills, which led to creation of Mountaineers shouldn’t just be cut down. Who thought liked it. But it was a loving edge that was easily Books. He wrote compelling text for coffee- that wild places should stay wild, and wrote misunderstood. It was love for the wildness table wilderness books with photographers about them informatively, eloquently and with that was being destroyed by the timber beasts Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, Bob and Ira Spring, sometimes savage wit. and the miners and developers and the politi- Pat O’Hara, and many others. He wrote the It wasn’t until years later that I learned that cians they all carried around in their pockets. old-fashioned way: on a typewriter, correc- the Irate Birdwatcher was the real person Harvey put it all on the table and demanded tions scribbled in the margins, and always on named Harvey Manning, and still more years that we learn to be sensible, or else. the back side of used paper. until I came to know Harvey as a friend. From He wrote dozens of books, many of them Harvey Manning’s books may have helped the vantage point of today, it’s sometimes presumed to be hiking guides. But mostly bring me to the North Cascades, but it was his hard to imagine what the Cascades were like they were personal invitations to those who passion for the planet that helped bring me as recently as the 1970s. There was more might go to these places and care about them, to my senses. I will miss him. wild country, but it was being consumed at a breakneck pace. Fleets of logging trucks, defend them from the exploiters, help save —Ken Wilcox   The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 on the Metro,” was his idea, which led in words better than Harvey, and it’s unlikely to the preservation of much of the anyone else ever will. He had some of the “Issaquah Alps,” which until he gave expository talent of a Henry James, though them that name were just a bunch of more economical with words. His ability to neglected foothills bypassed on the cut through fog and make the overlooked way to more famous beauty spots. seem obvious was reminiscent of Noam Harvey was the first conservation- Chomsky. He had a great sense of the relative ist to push for “saving the second importance of things, and his own unique, growth,” taking back and re-wilding hard-hitting style. It was always a pleasure to areas that had been logged but then read anything written by Harvey, something left alone for decades, growing back notably lacking in many modern-day hiking on their own into respectable forests. guides published solely as business ventures. That cause was taken up enthusiasti- It’s hard to put forth any opinions on what cally by others, leading to efforts to his greatest work was, but my own favorite is preserve low-elevation forests in the The Wild Cascades — Forgotten Parkland, proposed Wild Sky Wilderness, the the 1965 Sierra Club coffee table picture book Middle Fork Snoqualmie and Pratt that did so much to put the Cascades on the River valleys, and the Mountains to national map. The book is much more than Sound Greenway. pictures, though. The chapter “Low Valley,” probably did more than any other piece of Trails were always one of Harvey’s writing to awaken public appreciation of main concerns. He and Ira Spring in- the forests that were then being so rapidly troduced generations of hikers to the destroyed. And no one has ever described trails of the Cascades, and, thanks in the quintessential Cascades experience bet- large part to Harvey, dozens of miles ter than Harvey did in the short but lovely of new trails were built in such places chapter entitled “Rain Sleep.” The title says as the Issaquah Alps. He was a lead- Harvey and Betty, Mt. Athabaska, Columbia Ice it all. Rain Sleep. That phrase alone is one ing proponent of new trails, but only Fields, 1950. —Tom Miller of the best two-word poems ever written in in what he considered appropriate any language. places. Harvey was a great defender most carrying just three or four giant logs, of “blank spots on the map,” untouched places Those of us who were lucky to know Harvey highballed back and forth from the mountains with no trails at all, and was against the pro- will always miss him, and forever ask our- to the mills. It was a common occurence to posed Pratt connector trail for that reason. selves, “what would Harvey do?” return to a favorite place and find a wasteland. Harvey loved the idea of trails to wilderness- —Rick McGuire Every year the view from Everett was less of edge vantage points (such as the proposed dark green forest and more of clearcuts, all the Harvey Manning is one of my heroes. “Garfield Balconies” trail in the Middle Fork He backpacked since the 1930s, and he wrote more shockingly visible when winter snows Snoqualmie, and many others,) while keep- outlined their rectangular blocks. many books of great importance to the hik- ing the interiors of wild areas inviolate. “Just ing, mountaineering and conservation com- It was disheartening to learn that the plan outside, looking in,” was how he described munities. He was a climbing instructor for was to cut down all of the trees. Not just his idea of the perfect trail. The Mountaineers in the 1950s, and then he some of them, but pretty much all of them, It was often not easy dealing with Harvey. chaired the editorial committee that produced just about everywhere. The North Cascades Expecting much of himself and of others, he the textbook Mountaineering: The Freedom National Park had been designated in 1968, a did not suffer fools or frauds gladly. He could of the Hills, first published in 1964. That book great victory that Harvey played a large role spot a phony a mile away. Nothing infuriated was such an unexpected success that The in, but the politics of that era dictated that him more than “sheep in wolves’ clothing,” Mountaineers Books was born, with its 100 the boundaries were drawn not to include as he referred to faux-conservation efforts, Hikes guidebook series produced by Harvey but to exclude forests, boundaries that Har- intended not to accomplish anything real on and his long-time collaborator, Ira Spring. vey would later write “looked like they were the ground, but to harvest money from foun- Their 100 Hikes books were instrumental in drawn by a madman.” But Harvey was not dations or other well-intentioned but naive stopping the loss of trails after World War II, content with those boundaries, or any others, groups or individuals. He hated the idea of and set the standard for hiking guidebooks and redoubled his efforts to keep the forests focus group-driven campaigns, “messaging everywhere. Harvey also wrote the popular from being chopped down. Eventually, thanks consultants,” and the ever-growing bureau- instruction guide Backpacking: One Step at to unceasing efforts by irate people, many of cracy of professional environmental organiza- a Time in 1972. them inspired by Harvey, sanity gained the tions. He was a volunteer, start to finish, and Harvey’s books continue to introduce upper hand and the cut on the Mount Baker did all he did because of no other reason than Snoqualmie National Forest was drastically people to some of the most beautiful country he thought it needed to be done. Conservation in the world and exhort people to protect reduced just before all of the old growth was was never a business proposition for Harvey. wiped out. these lands for future generations. “Environ- He called things the way he saw them and mental impact is a central concern of our or- But Harvey never rested on any laurels, and never worried about making enemies, or what ganization,” said Helen Cherullo, Publisher of kept rising to new challenges right up until the others thought of him. Perhaps he went a bit Mountaineers Books. “One of our trademarks day he died, a trait he shared with his good far on one or two occasions. He was never, is the ethic first promoted by Harvey Manning friend Dave Brower. Not content with protect- ever, boring. and Ira Spring — that it is not enough to hike ing only “deep” wilderness in the Cascades, he Above all, he was a superb writer. He could responsibly. It is also incumbent upon us to was the first promoter of “shallow” wilderness lay out information concisely, but was no mere in nearby, easily accessible places. “Wilderness technician. No one has rendered the Cascades Continued on page 8 The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007   Remembering Harvey Manning 1925–2006

