BROADSIDES VOLUME 24 | NO. 2 | SUMMER 2014 Recapturing BLM Lands for All Americans Take What do you get when you put together 22 of conservation partners, and have never action! miles of illegally constructed ATV trails, a relinquished our vigilance. Write to Secretary County Commissioner, a deadbeat rancher Weeks before Lyman’s incursion, Cliven Bundy Jewell and BLM Cliven Bundy’s son, and a canyon filled with staged a militia-backed rebellion against the Director Neil Kornze at fragile archeological treasures and active beaver BLM in Nevada. Bundy Ranch’s Facebook page [email protected] ponds? invited participation in the Recapture ride; insisting on equitable The wild wild west Lyman promptly posted a thank you, knowingly justice for all violators …on steroids inviting armed thugs from across the country. of BLM regulations. And so they came, along with Cliven Bundy’s Tim DeChristopher Broadsides Spring 2014 reported on San Juan son who personally signed copies of the U.S. served two years in County’s request to the Bureau of Land Constitution at an evening rally. Hoisting guns, federal prison for an Management (BLM) to hand over authority American flags, and children without helmets, at unarmed act of civil on 14.3 miles of least one rider held his disobedience, raising routes in Recapture finger on the trigger of his hand at an auction Canyon in Utah. an assault rifle as he to claim illegally offered Since then, the drove an ATV through oil and gas leases canyon has the canyon. drawn national near Arches National attention—for all “Imagine how history Monument. Certainly, the wrong reasons. might have turned there should be similar out if had justice for Cliven On May 10, County been brandishing an Bundy, Phil Lyman, and Commissioner Phil automatic weapon their followers, who Lyman illegally when she boarded that conspired in advance led some fifty bus in Montgomery, to commit illegal acts, ATVs through Alabama, all those used threats of physical the canyon to years ago...” opines violence, and carried protest BLM’s 2007 Numerous ATV riders from around the country gather for the staged out destructive actions. ATV ride that took the closed route through Recapture Canyon, Utah. Utah’s own Salt Lake motorized closure. Tribune editorial Yes, this is the same on May 12. “In the route for which two people were convicted and eyes of most of the American people—and fined $35,000 in 2011 for cutting trees, moving their members of Congress—who really own IN THIS ISSUE... boulders, building stiles and bridges, and all that land, Saturday’s ride was accurately 25 years of causing an estimated $310,000 in archaeological discerned as a childish snit fit that should only Broadness...... 3 damage. Broads documented impacts of the confirm BLM policy to keep such folks out of trail soon after discovering it in 2006. Since then, environmentally or historically sensitive lands.” 2014 we’ve pressed for prosecution, enlisted support Events Calendar...... 4 (continued page 14) Broader Wilderness...... 7 “I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not Wilderness50 Events...... 8–9 recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.” Broads Beat...... 10 – Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910 Broadbands in Action...... 12 A M E S S A GE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SHELLEY SILBERT

As spring melts into summer, cyclically bound. Why bird migrations slacken, and a have I never felt this swallowtail butterfly emerges from before? its chrysalis and crawls on my shoe Since I’ve become with limp wings, I think of the Great Old Broads joys of slowing down. What better Executive Director of way to celebrate wilderness than Great Old Broads for for Wilderness to match the pace of a growing Wilderness, I can’t say PO Box 2924 seedling, to shift to ground level my pace has slowed. Durango, CO 81302 and touch moist soil, or to sit quietly But I am older now. 970-385-9577 while a towhee hops My soul and body [email protected] by, unconcerned yearn for respite and greatoldbroads.org with my presence. time to appreciate life’s daily wonders. STAFF From here, I ponder Shelley Silbert, My mind, on geologic time and In Executive Director the contrary, imagine the stages of Rose Chilcoat, Associate Director recognizes an everchanging Mother M’Lissa Roulson, a the pressing Earth. I feel rekindled, Communications Director urgency to and acknowledge a BROAD Ellen Stein, Broadband & ceaseless love and sense protect our land, Membership Coordinator of wonder that fuels my water, and air Joyce Thomsen, passion to fight for wild Sense from a hungry, Membership Maven nature. populated, ever- Amy Johnston, Office Manager industrializing Shelley Spalding, Broadband Years ago, I attended a silent “The Joys of world. Circuit Rider meditation retreat near Joshua Somehow, we Susan Kearns, Graphic Designer Tree National Monument Slowing Down and all must find a Samantha Brow, in the Mojave Desert. After way to balance Auction Coordinator days of sitting indoors, I told Taking a Breath” these two needs, BOARD OF DIRECTORS my teacher I had to escape respite and Karen Ryman, CO - Chair outside, to walk among the urgency. Diana Allison, UT - Vice Chair desert plants and feel the sun on my skin. ‘’If Cristina Harmon, CO - Treasurer that is what your spirit desires, go,’’ she said. I am just a few years older than the Wilderness Saralaine Millet, AZ ”And take your conscious breathing with Act, and know both the act and its defenders Caroline Munger, CO you.’’ need to endure for the long haul. As Broads, Lois Snedden, NV we believe the brightest future unfolds when Lee Verner, CO Off I walked in a natural state of meditation, practicality mixes with poetry, laughter ADVISORY BOARD moving with such intention that I sensed the punctuates hard work, and hope tempers Steve Allen, Joe Breddan, activities of plants and insects I had never despair. Karen Cox, Dave Foreman, noticed before. Inhaling, I felt the creosote Maggie Fox, Fred Goodsell, bushes giving me breath. Exhaling, they Great Old Broads for Wilderness travels into the Ginger Harmon, Vicky Hoover, absorbed my respiration in return. We were next twenty-five years with a small team of hard- Fran Hunt, Cecelia Hurwich, Frandee Johnson, Matt Kenna, one organism, the desert and I. ‘’This is working staff, dedicated volunteer Broadband leaders, and a national cadre of 5,200 members Linda Liscom, Chuck McAfee, MB crazy,’’ interjected my inner scientist. And McAfee, Sarah Michael, then the startling insight came—but of course and advocates. At our very core we emphasize Erin Moore, Marcey Olajos, we breathe together! The creosote bush grassroots activism. We believe that it is only Tim Peterson, Lynn Prebble, releases oxygen which I take in, while I exhale through active democracy and an engaged Marilyn Price-Reinbolt, citizenry that we will bring about a future that Cindy Shogan, Liz Thomas, carbon dioxide to feed its photosynthetic Susan Tixier process. Indeed our lungs are united, protects the enduring resource of wilderness. Great Old Broads for Wilderness is (continued page 15) a national non-profit organization that engages and ignites the activism of elders to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived “As Broads, we believe the brightest by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of future unfolds when practicality older Americans who want their public lands protected as Wilderness for mixes with poetry, laughter this and future generations. We bring voice, knowledge, commitment, and punctuates hard work, and hope humor to the movement to protect our last wild places on earth. tempers despair.” Please credit Broads for any reprinted