Continued from page 7 definition of stupid, but the flock understand the environmental is- is pretty smart, does a good job of sues and become an active voice to managing the chicken business,” protect and save the wilderness.” Harvey recently wrote. “I became distrustful of my personal opinions, Harvey has done great things for became a strong supporter and ad- wildlands protection, and you have vocate of the party line. That is what probably hiked in and cherished my forewords have been.” Current the wildness of places that Harvey and future generations of hikers are helped keep wild. In 1957 he joined fortunate to have someone fighting the North Cascades Conservation so tenaciously on their behalf. Council and learned activism from NCCC Board members such as Dave Reprinted from the Brower, Polly Dyer, and Grant McCo- Washington Trails Association nnell. In the 1960s Harvey wrote The newsletter North Cascades (with Tom Miller) —Karl Forsgaard and The Wild Cascades: Forgotten Parkland, publicizing the area’s to put natural beauty — both of which were First, the backstory you in the picture for the tales that instrumental in establishing North follow: I first met Harvey in 1953 at Cascades National Park in 1968. He the time Erik Karlsson, Tom Miller, edited the 1971 book Alpine Lakes, Bob Grant, Mike Hane, and I were which helped convince President embarking on what became the Ford to sign the bill creating that ‘Second Ptarmigan Traverse’. Except Wilderness. Washington state’s Sena- for Mike, who had just finished high tors and Representatives were given school, we were all undergraduates copies of Harvey’s 1984 book Wash- at the University of Washington ington Wilderness: The Unfinished (Erik and I, forestry; Bob, geology; Work, helping to establish much Tom, engineering). Shortly after new Wilderness that year, includ- I began graduate work at UW a ing the Henry M. Jackson, Indian few years later, my wife and family Heaven, Juniper Dunes and Wil- moved to Cougar Mountain. Those liam O. Douglas Wilderness areas. Harvey, cooling his feet on the patio and promoting the “Footsore” early years (1957–1962) on the His 100 Hikes books have played a book series. —Vicki Spring mountain and the long friendship crucial role in protecting these and with Harvey and Betty profoundly other wildlands. He continued his vigorous plummeting finances. Harvey loudly rejoined shaped my life, personally, professionally, advocacy until his death, battling against com- WTA and its Issues Committee, adding his and environmentally. Many all-night home- mercialization, privatization, motorization, energy to our turnaround effort, and WTA brew discussions broadened and clarified my and other dangers to wildlands. He and his has been getting better ever since. It was a thinking on everything from aerodynamics to wife Betty long served as editors of NCCC’s pleasure to have Harvey and Ira at my dinner- McCarthy-era politics. Harvey had no patience excellent journal The Wild Cascades (truth be table meetings. Harvey introduced me to the with empty rhetoric or feel-good expressions; told, Betty did most of the editorial work, with boards of the Greenway Trust, Issaquah Alps one was induced to sift, refine, and winnow Harvey contributing material. Betty continues Trails Club and NCCC. Later he and Ira wrote until a meaningful thought finally emerged, the work). a series of columns for Washington Trails As- and that process worked in both directions. Harvey also founded the Issaquah Alps sociation newsletter, providing timely updates Those were precious evenings. Harvey un- Trails Club in 1979, leading hikes, wrangling to hike descriptions in 100 Hikes books that derstood science at a level more basic than with politicians and saving thousands of acres were years away from revision — a great most ‘professional’ scientists (of which I am of lowland forests on Cougar, Squak, Tiger, resource to readers. And in our court battles one); he comprehended the complexity and Taylor and Rattlesnake Mountains, the wild to protect wildlands from off-road vehicle limitations of science and was not bothered by backyard of Seattle-Bellevue urban areas. damage, the lawsuit papers included many of its contradictions — all of which he regarded He wrote of the lowlands and “the wildness Harvey’s ideas. Both hikers and ecosystems as ‘temporary’. within” in his four-volume Footsore series, and have benefited immensely from Harvey’s I retired from the UW faculty nine years in Walking the Beach to Bellingham. Later he informed books, his ceaseless activism, and ago and endured the takeover of Cougar helped launch the Mountains to Sound Green- his principled stands. Mountain by McMansions and development way, linking and protecting green lands along Harvey called the little sermons he wrote until 2003, when we fled to the west side of the I-90 corridor. for the 100 Hikes books “Fighting Forewords” Puget Sound. Since then, contact with Harvey I’m personally grateful to Harvey for the and the name is fitting. Yet he views his became limited to notes and postcards. The help he’s given me over the years. Things advocacy leadership role with humility. “As stories that follow are representative. The were tough in 1992 when I became president an old chicken rancher, I can confirm the Summit Magazine capers are still fun memo- of WTA, with its shrinking membership and observation that individual chickens are the Continued on page 12   The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 The Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking and Griping Society 1968–2006 by Ted Beck & Pat Goldsworthy

More than once, Harvey Manning mentioned The initial objective of the NCCC was “to Beaver Valley. And driving home, they decided the Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking and Griping seek out, solicit, and enlist as members those unanimously that flooding of the “cathedral Society in his guidebooks, but without iden- with a collective intimate knowledge of the of the cedars” would not happen. The subse- tifying its members. In addition to Harvey, details of the assets of Washington’s Cascades,” quent history was a triumph for the NCCC. the organizing chairman, the original group and included Phil and Laura Zalesky from Planning for their trips began early in the consisted of Ted Beck, Dick Brooks, and Pat Everett and Chuck and Marion Hessey from year. Each February Harvey mailed a prospec- Goldsworthy. Naches. Harvey, Ted, and Dick also became tus outlining proposed hikes for the coming early members. The (ultimately successful) A Little Background summer. Depending on distance and terrain, NCCC proposal to create a North Cascades trips (many were cross-country) lasted from Ted and Dick had both hiked and climbed National Park drew in hundreds of support- nine to eleven days. in the Cascades with Harvey from 1947 on. ing members. Menus were varied, but meal planning was Both men were chemical engineers and had set. Dick was breakfast cook and Ted took met Harvey when he manned the chemistry Birdwatcher Travels care of lunch, while Harvey and Pat alternated stockroom in the basement of Bagley Hall at Harvey coined the name. At the start of with dinners. Somehow the dinners seemed the University of Washington. All three took the Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking and Griping to get better and better with each trip, with the Mountaineers climbing course and went Society the members were in their 40s but, as spirited competition between the two cooks. on Mountaineer climbs as well as private Dick Brooks said, “We grew into the name.” Everyone slept under Dick’s big nylon tarp, climbs together — Ted taking time during (Harvey’s daughter Claudia once asked him never condescending to shelter in “little sissy grad school from 1948 to 1952. after a trip, “How many elderly birds did you tents,” as Harvey called them. Even when Ted left the state for nine guys see?”) Harvey’s wit always enlivened the party. years, he and Harvey carried on extensive The group’s first official trip was in August Camped near Mt. Daniel, the group watched correspondence. As well, Ted and his wife, 1968 to Ross Lake and the northern Picketts. a horseman across a pond. The man struggled Ruth, traveled back to Washington to spend They hiked for six days up the Little Beaver on his horse as he tried to drag a spiky log several one-week summer vacations hiking Valley to Challenger Ridge, then down Big he had roped for firewood. No matter which with Harvey and Betty. There were hikes to Beaver. Harvey noted in 100 Classic Hikes in way he dragged, the log’s spikes dug into Spider Pass, Lyman Basin, Buck Creek Loop, Washington, 1998, “Each of us set out sepa- the ground. “That’s how the West was won,” Cascade Pass, Kool Aid Lake, and White Chuck rately on the last day down the Big Beaver.” cracked Harvey. “Aw, shut up,” came the reply Basin, plus climbs of Magic Mountain and In his trip notes he added, “. . . through the from the other side of the pond. Glacier Peak. cathedral of the cedars. We all had the same In the 1950s, Harvey was engaged in his While Ted sojourned out of state, the Dick feeling that never before had we come down first major publication — the monumental and Grace Brooks family and the Mannings from the high country through such mag- Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills. Soon survived a supremely soggy trip. From Stehek- nificence.” after, writing hiking and climbing guides be- in the party traveled to Grizzly Creek, where Upon their return to Ross Lake Resort the came a full-time endeavor. He always carried they became involved in a tremendous rain- men learned that Seattle City Light had plans a pocket notebook and stub of a pencil on storm that came close to wiping them out. to raise Ross Dam by 122½ feet, flooding Big mountain trips and meticulously recorded Ted returned to Seattle in 1961 and times: starting and stopping for rest, the Becks and Mannings made a num- mileage walked, views, flowers, rocks, ber of family trips to the mountains with experiences and thoughts. He said that, the kids. Harvey and Ted continued unlike some other guidebook authors, their annual September weekend in he walked every inch of the way on trips the mountains, stopping when Harvey that he described. organized the Elderly Birdwatchers One outstanding experience was de- Hiking and Griping Society (EBH&GS) scribed as “The Night on Bald Mountain” in 1968. in the Pasayten Wilderness — a night Enter Pat. He and his wife, Jane, ar- that was clear, with blazing Northern rived in Seattle from Berkeley and the Lights and a symphony of coyotes in the Sierra Club in 1952. Pat met Harvey valley below. when he walked over from his Uni- Harvey organized and participated versity of Washington Medical School in the first fifteen trips of the EBH&GS. biochemistry lab to Harvey’s top-floor Then, in 1983, he stopped hiking with office behind the gargoyles of the UW the group after hurting his feet on a administration building, where he draft- beach walk from Tacoma to Seattle. The ed public statements for the university tradition continues, with various mem- president. Pat had fallen in love with the Original members of the Elderly Birdwatchers Hiking & bers joining or leaving: Ted (39 trips), Cascades on his first hike to Cascade Griping Society pause near the west side of Mt. Adams on Dick (30) Pat (23), Roger Colvin (15), Pass and, in 1957, organized the North their 1979 hike around the mountain. From left: Harvey Chuck Allyn (12), Carsten Lien (4), and Cascades Conservation Council. Manning, Pat Goldsworthy, Dick Brooks and Ted Beck. Don Allyn (2). The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007   Annual Summer Outings Elderly Birdwatcher Hiking and Griping Society