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2 greatoldbroads.org 25 Years of Broadness

to our home base, monument. As partners in this effort, the serene Mt. Peale Broads did not hesitate to share their Inn and Animal thoughts and opinions by putting pen to Sanctuary, evenings paper. begin with happy hour and sharing With a focus on Utah, the Broadwalk stories of the day’s included an educational presentation adventures. After the titled, What Our Forests Could Be by evening’s delicious Mary O’Brien, Utah Forests Program meal, prepared by Director for the Grand Canyon Trust. the crew from Sheri As a scientist, educator, and tireless conservationist, Mary shares of the Great Old Broads celebrate 25 years at the Griffith Expeditions, 25th Anniversary Broadwalk in May, La Sal, Utah. Broads gather for a persistent issues and devastation special guest speaker that endures each season wrought by or educational presentation. domestic livestock grazing managed by roads trickle in from around the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of the country to congregate for Wilderness activist and author of Land Management (BLM). Collectively, this auspicious celebration, the Trespass, Amy Irvine, captivated her these agencies administer thousands of B organization’s 25th anniversary. audience with personal stories of her permits to ranchers allowing heavily Traveling from as far east as father, her new-found love, and the subsidized grazing of livestock on our Washington, D.C. and Maine, and as contrasts that she experienced during her western federal lands for months each far west as northern California and time living in a remote part of southern year. Mary’s presentation is fused with Washington state, the main dining area Utah, on the Colorado Plateau. Amy interesting facts and surprisingly, some is soon filled with animated greetings, shared of her deep love for Utah’s desert optimism. She outlines how there is a big smiles, laughter, and warm embraces landscapes and what many agree to need to shift the focus on values other as part of the arrival ritual. be irreplaceable. We too, share in the than how much grass cattle eat. New As the newest staff member of the mourning of the continued encroachment pathways are being cultivated for diverse organization, my curiosity is piqued for more extraction of resources among (continued page 5) as to what makes the Broads different the beloved red rock country. from other groups or clubs of this Moving from the philosophical demographic. Often older women are to the pragmatic, Terri Martin, loved and understood simply to be long time conservation activist mothers and grandmothers, and not and Southwest Regional much else. However, it soon becomes Organizer at the Southern Utah clear that the Great Old Broads have been Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), consistently redefining what it means to presents detailed information act your age. on the growing campaign to Dubbed as the Greater Canyonlands Protect Greater Canyonlands. She Broadwalk, the weekend’s agenda is concludes with a call to action not for the faint of heart, as each day asking everyone to write a letter is teeming with a series of activities. to President Obama emphasizing Broads pose as live petroglyphs. Back: Cristina Harmon, Broads sort into small groups eager to why he should proclaim this Elaine Boutilier, Sue Graf. Front: Sue Agranoff, and Caroline Munger. embark upon stewardship projects led by area to be protected as a national local agency staff, while others venture out to monitor and record the health Broad Reflections of Recapture Canyon, an area that has Broad Reflections received media attention. (See front-page article for more details.) Others spend “I appreciated your Broad efforts to inform us of all sides of the issue, to listen, engage time assessing vegetation in a recently in tough questioning and decisions. I respected your expertise, intimate understanding burned area of the La Sal Mountains. and fervent commitment to the ecosystems. You struggle with issues but strive to Such monitoring helps to inform the maintain mutual respect, let each voice her opinions and honor your relationships Forest Service about livestock grazing. with each other. I think you value and understand the importance of connection with wilderness for life-supporting processes and also for sustaining our spirits. Your Broad And, of course, there is always the classic humor amused me. I relaxed in your acceptance of us novices along with established hike where Broads experience the beauty friendships. I am pleased by your Broad view of the world and I hope to be part of of the canyons, and learn more about other adventures with you.” any threats they may face. Upon return Sincerely, Leslie Lihou

greatoldbroads.org 3 protect. With the help of our Bozeman environmental historian William Cronon. Broadband, this incredible wild Learn and practice how to lobby for 2014 landscape and the competing interests your favorite wilderness proposals. - - that want a piece of it will be the focus of Ask Congress to listen to what the our long Broadwalk weekend. American people want…more protected Calendar of Wilderness! Interested? Contact Amy Hikes, speakers, service projects, Johnston [email protected]. Events advocacy, and fun interwoven throughout, this should be another For more information regarding any Nat’l Wilderness of the Broads events, please visit our 50 website, greatoldbroads.org/events/. Conference To register for any events, or if you Albuquerque, NM have questions, you can do one of the following: October 15–19, 2014 Phone: 970-385-9577, or, Join with Broads and Email: [email protected] other wilderness lovers at this historic multi-day Or, provide your registration event of diverse programs, information via U.S. mail to: presentations, exhibits, panels, field trips, and

Great Old Broads workshops at the Hyatt P.O.Box 2924, Durango, CO 81302 Regency Albuquerque and Albuquerque Convention Center. Associate Director Rose Chilcoat will present as part of a panel on Civic Engagement and we’ll Classic Broadwalk have a booth throughout the conference. Broads are co-hosting an evening Gallatin Wilderness, Bozeman, MT reception at the Marble Brewery along fabulous Broad gathering where you can with The Rio Grande Chapter of the August 14–18, 2014 immerse in a deserving wild landscape. Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Join us! Fee includes 4 nights camping, Location: Based at Yellowstone Alliance and Wilderness Watch. The Rio Grande breakfast/dinner each day, hikes, Adventure Camp in South Cottonwood Broadband is leading an optional outing speakers, service projects, and more. Canyon, about 15 minutes from to the Ojito Wilderness on October 15th. Not up for camping? Limited lodging is Bozeman, MT There will also be a public Wilderness50 available for an additional fee. “Get Wild” festival in the Civic Plaza. Cost: $170 member/$195 non-member There’s lots going on, so come Get Wild The spectacularly wild Gallatin Range Wilderness Week with us in Albuquerque! on Bozeman’s doorstep and just north For more info: wilderness50th.org/ of Yellowstone National Park has been Washington, DC conference.php. Registration is open the focus of wilderness proposals for and includes a senior rate and volunteer decades. Congress designated the September 14–17, 2014 discounts. Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Wilderness Celebration of The Wilderness Act’s Study Area in 1977. As the last significant golden anniversary includes Wilderness portion of the Yellowstone ecosystem Week in D.C. with an activist gathering Wild for Wilderness with little wilderness protection, the to honor our history and discuss the Online Auction Forest Service was reminded via a recent next 50 years of wilderness protection; lawsuit that they must maintain the meetings with congressional leaders; a November 3–16, 2014 wilderness character as it was in 1977 celebration event and after-hours tour —a challenge they have failed to meet. Our ever-popular, one of a kind, 10th to the Wilderness Forever Exhibit at the annual online auction goes live for two In 2013, the Gallatin Collaborative Smithsonian’s National History Museum; weeks just in time for holiday shopping, was initiated to help determine the and a lecture by leading American vacation planning, and some personal future of the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo indulgence. The auction boasts outdoor Horn Wilderness Study Area and adventures, gear, vacation stays, clothing, adjacent lands. Consensus is the goal. food, books, music, art, jewelry and However, not all stakeholders are able much, much more. to participate. If this controversial effort bypasses the National Environmental Support Broads with a donation for the Policy Act (NEPA) and takes a “false auction and by sharing the auction with consensus plan” directly to Congress, your Broad-minded friends. Visit: it could diminish the Wilderness that http://auction.greatoldbroads.org/

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4 greatoldbroads.org 25th Anniversary Broadwalk (continued from page 3) stakeholders to participate innovatively this thin layer, the Earth will no longer be and they are encouraged to address habitable.” concepts of sustainable grazing that result in long-term ecological health and These are powerful statements to productivity of the land. consider. What makes Earth habitable? We all are Our final facing severe evening, Maggie social, economic Fox is the and ecological celebration’s challenges. As keynote an organization speaker. Tall now grown $ and slender, and matured, 25 FOR wearing it is also time TH flip-flops to evolve, to OUR and an aged expand, and 25 Patagonia to continue to fleece, Maggie As part of our broaden our is no stranger to the Broads vision as we 25th anniversary, Newest staff member of the organization, M’Lissa, with original move into the organization. Great Old Broads, Lois Snedden and Ann Ronald. Maggie next 25 years. our goal is to increase demonstrates a woman who is strong Midlife and our membership by 25%. and capable, both physically and older women are the greatest source of intellectually. Her impressive list of feminine wisdom alive on our planet accomplishments includes those that – and yet they remain an (almost) would take many people several life untapped resource. times. As the former President and CEO of the Climate Reality Project, Maggie From my vantage point, and from what has generously given of her time over the I observed at this commemorative years to the Broads since her time as a Broadwalk weekend, I offer these founding member thoughts. The Broads on the Board of must stay rooted in Directors. The power of feminine its history, cherish its Maggie shares wisdom and perseverance beginnings of how the heartfelt stories are gifts we must share organization was born, of those moments with others... and reflect upon the that helped her culmination of all that Here are three ways you can help the Broads grow our membership and to make distinct has been learned and life choices as she partook in activities amplify our voice. achieved in the last 25 years, all that is where she had direct experience with timeless and meaningful. The power of • Increase your membership wild and sacred places, such as during —by a multiple of $25. her time working as a leader with feminine wisdom and perseverance are gifts we must share with others, and in Outward Bound. Fueled by her love • Give gift memberships to for the environment, she pursued and doing this we consistently transform others for only $25, our special received her law degree. Her strong our awareness into action. Awareness introductory membership ideas, intuition and involvement helped demands Action. rate, and be entered in our quilt to establish several organizations that raffle drawing. focused on policy efforts on climate As author Derrick Jensen explains in his change, natural resources, Western public article, Beyond Hope, when you move • Become a Sustaining Member: lands and water issues. from awareness to action, “when you A monthly commitment is a quit relying on hope, and instead begin wonderful way to support our In her parting words, she reflected, to protect the people, things, and places ongoing advocacy work. “When you look up at the sky, it seems as you love, you become very dangerous if it is endless, limitless.” She continued, With your help, we will reach indeed to those in power. In case you’re “It’s this vast space, yet only one mile up our 25th anniversary goal. there is a thin veil that stretches between wondering, that’s a very good thing.” us and the rest of the cosmos. Without

greatoldbroads.org 5 Win Broads The Power of a Broadwalk Wilderness 50 Quilt!