1. 1968 — Aug. 9–12 Northern Picketts, Wiley Pk., Little and Big Beavers Be, Br, G, M 2. 1968 — Aug. 8–17 Devils Dome, Jackita Ridge, Crater Mt. loop Be, Br, M 3. 1970 — July 31–Aug. 8 Southern Picketts, Sourdough Mt., Elephant Butte Be, Br, G, M 4. 1971 — Aug. 8–18 Boundary Trail across the Pasayten Wilderness Be, Br, G, M 5. 1972 — Aug. 11–19 Ice Lakes, Mt. Maude, Entiat Basin Be, Br, G, M 6. 1973 — Aug. 9–20 Bear Lake, Custer Ridge, Whatcom Pass loop from Chilliwack Lake Be, Br, G, M 7. 1974 — Aug. 9–18 Robinson Pass, Shellrock Pass, Lost River loop Be, Br, M 8. 1975 — Aug. 8–17 Hanging Gardens Be, Br, G, M A,B 9. 1976 — July 23–Aug. 1 Fisher Basin, Kangaroo Ridge Be, Br, G, M 10. 1977 — July 28–Aug. 4 Around Glacier Peak Be, Br, G, M 11. 1978 — July 27–Aug. 7 High Pass, Napeequa loop Be, Br, G, M 12. 1979 — Sept. 14–24 Around Mt. Adams Be, Br, G, M 13. 1980 — Sept. 10–19 Ladies Pass, Chain Lakes loop Be, Br, M 14. 1981 — Sept. 11–20 Jade Lake, Robin Lakes Be, Br, M 15. 1982 — Sept. 11–19 War Creek, northeast Chelan Crest Be, Br, G, M 16. 1983 — Sept. 1–11 Freezeout Devils Dome Be, Br, G 17. 1984 — Aug. 10–18 Goat Rocks Be, Br, G 18. 1985 — July 12–21 Pasayten, Remmel Lake and Peak Be, Br, G 19. 1986 — Aug. 8–17 Alpine Lakes Be, Br, G 20. 1987 — July 31–Aug. 10 Twisp River high country Be, Br, G 21. 1988 — July 15–24 Hagen, Bacon, Blum Al, Be, Br, G 22. 1989 — Aug. 4–13 Green Mt., Kennedy Hot Springs Be, Br, G 23. 1990 Stevens Pass, Glacier Peak Al, Be, Br, G 24. 1991 — July 26–Aug. 4 Southwest Chelan crest Al, Be, Br, C 25. 1992 — July 17–27 Pasayten, Canada forays Al, Be, Br, G 26. 1993 — Aug. 6–16 Mt. Hood, Oregon loop Be, Br, C, L 27. 1994 — July 22–Aug. 1 Pasayten, Bunker Hill, Whistler Basin Al, Be, Br, C, G 28. 1995 — July 20–31 Glacier Peak, Kennedy Hot Springs, Milk Creek Al, Be, Br, C, G 29. 1996 — July 22–31 Wallowas and Snake River, Oregon Al, Be, Br, C, L 30. 1997 — Aug. 7–17 Slate Peak, middle fork of Pasayten River Be, Br, C, G, L 31. 1998 — Aug. 1–8 Olympics, Elwha River, Queets Basin Al, Be, C 32. 1999 — Aug. 18–27 Mt. Jefferson Wilderness, Oregon Al, Be, C 33. 2000 — Aug. 22–29 Three Sisters, Oregon Al, Be, C, D 34. 2001 — Aug. 20–22 Goat Rocks, aborted because of heavy storm Al, Be, C, D 35. 2002 — Aug. 2–12 Goat Rocks Al, Be, C 36. 2003 — Aug. 8–15 Holden, Lyman Basin, Agnes River Be, C A, B 37. 2004 — April 26–30 Lake Chelan lakeshore Be, C Aug. 2–6 Necklace Valley Be, C A, B 38. 2005 — April 28–May 2 Lake Chelan lakeshore Be, C Aug. 1–6 PCT north, Slate Pass Be, C A, B 39. 2006 — April 26–29 Lake Chelan lakeshore Be, C July 28–Aug. 2 PCT Mt., Adams Be, C

Participants and number of Trips Al: Chuck Allyn, 12 D: Don Allyn, 2 Be: Ted Beck, 39 G: Pat Goldsworthy, 23 Br: Dick Brooks, 30 L: Carsten Lien, 4 C: Roger Colvin, 15 M: Harvey Manning, 15

10  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 Harvey Manning

Dick Brooks

Ted Beck

Pat Goldsworthy

Elderly Birdwatcher Hiking and Griping Society Trips in Washington Cascades 1968–2006

The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007  11 Remembering Harvey Manning 1925–2006

Continued from page 8 salacious (innocuous by today’s standards) rags, with failed zippers, no loft, and too unsigned postcards from wherever he traveled fragile to clean (disgusting, in other words); selling textbooks; the postman would put new ones were either poorly designed or ex- each one into an envelope and add a painfully pensive — sometimes both. One evening we incoherent note denouncing my ‘friends’ and designed (aided by large quantities of Harvey’s their influence on my innocent kids. Harvey home brew) a sleeping system that was to be also liked to leave my name and address on ‘I comprised of tubing and a mask to take the am interested’ signups whenever he traveled heat from breathing and re-circulate it to body Mormon country. Lots of missionaries visited extremities where heat loss is greatest. Using a me and left disappointed. desiccant to recover the moisture from breath- No Name Peak: During a mountain trip in ing, we were able to claim an even higher ef- the Chilliwack Group in August 1959, Har- ficiency of heat recovery for our system. The vey repeatedly expressed annoyance with system would weigh a few ounces and cost the new breed of climbers who obsessed on very little to assemble. Again, Summit Maga- first ascents and ignored the true value of zine was chosen; the article, written by the the mountains. We were camped high on the president of the Cougar Mountaineers (made flank of Glacier II (now Mt. Spickard) with up of the Manning and Cole households), was the nearly vertical face of southeast Mox Peak duly printed. We would have left the stage directly across the valley. Harvey put together laughing at this point except…except a major an imaginary climb up this face, I doctored manufacturer of outdoor equipment (Gerry a map and added dotted lines indicating our Cunningham himself) wrote a scathing letter ‘attempt’ to a photo taken by another member to Summit debunking the notion of any ‘sleep- of our party; Harvey submitted it to Summit ing system’ and earnestly explaining why his Magazine (May l960)— renamed and relo- equipment was the real deal, which, excepting Dick Brooks and Harvey cated as ‘No Name Peak’ (located up Noname price, it was. Of course Harvey couldn’t resist Creek) describing it as “the great wall that the challenge and in the next few months awaits a first ascent”. Harvey hoped to lure letters were posted to Summit Magazine ries; I don’t think the publisher would hold competitive peak-baggers into a frustrating (and published) from all over the Northwest us accountable after 45 years. Others can, search. The article was published under the (Harvey was still traveling the college circuit have, and will speak to Harvey’s accomplish- name Paul Williams (Betty Manning’s father). as a book salesman) purportedly written by ments far more eloquently than any words I It received a flurry of attention until someone Boy Scouts, recreational hikers, climbers, and could offer; however, I will say that the North actually familiar with that area poked a hole in even university research faculty all endorsing Cascades National Park and the Mountains our balloon. Summit paid with free subscrip- the idea, cheering for the ‘little engine that to Sound Greenway owe much to the ‘irate tions in those days, so Betty’s dad got a 3-year could’, or detailing the elegant physics of the birdwatcher’ and the King County Regional subscription to a magazine he’d never heard system, complete with equations. A few such Park on Cougar Mountain (the Issaquah Alps) of. The article almost was published in the letters were actually authentic. owes its very existence to him. (Anyone for AAC Journal, but ‘Paul’ missed the deadline Overt piousness: Harvey was far more than renaming the park after him?) by a week. a man of pranks and outspoken supporter of Home brew: Harvey’s was the worst (other Sleeping system: Of all the adventures I causes, both worthy and whimsical. We all than my own). One long evening in May had with Harvey, the one I remember most have our own examples of times when he 1958, the two of us got hopelessly lost after fondly was our too much home brew and stargazing. I woke ‘sleeping system’. up mid-morning (somehow back at Harvey’s Once again Harvey house) to find that my wife, Lyn, accompanied was on a tirade, by Betty, had bought a coal-miner’s shack and this time against six acres on Cougar Mountain, near the old the high price of Newcastle coalmines. The two of them figured mountain equip- it would cut down the number of sleepovers ment, especially if we lived closer to each other. Harvey im- sleepi ng ba g s. mediately put up a sign on my new dwelling: Our initiation into ‘Coles carried to Newcastle’. The site became mountaineering our home (the coal-miner’s shack was eventu- had been with gen- ally replaced) for 45 years. uine WW2 surplus Mail carriers: Cougar Mountain had but equipment, which one postman in the 1950s — a far-right was really cheap evangelical who stuffed our mailboxes with ($4.50 bought a religious tracts, disapproved of our choices double down bag of magazines (Harvey subscribed to several in 1950). By the far, far left newsletters just to rile him), and late-‘50s these Harvey Manning atop Mt. Persis. —Tom Miller censored postcards. Harvey would send me bags were patched

12  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 showed profound insight and understand- ing of how things should be. My example relates to an occasion when he asked me to accompany him to Glacier Basin to lay to rest the ashes of Ray Riggs. We were to meet Ome Daiber and another mountaineer in the Basin to perform the ritual. A knoll within the basin was selected as an ideal location to place the ashes (the spot is still known to a few of us as ‘Ray’s knoll’). Harvey was never one to be duplicitous. When asked by Ome if he would lead us in prayer in behalf of the deceased, I knew there was no way Harvey would do that, but I also knew he wouldn’t want a confrontation on such an occasion. He looked thoughtful for a few seconds and then suggested that a moment of silence would be more fitting and speak louder than words. And that’s what we did. —Dale Cole