“I attended the Wild Olympics Broadwalk and it was just a moving experience for me. The Broadwalk represented a group of women that were actually multi-generational, from age 50 to 90s, all who had such a passion for wilderness. The speakers that we had, the people who led us on various trips, and the issues that we learned about, this was a tremendous experience for me. I was especially moved because the Olympics are very dear to me. I think the organization as a whole is a perfect fit for me. There is not any organization like it that I know of, that’s primarily women, older women, who have such a love for wild places like I do. It’s unusual. Broads really concentrates on protecting the wild places. Many others (organizations) have all kinds of things that they are working on, but I think the purity of Great Old Broads and their focus fits well with me.” ~ Reflections from Colette Rush, Polly Dyer Broadband Member shown here with dear friend and fellow Broad Louise Eutropius Assembled with love and immaculate artistry of Sue Gunckel, at her second Broadwalk in La Sal, Utah in May 2014. former Broads Board Member and Rio Grande Valley Broadband co-leader, this year’s Broads quilt is a beautiful compilation of incredible talent with contributions from more than a dozen quilting broads. To commemorate Wilderness 50, each block PEDAL OR PADDLE features a different wilderness area. • Quilt raffle tickets are available on our website or contact & GIVE BACK TO BROADS our office. • If you give a gift membership, we will enter your name (as many times as the number of membership gifts) as part of the quilt raffle drawing. • The drawing will take place on Friday, October 31, 2014. To purchase tickets on line, visit: http://bit.ly/1qlBqsw

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6 greatoldbroads.org Wrenched. Perhaps you can catch some of them at a Mountainfilm OnTour event near you. For more information, http:// THE BROADER www.mountainfilm.org/tour/upcoming

WILDERNESS Howling Good News for Wolf OR-7 and Kin

Against all odds, the now famous wandering male wolf, dubbed OR-7, has found a mate and produced pups. Also known as “Journey” for his 1,000-mile trek from northeastern to southwestern New EPA Power Oregon and into California, OR-7 Plant Rules Released provides inspiration and hope for the recovery of gray wolves in regions where they have been absent for On June 2, the Environmental Protec- 36th year, Mountainfilm’s Memorial Day decades. In an amazing coincidence, the tion Agency (EPA) released a proposal weekend event was stuffed full of films, announcement of OR-7’s paternity was for new rules setting the first national speakers, panels, authors, and activities made on the same day that the California carbon emission limits for existing such that there wasn’t a prayer you could Fish & Wildlife Commission voted to power plants. The plan aims to reduce experience it all. protect wolves against the advice of carbon emissions from power plants by the California Department of Fish and 30% over 2005 levels by 2030, providing Wildlife, since wolves were not yet states significant flexibility in how they residents of California. choose to meet the reductions. Power plants create an estimated 40% of all OR-7 and mate are currently protected CO2 emissions in the country. A study in both western Oregon and California from Harvard concludes that America’s under the federal Endangered Species coal use costs some $500 billion each Act but this protection may not last if year, so a decrease in coal provides the Obama administration’s proposal is direct benefits not only to health and the implemented to remove these protections environment, but to the economy. John everywhere in the lower 48 but in the Podesta, the Obama administration’s southwest where the Mexican gray wolf White House counselor and former struggles for survival. Historic estimates Clinton chief of staff, stated confidently, of up to 2 million wolves across most of “We’re committed to getting this done.” Executive Director Shelley Silbert and other notable the U.S. give context for a species that The rule now faces a year-long comment wilderness advocates discuss the future of Wilderness. numbers less than 5, 500 nationally and and review period. With wilderness, our are non-existent in many suitable habitats communities, and our very Earth under Broads were in good company with such as the southern Rockies. Clearly enormous threat from , wilderness partners and long-time it’s time to stand once again with the Broads such as the indomitable Katie EPA to support these rules. For more Lee and eco-warrior Dave Foreman. information, visit http://www2.epa.gov/ Executive Director Shelley Silbert carbon-pollution-standards/what-epa- presented as part of a panel entitled doing “Now What?” with Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams, The Wild Broads & Wilderness Foundation President Vance Martin, in the Spotlight at and Hilary Cooper, director of the Mountainfilm Festival locally based Sheep Mountain Alliance. Add in a Broads 25th Anniversary Reception, a Coffee & Conversation When Broads approached Mountainfilm presentation about Wise Women, tabling Festival staff to choose Wilderness as the at the Reading Frenzy, Ice Cream Social Oregon wolf OR-7 is a new father. Biologists confirmed that there are at least two pups. The pups theme for the 2014 Moving Mountains and Awards Picnic, and two surprise Symposium, we could only guess at mark the first wolf reproduction in western Oregon premiere showings of a short film about since the 1940s. how powerful it could be. It was a Recapture Canyon that sparked a lively perfect fit for the 5oth anniversary of Q & A session. As you can imagine, the we need to continue to advocate for the Wilderness Act. Mountainfilm is Broads staff was kept hopping. protections for wolves. In the meantime, dedicated to educating, inspiring, and we can find hope in the story of OR-7’s motivating audiences about issues Of the many amazing films shown, a unlikely “love connection” resulting that matter, cultures worth exploring, few we felt are especially important in the first breeding pair of wolves in environments worth preserving, and mention…Damnation, Dear Governor Oregon’s Cascade Range since the early conversations worth sustaining. In its Hickenlooper, Virunga, Mission Blue and 1900s.

greatoldbroads.org 7 WILDERNESS MATTERS! Celebrating the Wilderness50 Anniversary The celebration of the golden anniversary of the Wilderness Act is in full swing with more than 400 + events, exhibits and activities highlighting the diverse way Americans value the importance of wilderness and open spaces. Below is only a sampling of the events, both Broadband led activities as well as those listed on the Wilderness50 website. Whether on vacation, taking a cross-country roadtrip, or attending your annual family reunion, it is very likely you can find an event wherever you are and make it part of your summer and autumn fun. For more information, please visit: www.wilderness50th.org.