It is such a privilege to be able to share some thoughts about Harvey Manning and what his life, his words and his deeds, has meant to me. In fact I believe it may not be too much to say that, were it not for some basic things I learned from Harvey early on, my whole conservation career might have taken a very different course. In the early 1960s I had just moved to Seattle after graduating from law school in the Midwest. I thought I had landed in paradise. And since I had really chosen to live here for the country, not for any particular job, I immediately signed up to take the Mountaineers Climbing Course — my ticket, I thought, to those magic and beautiful wild mountains, gleaming and beckoning at every turn and from every vantage point of my adopted city. I started climbing and exploring immedi- ately; and for the first year or so, I KNEW this was paradise; “heck, I can climb or backpack to a new place every weekend of my life and still never know it all,” I would often say to myself amid much self-congratulation. But it wasn’t too long before I started real- izing that something was wrong out there — terribly wrong. Trail after trail that I had enjoyed one summer, then dreamed about the following winter, would — when I returned — be just gone, dissolved in a jackstraw heap of mud and slash, the broken bones of the ancient forest giants that once sheltered it sent off to be ripped apart in some mill. I was stunned, outraged — “How can this be? Lookit the map, this is public land!” And I became almost as shocked that many, too many, of my companions — not to men- tion nearly all of the Establishment Class of the times — seemed to be NOT that upset. “Oh, that’s multiple use, something for everybody,” Clockwise from top left: Harvey below Forbidden, 1951; Tumwater Canyon, 1950; Rattlesnake Ledge, 1995; The Illecillewaet Neve, Selkirks, 1951; after climb of Sir Donald, Selkirks, 1950. Continued on page 14 —Tom Miller The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007  13 Remembering Harvey Manning 1925–2006 continued from page 13 to visit my grandparents would be long her- with a kind of bemused acceptance, reserv- they’d say. Or, “ it’s called ‘harvesting those alded. He would come in his outrageous ing judgment until later. We started climbing decadent old trees’... just nature’s way” costumes of many patches. Long bouts of together the next year, and we continued to Well, that wasn’t the way it felt inside my conversation would ensue, only after a cold travel the hills together off and on until 1999, aching heart, especially when I began to beer had been produced. Many years later, when his body quit on him. Through those realize — after returning from one too many long after my grandparents had died, I woke years, he was always a great guy to walk with clearcut-ravaged backpacks — that this was one morning in Stehekin (on the occasion of a — sharing good conversations and his wide what “They” were going to do to ALL of it: meeting with the director of the National Park range of interests, free with his opinions, rip down every tree that could be sold, and Service) to find Harvey asleep on our porch, and with a seemingly endless store of bawdy destroy the wilderness along with it. I was having rejected softer accommodations. limericks and humorous poems. desperate — wanted to do something to stop In discussing a planned memorial service Harvey is well known for his conservation it, but what? I was just a kid, didn’t know for Harvey with my mother, I mentioned that and writing efforts, but my best memories of anything, and besides, ‘can’t fight City Hall,’ there had been some controversy as to who Harvey are from climbing. In his early years he I had been told. should organize it, as many who might orga- was a capable and respected climber, just an- But I reread Harvey’s great book, Moun- nize it had quarreled with Harvey. “Oh, Har- other of us ragtag peak baggers. I’ll mention a taineering: Freedom of the Hills, and saw vey quarreled with everyone, at some point couple of climbs as examples. One was a climb in it the biting words I had missed the first or another,” she said. “Except Grant.” Harvey of Mt. Sir Donald in the Selkirks. In September time. At last, I thought — here is a man who and my grandfather, Grant McConnell, who of 1950, Harvey and I climbed the northwest tells it exactly how it is! Someone who fights many of you may know of as one of the leaders Ridge up and down (all downclimbed, no rap- back, and in public and in print! Says it right in the fight for the North Cascades National pelling) in what in those days was a very good up front — “This Emperor has no clothes!” Park, carried on a great friendship through time. Perfect weather, gorgeous rock, and a Exposes the shams of “multiple use” and the the second half of their lives. Harvey, I think, strong and amusing companion. It doesn’t get inherent obscenity of the wilderness-destroy- was the best friend of Grant’s later life. any better than that. Another was a July 1951 ing logging going on all around us. Through my childhood, Harvey and Grant climb of Forbidden with Harvey and John Dyer (yes, the John Dyer of the first ascent of So it was Harvey’s words, his special gift of carried on a monumental correspondence for Shiprock fame). The same adjectives apply, but pithy eloquence, that gave form and shape to decades. They were among the last great letter with two good companions. Those trips stand my own rising anger, showed me that it could writers and together they inspired each other out in my memory as two of my very best days be channeled into more than just outrage to their greatest artistry. The sight of letters in the mountains. One trip that was not on — but also, profoundly so for my career, to from Harvey provoked great grins in Grant Harvey’s favorite list was a 1950 climb of the Action. Action to save the places we loved, and reading them often produced howls of North Peak of Index with Vic Josendal, Ted Action to make a Difference! laughter. I sadly don’t have those letters, with the exception of one dated 1969 in which Beck, and me on the hottest day of the year. I joined the NCCC as soon as I heard about Grant reassures Harvey that he won’t be too To find out what Harvey thought of that day, it, devoured every issue of The Wild Cascades, hard on the first superintendent of the North you’ll have to wait until someone publishes specially the Irate Bridwatcher column... Cascades National Park, Roger Contor. The his climbing memoirs. joined the Mountaineers Conservation Divi- thought of Harvey thinking someone was In 1955 Harvey was put in charge of a sub- sion, and there (and through the NCCC too) too hard on a federal bureaucrat boggles the committee to revise and update the club’s met a whole new pantheon of heroes, men- mind. I guess Harvey was soft in his youth. Climbers Notebook, which was used as the tors, people like Polly and John Dyer, Phil But it gives one an inkling of why Harvey and text for the climbing course. I was lucky and Laura Zalesky, Pat and Jane Goldsworthy, Grant hit it off so well; here was someone enough to have been on this subcommittee Frank Fickeisen, Emily Haig, Mardy Murie, and likely to be as demanding of federal employ- and watch as the project grew from an update so many others, Harvey and Betty of course, ees as Harvey himself. of a slim, bare-bones manual to the compre- and constantly. At last, I felt, my troubled heart hensive book Mountaineering: Freedom of had found its true home: here in my adopted Toward the end of his life, I was a recipient the Hills. I say I was lucky to have been there land among such fellow-warriors, who loved of Harvey’s letters, those crazy photocopied because, although the development of the it too — and who actually knew what to DO collages. I’m afraid I did not carry on where manuscript was a long and serious process, about it!... people of the greatest integrity, Grant left off, did not hold up my end of the we all had fun. Harvey made it fun. He didn’t people who taught me to never quit, never correspondence. I think Harvey forgave me, order people around and didn’t belittle oth- give up, never back down — just keep moving chalking it up to the inevitable decline as ers’ sometimes pathetic efforts at writing. towards the final goal. the old passed away into the lesser new. But I do hope all of us continue to take Harvey’s Somehow he kept us all going for the years it And, always, above all — to speak out. That memory as a challenge to carry on the good took to get it done. I’m absolutely convinced was Harvey’s great inspiration to me, way back fight and be unafraid to be hard on those that Freedom would never have happened in those hard early days...and the myriad and who deserve it. without Harvey. always creative ways he did that for so many Freedom was published in 1960 and im- of us always will be his finest monument, I —Carolyn McConnell mediately started selling like gangbusters. think. This was a surprise. There were other how- —Brock Evans I first ran into Harvey in 1948 at a to-climb books, and there weren’t that many Mountaineers Climbing Course field trip. climbers anyway. Freedom was different; Har- Harvey was an important instructor and I Harvey had a mythical quality even vey and club elders had insisted that it cover was a fuzz-cheeked teenaged beginner, yet in my childhood, when his arrival in Stehekin all aspects of wilderness mountain travel, not he treated me as he would an adult—that is, Continued on page 15 14  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 Prospects Brighten for Wild Sky Passage