AUGUST Wilderness” exhibit during the month of 12th-14th: Campout at Wilderness September. The exhibit is co-sponsored Gateway Campground, ID 2nd: Maroon Bells Birthday Party, by the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Join Broads, Friends of the Clearwater, Aspen, CO Willamette Valley Broadband. and other wilderness groups in Idaho’s This one-day event will feature an Contact: Carol Savonen, Clearwater National Forest; Wilderness outdoor concert and community [email protected] Gateway Campground, ID celebration, preceded by a host of free Contact: Cindy Magnuson, daytime activities, all in honor of the 50th 3rd: South Park Plein Air Celebration [email protected] Anniversary of the Wilderness Act and “Wilderness50”, Fairplay, CO the establishment of the Maroon Bells- Snowmass Wilderness. Awards and John Fielder Slide Show 19th-20th: Celebration of Wilderness50 http://www.wilderness50th.org and Reception at the Fairplay-Valiton (block party), Bend, OR Hotel, Town of Fairplay and Southpark Broads join Oregon Natural Desert Contact: Will Roush, Broadband. [email protected] Association among other organizations Contact: Misi Ballard, as part of a public outdoor celebration for 6th: James Peak Wilderness [email protected] Wilderness 50. Music, booths, and food. Crater Lakes Trail 50 Wild Miles Contact: Rynda Clark, 3rd: Wilderness Act Birthday Hikes Challenge Hike, CO [email protected] (Hikes scheduled through October) in the Jedediah Mountain Wilderness, Teton Valley, WY Mile High Broads from the Denver-area 20th: Poets and Song for the Wild will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary Teton Valley Broadband’s WHALES will Olympia, WA sponsor several hikes into the Jedediah of The Wilderness Act with the ‘50 Poetry reading with well-known authors Smith Wilderness with their annual Wild Miles’ challenge and working such as Tim McNulty, Olympia’s own Epicurean Pot Luck (complete with 50th to accumulate 50+ hiking miles in Barbara Gibson, Lucia Perillo and Robert Anniversary birthday cake) and other designated Wilderness Areas. Michael Pyle; slide show and song by special activities. James Peak hike contact: Kids in Koncert, the Northwest’s premier [email protected] Contact: Janna Rankin, youth choir. [email protected] See greatoldbroads.org/co-mile-high Contact: Dorothy Gist, [email protected] for full schedule. 5th–7th: Gila Hot Springs Retreat Silver City, NM 21st: 50-mile hike for 50th Anniversary, 27th: Walk for Wilderness Pecos Wilderness, NM Aldo’s Silver City Broadband will Durango, CO sponsor a Gila Hot Springs Retreat at the The Four Corners Broadband joins Sangre New Mexico Broads, in Wilderness Lodge near Silver City, NM. San Juan Mountains Association, Four partnership with NM Wilderness Activities include hiking, guest speaker, Corners Backcountry Horsemen, and Alliance, will be hiking with a purpose camping or lodging available. and conducting a roadless-area inventory Mountain Waters Rafting to host a at Agua Piedra Creek in the Carson Contact: Stephanie Smith, morning of primitive skills demos, National Forest. There is a 50 mile hike [email protected] backcountry cooking contest, horse with resupply days. packing and river camping demos, Leave 6th: Oregon Wild 50th Celebration No Trace and a Story Walk for Kids. Contact: Cinny Green, Mt. Hood, OR [email protected] Contact: Ronni Egan, Cascade-Volcanoes Oregon Broads [email protected] SEPTEMBER will be joining conservation partners at Oregon Wild’s 50th anniversary 1st–25th: “Women in Wilderness” celebration at Mt. Hood’s Timberline (MORE! Next page) Exhibit, Brownsville Art Center, OR Lodge. The Brownsville Art Association is Contact: Shirley Stageberg, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the [email protected] Wilderness Act by hosting a “Women in