by Rick McGuire ith the Democratic victory in the acreage may also be added along lower regenerated, second-growth forests, another recent Congressional elections, Salmon Creek, and other acreage removed in first for Washington Wilderness. These 80- to Wprospects for passage of the long- the lower North Fork valley to facilitate recon- 90-year-old forests grow on productive low- awaited Wild Sky Wilderness have improved struction or relocation of the severely washed land sites, and have many trees two to three dramatically. First introduced in 2001, the out North Fork Skykomish road above the feet in diameter and 150 or more feet tall, well Wild Sky bill has twice made it through the town of Index. A small acreage, inadvertantly on their way to old-growth. Senate only to founder on the rocks of the added by Forest Service GIS mapmakers, may The Wild Sky is a stand-alone Wilderness House Resources Committee and its anti- be removed at the “Goblin Creek Bench,” to bill, without any attached “quid pro quo” pri- environmental chairman, Richard Pombo. allow future campground construction on a cetags, such as the mandated timber cuts, land Now that California voters have sent Pombo gently sloping benchland next to the North privatizations, and “economic development” and his pointy boots back to his ranch, and Fork road, possibly the only potential camp- provisions that have blighted Wilderness bills Democrats have taken back Congress, 2007 ground site in the otherwise steep North Fork in other states. NCCC hopes that Wild Sky can may be the year that Wild Sky finally makes Skykomish valley. be a precedent that will help future efforts it over the finish line. Sponsors Patty Murray If and when it finally passes, the Wild Sky to protect as Wilderness other low-elevation and Rick Larsen plan an early re-introduction. will mark a distinctly new approach to Wilder- Cascade places such as the Pratt River valley The new House Resources Committee chair- ness in Washington state. Although it includes near North Bend. man, pro-environment Nick Rahall of West mountains and high country, its main focus NCCC also wishes to express heartfelt Virginia, has said that passing Wild Sky is one will be protection of biologically rich lower- thanks to Senator Patty Murray, Congressman of his “top priorities.” elevation forests, both old growth and second Rick Larsen, and their staff members for their Conservationists have been working with growth. The Wild Sky Wilderness would in- hard work, patience, and persistence in stick- Murray and Larsen to fix several minor prob- clude a far greater percentage of land below ing with the Wild Sky effort over the past eight lems with the bill and hope to insure full 3,000 feet than any other Wilderness area sometimes discouraging years. Good things inclusion of the “Hubbard Grove,” an area of in the Cascades, and significant mileage of take time. Wild Sky has been a long time in impressive and easily accessible old-growth salmon spawning streams, something almost coming, but it looks as though 2007 may be forest growing on flat land along the upper totally lacking in other Cascade Wilderness ar- when the stars align to finally make it real. North Fork Skykomish river, featuring 700- eas. Most notably, the Wild Sky would protect year-old Douglas fir and cedar trees. Some more than 6,000 acres of mature, naturally

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Continued from page 14 benefited greatly from Harvey’s editing, and While I met Harvey for the first time it also turned into a money gusher. With two only months before his passing, I knew him, just climbing skills. A perhaps more important good cash streams flowing, we were able to or at least understood him, long before that. difference is that Freedom was an entertain- publish a really expensive color book, The It was in 1982 that I first read 101 Hikes in the ing and enjoyable read. Here again you must Alpine Lakes, in 1971. Harvey and I disagreed North Cascades. At that time, I was looking for credit Harvey. There were literally hundreds about doing The Alpine Lakes. I thought that ways to access the North Cascades to complete of writers who contributed copy for the book, big exhibit format books were passé, and that climbs and to discover remote places that the and usually this kind of process would result trying to get wilderness status for the pro- range has to offer. What I found was a message in an uneven, herky-jerky manuscript. Harvey posed area was hopeless. I told him, “Look, of conservation — not just how or where to did an enormous amount of editing and re- Harvey, it’s mostly Snoqualmie Pass stuff, not go, but, most importantly, how to behave once writing, making the thing whole. All through nearly impressive enough.” He and the Alpine there. I not only practice “Leave No Trace” early editions of the book you find little bits Lakes Protection Society guys felt strongly when I’m in the hills, but as a matter of course of pure Harvey such as in the dishwashing that we should try. So, reluctantly, I put the in my everyday life. I have Harvey to thank for section of the Alpine Cuisine chapter, “... book together, grumbling all the way that this that, and so thankful I am. the climber merely avoids eating all the way wasn’t going to do any good. As usual Harvey down to the germ cultures at the bottom of Last week, as I skied on the heels of the first could see more clearly than me. He never said big snowstorm of the year in the headwaters the plate.” Harvey always shucked off credit “I told you so,” but from time to time couldn’t for the book’s success, saying that it was the of the Stilly Valley, the dark and sodden storm resist telling me the story of how Governor clouds parted for just a moment. A patch of work of many and that people only bought it Dan Evans and President Ford inspected the to see Bob Cram’s cartoons. blue appeared over me, and book in the Oval Office. through the swirling snow, The money kicked off by Freedom allowed Others can better describe Harvey’s many the big faces of DelCampo and the publishing group to continue to have accomplishments on the conservation front Morning Star appeared. I should fun. Known at this point as the Literary Fund and in the writing world. They stand large for like to think Harvey was telling Committee, we were able to publish The me as well, but I think most of Harvey as men- me to keep up the good work. North Cascades in 1964, Routes and Rocks in tor and friend, and I miss him very much. I plan to. 1965, and 100 Hikes in 1966. 100 Hikes also —Tom Miller —Tom Hammond The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007  15 Predator Conservation in the North Cascades by Jim Davis – Conservation Partnership Center