8 greatoldbroads.org OCTOBER Wild Reads for All Ages 15th: Ojito Wilderness Hikes: Making Wilderness a Reality, The 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act is being celebrated across the nation Albuquerque, NM with an amazing array of events, exhibits, contests, hikes, and even a half marathon! To help bibliophiles celebrate this milestone, Southpark (CO) Broadband Leader, Join the Rio Grand Valley Broadbands on Misi Ballard has graciously curated a book list of Wild Reads for fellow Broads hikes to hoodoos and a seismosaurus dig. as well as children. Like many Great Old Moms, Misi read nature stories to her Contact: Susan Ostlie, children when they were young (often while camping) to share with them the [email protected] experience, excitement and lure of wilderness through the written word. Celebrate wilderness with a Great Wilderness Read. Share the list far and wide; 23rd-30th, & Nov 6th, 13th & 20th perhaps with your favorite bookstore or library to create displays and reading “Wilderness Considered” Art Show, suggestions, or your book club. Share the idea of wilderness, especially with Moscow, ID children! Find the entire list (an evolving work in progress) at greatoldbroads.org/ Palouse Broadband is collaborating with wildreads. the Moscow City Arts Committee and Idaho Humanities Council in in presenting A sampling of Wild Reads for Adults: the “Wilderness Considered” Art Show. An Unspoken Hunger; Stories from the Field, (1994) Contact: Cindy Magnuson, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, David Abrams (2011) [email protected] Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey (1988) NOVEMBER Learning to Talk Bear: So Bears Can Listen, Roland Cheek (1997) 13th-16th: Central Arizona Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903) Mini-Broadwalk, Sierra Verde Our National Parks, John Muir (1901) Ranch area near Seligman, AZ The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder (2010) Join Phoenix, Flagstaff, and Prescott The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Erlich (1986) Broadbands for a work project with the US Forest Service in Prescott National Forest, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Amy Irvine (2008) Juniper Mesa Wilderness. Two in the Far North, Murie, Margaret E. Murie, Olaus Johan Murie, and Rafael D. Palacios (1962) Contact: Kathy Ann Walsh, [email protected] Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson (1998) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed (2012) 19th: John Fielder Slide Presentation, Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness, Anne LaBastille (1976) Grand Junction, CO Colorado Mesa University, Slide A sampling of Wild Reads chosen for Kindergarten–Grade 7: presentation on wilderness areas Aldo Leopold: American Ecologist, Peter Anderson (1995) co-sponsored by the Grand Junction Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Joyce Sidman; Beth Krommes (2006) Broadband. Chipmunk Song, Joanne Ryder; Lynne Cherry (1987) Contact: Sherry Schenk, [email protected] Citizen Scientists: Be Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard, Loree Griffin Burns; Ellen Harasimowicz (2012) For more information regarding Broadband Forest, What Would You Like?, Irene O’Garden; Pat Schories (2013) activities, please visit the Great Old Broads The Camping Trip That Changed America, Barb Rosenstock; Mordicai Gerstein (2012) website and specifically the Broadbands The Lorax, Dr. Seuss (1971) event calendar at http://greatoldbroads.org/ events/broadbands-events-calendar/ The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (1983) Wild for Wilderness Online Auction Needs You! Samantha, our auction coordinator is One of the most popular auction Or, if you know a business who will busy organizing the Broads 10th Annual categories is our homestay. Located in donate an item, that works too. Wild for Wilderness Online auction. This exotic cities, or remote, rural areas across For a copy of the online donation form, two-week auction is a major funding the country, they have been a consistent visit, greatoldbroads.org/join-or-donate/ source for Broads programs and with favorite. Consider hosting a homestay auction/auction-donation/ your help, we can meet our goal again. and meet new friends while supporting the Great Old Broads! Any questions, contact Samantha at Last year, the auction boasted more than [email protected]. 350 items and brought Broads more than Help us to make this another successful $60,000 for our programs to preserve and fundraiser for the Great Old Broads by protect wilderness and wild land. donating to the auction, or ask a friend.

greatoldbroads.org 9 UPDATES ON ISSUES THAT HAVE SEEN BROAD ACTION Broads Beat First New Wilderness in Five Years! incorporated into the existing uses of ast summer, former board organized hike in the dunes, and a scenic the Park resources. The establishment member Karen Fischer began drive while enjoying the camaraderie of a kayak/canoe water trail including planning of passionate Broads. campsites along the 35 miles of Lake a regional Rainy, even snowy, L Michigan shoreline in the park is now in Broadwalk at cold weather did not the works. Remarking upon the beauty Sleeping Bear Dunes dampen the experience. and grandeur of Sleeping Bear Dunes, in Michigan to Each evening, experts of Ann Kreilkamp (1989 founder of Chrone support wilderness local and park history Chronicles) exclaimed, “All weekend designation. Together shared stories about long, I felt utterly stunned.” with the national conservation with the office and with Jan group. President Steps up Reelitz, 3 Great Lakes Thursday, Assistant Broadband Leader, for Conservation Park Superintendent, the Broadwalk —Will Congress? Tom Ulrich spoke became a reality. about the wilderness resident Obama is at last Little did anyone effort, garnering moving forward with his State know that the bipartisan support of the Union promise to “use Sleeping Bear Dunes 3 Great Lakes Broadband and friends from contentious locals, my authority to protect more celebrate the designation of Wilderness at P National Lakeshore property owners, of our pristine federal lands for future Conservation and Sleeping Bear Dunes on Lake Michigan. communities, and generations.” Recreation Act would government officials. be signed into law March 13, 2014. With In March, he used executive authority Friday evening, Emily Shaw, Education approximately 32,500 acres of lands and under the 1906 Antiquities Act to add and Volunteer Coordinator for Inland waters designated as Wilderness, the 1,665 acres of Point Arena-Stornetta Seas Educational Association, spoke highest possible protection for public Public Lands to the 1,100 mile California with great enthusiasm about the need Coast National Monument. In May, he lands, this became the first wilderness to protect the quality of the waters of designated nearly 500,000 acres as the bill to be passed by Congress in more the Great Lakes, focusing on a current Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National than five years. What was initiated as an concern regarding microscopic plastics in Monument in southwestern New advocacy event became a celebration! the water that interfere with and affects Mexico. This brings to eleven the number From Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and all levels of life in the lakes. Saturday, of national monuments Obama has Wisconsin, more Sherry Hartung, designated so far across the country. Our beloved wild landscapes Sierra Club Michigan than a dozen At the New Mexico signing ceremony Great Old Broads face a plethora of threats... Chapter of the Beyond President Obama vowed “I’ve preserved and friends Coal Campaign, more than three million acres of land gathered May 15–18 for the Sleeping joined the group to for future generations. And I am not with the Bear Broadwalk, in a cozy cabin discuss energy issues in the Great Lakes finished.” He follows a long tradition— located in northwest Michigan near the areas. Kerry Kelly, President of Friends eight Republican and eight Democratic boundary of the park. Activities included of Sleeping Bear Dunes, explained presidents have protected lands through a beach cleanup work project, an how the new Wilderness area will be the Antiquities Act since President Theodore Roosevelt first exercised his right in 1906, using his executive powers Do you know how Sleeping Bear to protect public lands. Dunes got its name? While Congress has proven woefully Native American legend tells the story of a female bear who unwilling to move dozens of decides to swim from the western to the eastern shore of conservation and Wilderness bills Lake Michigan with her two young cubs. Unfortunately, by forward, the House once again voted the time mama bear had crawled ashore at the dunes, she by a narrow margin in March to gut the turned around and noticed that her cubs were not with her. Sadly, they had drowned Antiquities Act. Yet the Act has long en route. Forever after, the grieving mama bear would sit on top of the dunes, looking been a tool for the President to use when out at the lake, waiting for her cubs. The Great Spirit Manitou created two islands to Congress demonstrates an inability or mark the spot where the cubs disappeared and then created a solitary dune represent- unwillingness to meet the purpose of the law. While President Obama stresses the ing the faithful mama bear. More info at friendsofsleepingbear.org. (continued page 11)