ith its rushing streams, tower- of these magnificent predators from the North The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) ing trees, and remote meadows, Cascades. designated the North Cascades as one of six Wthe North Cascades is one of the recovery areas in the lower 48 states. Agency most magnificent wild ecosystems in North Grizzly Bears research has indicated that suitable habitat America. The North Cascades National Park, Grizzly bears are often portrayed by the exists in the North Cascades for maintaining Manning Provincial Park, and several major media as vicious and highly unpredictable. In at least 200 to 400 grizzly bears. Protection for wilderness areas provide a vast grizzly bears has been built into core of roadless public lands federal land management plans that are unsurpassed in habitat (e.g., National Forest Plans). complexity and sheer beauty. Important steps have also been Extensive U.S. National Forests, taken to reduce non-natural Washington state forests, and food attractants for bears (such British Columbia Provincial for- as garbage, birdfeed, pet food, ests provide a roaded, but still and other foods that attract bears substantially wild buffer to sur- to residential areas). Opinion rounding private lands. surveys have demonstrated that But all is not well in this beau- a strong majority of residents in tiful wilderness paradise. Large and around the North Cascades predators are present only in support grizzly bear recovery. small numbers, nowhere near Everything is ready to go, but the their natural population levels. process has stalled at the federal The grizzly bear is the icon of and state levels. the American West, but only a Federal funding is needed few roam the North Cascades. Al- for the USFWS to implement an though sighted occasionally, the Environmental Impact Study elusive gray wolf is also extremely for grizzly bear recovery in the rare in the North Cascades. Grizzly —John Hechtel North Cascades. The USFWS These large predators are es- recognizes the need for EIS sential for the proper functioning of natural funding, but states that funding fact, they are very reclusive creatures that act ecosystems. Rushing streams, towering trees, is precluded by necessary spending on other aggressively toward humans only in specific and remote meadows are but a blank canvas endangered species. Conservation Northwest situations, usually when they feel threatened without this top trophic level fully represent- and Defenders of Wildlife have sued the US- by human actions. Grizzly bears are most of- ed. As clearly demonstrated in Yellowstone FWS to prompt more aggressive action on ten found in high alpine meadows, avalanche Park, large predators control herbivore popu- grizzly bear recovery. We eagerly await the chutes, and valley wetlands. Grizzly bears in lations and smaller predator populations, results of this lawsuit, but strong advocacy the North Cascades are omnivores, with about ultimately improving vegetation growth and for funding will still be needed to make an 10 percent of their diet as meat or fish, and other major ecosystem characteristics. EIS happen. much of that winter-killed carrion. I marvel that this status quo (the near ab- Washington state could also be more proac- Before Europeans arrived, grizzly bears sence of grizzly bears and gray wolves from tive on grizzly bear recovery. Although listed were thriving throughout most of western the North Cascades) is in any way acceptable as an endangered species by the Washington North America. Hudson Bay Company trap- to conservationists in Washington. To be fair, Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), ping records show almost 4,000 grizzly bear many dedicated conservation advocates are very limited state funds are available for hides shipped from trading posts in or near doing everything possible to carve out new WDFW to take action on grizzly bear recov- the North Cascades from 1827 to 1859. Today, wilderness, protect roadless areas, enhance ery. The agency is further hobbled by a state it is estimated that only 20 to 40 grizzly bears wildlife habitat, stall off-road vehicles, halt law that forbids WDFW participation in griz- remain in the North Cascades of Washington mindless urban sprawl, and educate the public zly bear augmentation programs (bringing and British Columbia. This steep population about our wildlife heritage. But few are speak- in bears from outside the North Cascades). decline is attributed to commercial trapping, ing up directly for predator conservation. WDFW desperately needs additional funds to habitat loss, and unregulated hunting. An Perhaps it is not politically correct to focus too work on grizzly bear recovery and the absurd isolated population, a restricted gene pool, much attention on charismatic mega fauna. restriction on population augmentation needs and a very slow reproductive rate will make Perhaps some hope that protecting habitat to be lifted. it almost impossible for North Cascade griz- will prompt natural (i.e., less controversial) During the past decade, British Columbia zly bears to recover naturally. Aggressive and recovery of predator populations. has moved ahead of the U.S. on grizzly bear proactive strategies are needed now to save recovery in the North Cascades by planning But natural recovery is not happening for North Cascades grizzly bears. grizzly bears in the North Cascades and this and partially implementing an augmentation Preliminary steps have been taken toward approach may not work for recovery of the program using bears from Wells Gray Pro- grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades. gray wolf population. Complacency in the face vincial Park. Candidate bears were collared The grizzly bear was listed as Threatened of severe grizzly bear and gray wolf popula- under the Endangered Species Act in 1975. tion declines may usher in the final extinction Continued on page 17 16  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 and tracked for suitability and lists were cre- Cascades. By 1930, wolves were thought to and the British Columbia Ministry for the ated of people to serve on a citizen’s grizzly be extirpated from the Washington North Environment need to know that North Cas- bear recovery task force. Unfortunately, the Cascades and were rarely seen in the British cades residents support wolf recovery. Wolf augmentation effort has been put on hold Columbia North Cascades. population goals in Washington state should by the British Columbia Ministry for the En- Today, the gray wolf population in the reflect the public’s support for recovery. vironment. The delay has been attributed to North Cascades is extremely low. However, Conservationists must also remain vigilant in concerns about the effectiveness of grizzly there have been occasional sightings. Since protecting lowland habitats for wolf prey spe- bear augmentation programs. the early 1990s, three packs with pups have cies. For example, lowland habitat loss may be A citizen’s task force should be appointed been observed in the Washington North a primary reason for elk population declines in the British Columbia North Cascades to Cascades, indicating that reproduction has in Skagit and Whatcom Counties. help assess the potential effectiveness of a taken place. Gray wolves with pups were Elk and deer are considered big game ani- grizzly bear augmentation program. The task photographed in 1991 near Hozomeen along mals. Hunting quotas for these species need force should have access to the best available Ross Lake. Adult wolf sightings have also been to reflect a balanced approach that leaves scientific advice on grizzly bear augmenta- reported from the Pasayten Wilderness, the adequate prey for wolves. Wolf recovery ad- tion programs and should carefully examine Glacier Peak Wilderness, and other sites in vocates must be present to speak up for the the social and economic aspects of grizzly the North Cascades. needs of wolves when these hunting quotas bear population augmentation in the British Gray wolves are currently listed as Endan- are being set. Columbia North Cascades. Further delay in gered under the Endangered Species Act. They Limiting human induced mortality of implementing this program will only increase are also listed as endangered by the state of wolves should be a top priority for conserva- the chances that grizzly bears will disappear Washington. These listings preclude the hunt- tion groups. Predator control by wildlife agen- entirely from the North Cascades. ing, trapping, shooting, harassing, or captur- cies is driven by frequent complaints from Gray Wolves ing of gray wolves in the Washington North a vocal minority opposed to wolf recovery. Cascades. Gray wolves are classified as big Conservationists need to counter this pres- Wolves are prob- game animals in British Columbia, although sure with frequent calls for wolf protection. ably the most ma- hunting is very limited in the Canadian North USFWS and WDFW enforcement of legal pro- ligned predator in the Cascades. tections for endangered wolves is essential. world. The public’s The biology and behavior of gray wolves Conservationists should encourage wildlife perception of wolves is conducive to population recovery in the agencies to follow-up aggressively on every has been influenced North Cascades. Wolves reproduce at a young illegal wolf kill. Efforts should also be made by everything from age and often have large litters. Research has to end all legal hunting of wolves in the British childhood stories shown that wolf packs form and dissolve Columbia North Cascades. of Little Red Riding quickly. Areas with good habitat and adequate Hood to exaggerated The Path Forward prey abundance can be colonized rapidly. A claims by ranchers wolf recovery program in Montana, Wyoming, The North Cascades Conservation Council Canis lupus of wolf predation and Idaho has resulted in a few of these wolves and other conservation groups in Washington —Gary Kramer, on livestock. In fact, moving into eastern Washington and Oregon. and British Columbia can make a difference US Fish and Wildlife wolves are extremely It is likely just a matter of time until small in predator recovery in the North Cascades. Service, 2003 intelligent animals packs from northeast Washington colonize Public opinion surveys have shown that rural with a complex and the North Cascades and create the potential residents of the North Cascades strongly sup- fascinating social structure that is essential for wolf population expansion throughout the port recovery of grizzly bears. Opponents of for their success. There have been only two North Cascades. recovery are only a vocal minority who pur- documented incidents in North America of port to speak for all North Cascade residents, Primary threats to the long-term survival wild wolves involved in human fatalities. but are truly out of touch with their neighbors. of wolves in the North Cascades include Healthy, purebred wolves rarely if ever attack Conservation groups need to reach out to ru- habitat loss (from residential development of humans. ral partners and work together to bring back lowlands needed by wolf prey species), over- Wolf livestock kills are also not nearly as these magnificent animals. hunting of wolf prey species (elk and deer), common as rumored. Wild dogs are far more and human-induced wolf mortality (preda- Land management and wildlife agencies, as likely to be responsible. Wolves generally prey tor control, poaching, and hunting in British well as the legislative bodies that provide their on large ungulates, with elk likely being the Columbia). Gray wolves will not return to the funding, need to recognize that feared contro- preferred prey in the North Cascades and deer North Cascades unless all of these factors are versy surrounding predator recovery is more a close second. Beaver and marmots are also adequately addressed. hype than reality. Scientifically-based plans common prey for wolves and may become and careful communications with citizens WDFW is responding to wolf colonization important for survival of wolves in the North can overcome nearly all potential conflicts through development of a wolf-management Cascades. Wolves usually prey on old or in- over predator recovery. Government decision plan. The plan will identify appropriate loca- jured animals, thus helping to maintain the makers need to listen to the general public, tions and population goals for gray wolves in vigor of prey species. and not just the vocal minority who stir up Washington. It will also outline appropriate Before Europeans arrived, wolves roamed opposition to predators. responses to wolf predation on livestock. nearly all of North America from Alaska to WDFW will work closely with representatives Agencies should also fund education Mexico and the Pacific to the Atlantic. Trap- from multiple stakeholder groups to develop programs for North Cascades residents that ping for pelts decimated wolf populations in the plan. emphasize the simple steps that can be taken the North Cascades and much of the rest of to prevent conflicts with bears and wolves. Now is the time for conservationists to the North America. Extermination programs Programs should reach out specifically to speak up for wolf recovery in the North Cas- (trapping, poisoning, and shooting) further minority populations (e.g., Hispanics, Asians, cades. WDFW, the Washington Legislature, suppressed wolf populations in the North Continued on page 19 The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007  17 USFS Salvage Logging Plan: 2,800 Acres By Tom Hammond