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“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new Broads call on President Obama to Protect Greater Canyonlands from threats such as oil & gas development by designating a National Monument encompassing this unparalleled Redrock region. wilderness in the full positive economic impacts of public lands Cliven Bundy’s cattle trespass), and the sense of the word is for local communities, we most applaud Northern Montana Prairies are but a few impossible.” the protection it affords to America’s of the diverse areas being proposed for irreplaceable resources. protections. Without the Antiquities Act, we would not have Grand Canyon or —Aldo Leopold Our beloved wild landscapes face Grand Teton National Parks—at the time American ecologist, a plethora of threats from energy vehemently opposed by locals. These are forester, and development, mining, and motorized public lands belonging to ALL Americans environmentalist, abuse. Sometimes protection cannot regardless of residency. Let Congress considered to be father wait. Greater Canyonlands, San Rafael and the President know you support of American wildlife Swell and Cedar Mesa in Utah, Brown’s protective designations. management Canyon in Colorado, Gold Butte in Nevada (where deadbeat rancher

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greatoldbroads.org 11 Broadbands in Action ARIZONA Broads Partner with USFS in Many Ways Flagstaff Broadband Shelley Spalding, Broadband Flagstaff Broadband members, who, Circuit Rider, with Kent in partnership with the Sierra Club, Connaughton, Regional researched and wrote comments Forester, USFS Pacific regarding Northwest Region, at USFS the Coconino Region 6 Regional Leadership National Forest Team Meeting in Walla Walla, Plan revision, Washington. will participate in wilderness stewardship Tower of Broad Power! projects this Rio Grande Valley Broads summer from Albuquerque monitor for and fall, and wilderness character in four areas an October of the Magdalena Ranger District film festival in the Cibola National Forest to celebrate located in New Mexico. the 50th Flagstaff Broadband co-leader anniversary of Ilona Anderson spent Earth Day at the Grand Canyon. the Wilderness Act. Grand Canyon National Park invited Flagstaff Broads to table at their Earth Day Celebration in April. Broads talked to over 200 visitors that day about water conservation and the Colorado River USFS Region 6 (OR/WA) awarded Broads Marie Scott, NPS watershed, the Earth Day theme. funding to participate in the challenge Park Ranger, at the Sleeping by engaging volunteers in wilderness with the Bear Broads Roll Up Sleeves stewardship and communicating Broadwalk (see for 10 Year Wilderness wilderness values and benefits to page 10 for more Stewardship Challenge the public. In June, Shelley Spalding, information about Broadband Circuit Rider, attended the the Broadwalk and passage The goal of the 10YWSC is to elevate Region 6 Regional Leadership Team all of the more than 400 wilderness of wilderness Meeting in Walla Walla, Washington. legislation areas under the management and care Shelley was invited to a Wilderness- protecting the of the US Forest Service to a minimum focused day for USFS partners to share dunes!) stewardship level by 2014, the 50th their creative thinking and perspectives Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. The about wilderness stewardship issues and Broadband Activity USFS recognizes it cannot achieve this future opportunities. Calendar on Website goal alone and success depends upon Broads adventures begin where the partnerships. To participate in a volunteer stewardship project, check the Broadband Activity pavement ends—most of them anyway. Broadbands in Oregon, Washington, Calendar (see article at right). The If you have wanted to participate in a New Mexico and Arizona are working National Forest Foundation, chartered national office event and the activity type, with conservation partners this summer by congress, engages America in date, or location has not yet worked for and fall to help the USFS meet its community-based and national programs your schedule, consider participating in 10YWSC goals. Great Old Broads is that promote the health and public a local Broadband activity. Check out proud to partner with the New Mexico enjoyment of the 193-million acre our website for Broadband events. http:// Wilderness Alliance and Arizona National Forest System, and accepts greatoldbroads.org/events/broadbands- Wilderness Coalition as a recipient of and administers private gifts of funds events-calendar/ a Wilderness Stewardship Challenge and land for the benefit of the National award from the National Forest Forests. More information can be found GET INVOLVED! Foundation. at nationalforests.org and wilderness.net. Find your nearest Broadband at greatoldbroads.org/broadbands