he USFS is planning a salvage logging operation Please send your own letter to the Forest Service. Tin primary tributaries of the Methow River, the Chewuch River, Beaver, Bernhardt, Boul- der, Brevicomis, Bromas, Cabin, Cedar, Granite, Lightning, McCay, Pelican, Ramsey and Twentymile Creeks. This huge operation would encompass 2,800 acres, John Newcom much of it burned in the Tripod Methow Valley District Ranger Fire, but not all. Perhaps most 24 West Chewuch Road distressing, the USFS is seeking to amend the 1989 Forest Plan Winthrop, WA 98862 to allow: Dear Ranger Newcom, • Removal of green, living trees greater than 21 inches in diam- Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed salvage logging eter at breast height. in the Tripod complex area of the Methow Valley. I have a question, an observa- • Log in designated Management tion, and a suggestion. Areas to include MA14 (em- If the purpose is to remove hazard trees along forest routes to improve public phasis supposedly on wildlife habitat diversity), MA12 (Lynx safety, why are new roads required? territory), MA5 (recreation), To be sure, at a time when we the taxpayers are confronted with extensive MA25, MA26. road damage from recent floods (2003, 2006), not to mention road maintenance • Adding 3.5 miles of new roads in backlogs that present formidable challenges for all elements of our forest health, a burned area, as well as recon- the idea of building more road miles goes counter to common sense, and can- struction (read: construction) of an additional 6.5 miles of not be sanctioned. road. That is, at this time when Perhaps as part of an effort to salvage those trees that pose a real threat, the so many roads and trails are so USFS can engage in decommissioning (permanently where applicable) roads or damaged, they’re proposing adding 10 miles of roads to log otherwise mitigating the impacts brought by roads, and the fire as well. We will a forest-fire area! The technical be happy to work with the USFS to identify candidates for such work. term for all of this is that the Scientific research has proven that burned areas are not destroyed and that USFS would “exceed open road density standards” established fire is an essential part of forest health. Furthermore, research indicates burned by the Forest Plan of 1989. areas are more susceptible to ground disturbances associated with logging: soil

The board of the NCCC takes erosion, stream siltation, and destruction of seedlings and ultimately inhibit exception to this plan, and we forest regeneration. hope our membership does too. It runs counter to all common sense and scientific research to engage in exten- When you read this, it’ll be too late to get a letter on the official sive salvage logging activities in these areas. It would appear that the proposed record (the USFS gave less than a salvage efforts would cause more harm than good and at a time when forest month for comments), but here’s service resources should be focused on trail and road repair, not increased road the one we sent. We highly rec- building and forest product removal. ommend every member of this organization send Ranger New- Sincerely, com a letter as well, if for no other reason than to let him and the Thomas P Hammond USFS know we’re watching and North Cascades Conservation Council taking this very seriously.

18  The Wild Cascades • Winter 2006–2007 Proposed Radio Upgrades Threaten Park and National Forest Integrity Remembering Karen Fant KAREN FANT, one of the founders of the Washington Wilderness By Tom Hammond Coalition (WWC) in 1979 (and a former NCCC board member), died in July 2006; however, her death had not been reported until The USFS and NPS have been And on sunny days the antennas November. Her friends and family had assumed that Fant had working on a plan to upgrade on mountaintops are visible for gone on one of her occasional unannounced overseas trips . their radio communications to miles. Known for her independence, Fant had numerous friends and a narrowband system. The pro- The NCCC proposes instead admirers in the wilderness-preservation movement, but many posal originally called for use using satellite phones and con- said she kept many of her plans to herself. Fant, 57, was credited with a major part of the grassroots of 12 repeater sites throughout ference-bridging technology. But the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie work that resulted in Congress enacting the 1984 Washington the NPS is not yet embracing the State Wilderness Act, preserving one million acres of wilderness. National Forest. This has now idea due primarily to line-of-sight She was known among her colleagues as someone who could been downsized to nine sites. Un- limitations on transmission, but mediate and bring diplomacy to sometimes heated meetings fortunately, all five proposed sites I suspect a bit of organizational and discussions. within North Cascades National (and contractual) inertia may be Norm Winn, former Mountaineer conservation chair and Park are still on the table. Of the in play as well. We will continue WWC president, remembered Fant for her diplomatic skills. He five, the only site that doesn’t cur- to work with the NPS to find an said, unlike many others who fought for the wilderness, Fant took rently have radio infrastructure is alternative solution, or mitigate the time and effort to visit local groups and small towns affected Desolation Peak/Lookout. their proposal. by legislation, such as that for the Wild Sky Wilderness. She was born in Altadena, California where she grew up go- The NCCC continues to seek Please contact Mount Baker ing on hiking trips in the Sierras with her family. She earned a less intrusive options—the ra- Ranger District (attn: Samantha degree in geology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, dio-repeater infrastructure is a Chang) at 810 State Route 20, Se- and later married Ron Yarnell, an Alaska outfitter who led wil- building that measures eight by dro Woolley, WA 98284, to convey derness excursions. The two later divorced. eight by six feet and may have a your thoughts on the appropriate- A memorial serve is being planned for the coming spring in mast antenna some 50 feet high. ness of large radio infrastructure Seattle. In addition to the structures, in a Wilderness setting. —Norm Winn, The Mountaineer, January 2007 installation and maintenance of such infrastructure will be highly disruptive to Park visitors and Membership Application wildlife, what with helicopter Be part of the North Cascades Conservation Council’s Advocacy of the North Cascades. Join construction and service flights. the NCCC. Support the North Cascades Foundation. Help us help protect North Cascades wilderness from overuse and development. NCCC membership dues (one year): $10 low income/student; $20 regular; $25 family; $50 Contributing; $100 patron; $1,000 sustaining. A one-time life membership dues payment Predator Conservation is $500. The Wild Cascades, published three times a year, is included with NCCC member- in the North Cascades ship. Please check the appropriate box(es): Continued from page 17 i want to join the NCCC and others) whose conservation The North Cascades Conservation Council (NCCC), formed in 1957, works through knowledge, attitudes, and be- legislative, legal and public channels to protect the lands, waters, plants and wildlife haviors will become increasingly of the North Cascades ecosystem. Non-tax-deductible, it is supported by dues and important for preserving future donations. A 501(c)4 organization. predator populations in the i wish to support NCF North Cascades. The North Cascades Foundation (NCF) supports the NCCC’s non-political legal and For more information on griz- educational efforts. Donations are tax-deductible as a 501(c)3 organization. zly bear and wolf recovery in the North Cascades and how you can This is a NCCC Membership NCCC Renewal Membership Gift NCCC $______contribute to recovery efforts, contact Jim Davis at jimdavis- This is a Donation to North Cascades Foundation NCF [email protected]. Total $______Please cut, enclose check and mail form and check to: North Cascades Name______Conservation Council Address______Membership Chair City______state______Zip______L. Zalesky 2433 Del Campo Dr. Phone ______Everett, WA 98208

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