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OREGON OSU Science Pub Focuses on the 50th! Per a suggestion from Carol Savonen, Willamette Valley Broadband Leader and Oregon State University (OSU) faculty emeritus, the Corvallis Science Pub at Corvallis’s Majestic Theater focused on the Wilderness Act and featured conservation biologist Cristina Eisenberg. She discussed why protected, intact wilderness matters even more today than it did in 1964, when the Teton Valley WHALES, Georgina Worthington, Kay McIlroy, and Katharine Act was signed. Shepard, look from the Big Hole Mountains across to the Jedediah Smith Addressing Wilderness Area and Grand Teton National Park. an audience of 150 people, WYOMING Eisenberg described her Teton Valley Broadband research shows that relatively Stepping Up in the Teton Valley intact, large Cyndi Anderson, Willamette Valley Broadband The Teton Valley Broadband, also known as WHALES might tracts of land are essential member, tabled at the OSU Science Pub premiering conjure up images of large marine mammals at first, but their bandanas showing all of Oregon’s designated WHALES is the Women’s Hiking and Literary Epicurean to creating Wilderness areas. Society, skillfully led by Janna Rankin and Elaine Simmons ecologically since 2004. Comprised of over 200 Teton Valley women from resilient landscapes. Such Idaho and Wyoming, the WHALES are active this spring. landscapes typically consist As one of the WHALES explain, “we are deep into planning of extensive protected of summer hikes, letter writing campaigns, and Wilderness wilderness such as the Anniversary activities.” The letter-writing has been one of Crown of the Continent the most important activities on such topics as Yellowstone’s Ecosystem, discussed in winter recreation plan, boundary changes to the Palisades her new book The Carnivore Wilderness Study Area, USFS travel management plan for the Way, in which she profiles Teton Valley, and the Wyoming Game and Fish proposal that a 28-million-acre landscape is pushing for a significant increase in kill quota for wolves. that is 90% federally This pod of WHALES bike and hike, read and eat. They do protected wilderness and so in all weather conditions while advocating for quiet use, is the most important wildlife, and ecosystem health. wildlife corridor in North America. Eisenberg reflected on the profound relevance of the Long-term advocates Janna and Elaine have talked extensively Wilderness Act and its legacy as we move into the brave new about Great Old Broads. They participated in a day-long HUD world of climate change. Sustainable Communities workshop to ensure that the voices of women who are incredibly active are heard in the midst of motorized vehicle folks. Janna, a retired attorney and natural STAY CONNECTED! resources law professor, spoke in as part of the Sign up for a Regional Broadband Activity Email List public library speaker series on the topic of the Wilderness Act and how those with disabilities can also access wilderness Now you can stay connected and learn of the many Broadband areas. The WHALES Broadband attended meetings with the activities, and other happenings when you sign up. Each Idaho Game & Fish Department discussing the placement of Broadband maintain email listservs called Google Groups bait near hiking trails and how that attracts black bears for for members in their area. For example, board member hunting (which also attracts grizzlies). They are also planning Cristina Harmon lives in northern Colorado. She wanted to activities in the Teton Valley celebrating the Wilderness stay informed about events and activities in the southern Act Anniversary with others as part of a local, broad-based portion of the state, so she signed up with the Four Corners coalition. Janna writes, “Our women are engaged and Broadband listserv. For the entire Broadband list, visit: http:// participate whenever we ask them to step up on an issue.” greatoldbroads.org/get-involved/broadbands. Or, email Amy, [email protected] to be included on the list of your choice.

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Great Old posturing and political zeal highlights the need for constant Broads vigilance from Broads and other public land watchdogs. documented conditions in Recapture Canyon comprises a small piece of the 22-million the canyon acres of federal land that BLM must manage in Utah with eight with GPS units agents and 16 rangers—2.7 million acres per agent and 1.4 and cameras million acres per ranger. Admittedly, the job is enormous and before and BLM lacks the resources to carry it out. after the May Yet lack of resources is all too frequently coupled with a 10th violation. lack of will. The agency’s history and culture, too lengthy to The trail had detail here, shows violations ignored, fees not recovered, and been slowly trespass legitimized after the fact. Unfortunately, that slippery recovering slope has recently accelerated in acts of willful violations by Broads monitor Recapture Canyon during the 25th after the armed militias and others. Anniversary Broadwalk in May. closure. Sadly, it has In June, a local resident in Escalante, Utah noted that area widened again to ATV width, with plants ripped apart, the ranchers are ground torn and eroding, and tracks crossing archaeological “going Cliven sites. Despite new BLM closure signs, motorized trespass has Bundy” on us. continued since the illegal ride. With increased disregard for BLM BLM vows to seek appropriate civil and criminal penalties grazing permit against participants in the ride and has contracted a new requirements, archaeological damage assessment. ranchers have In the early 1900s, President this perception Sadly, it has Theodore Roosevelt led a that these crusade with his Republican requirements will widened again to party to combat an era of not be enforced. ATV width, plants shortsighted plunder of Without forests, grasslands, and consequences for Photo: Andrew Gulliford ripped apart, minerals. He set aside 230 illegal action, it is million acres of forest reserves, Photographer Bill Hatcher examines the stump of a the ground torn 300-year-old juniper, cut during the 2006 illegal trail clearly past time parks, and other protected construction in Recapture Canyon. for the American and eroding, and areas. Roosevelt stated, “the people to challenge tracks crossing rights of the public to national the BLM to do their job and support the federal government resources outweigh private in carrying out the full responsibility of managing the lands archaeological rights, and must be given for the benefit of future generations. Let’s prove we’ve passed its first consideration.” As sites. the chaotic, shoot ‘em up, land grab era; it’s time instead for a such, Roosevelt recognized wild wild west that respects and protects the lands, water, and a responsibility to future wildlife for all Americans. generations. Arch rival, senator, and robber baron Senator William A. Clark saw it differently, stating, “those who succeed us can well take care of themselves.” The conflicts over western lands continue today with exactly the same vigor and rhetoric. Yet population density has increased dramatically, as have the precision and killing power of the weapons being brandished. Utah’s population today is 2.9 million compared to 277,000 in 1900. In 2012, Utah was the nation’s second most armed state. Some western residents chafe at constraints placed on private gain and personal desires for public lands. Periodically, the Sagebrush Rebellion rises up to change federal land policies, especially in relation to livestock grazing, mining, energy extraction, and motorized recreation. In 2013, the Utah and Idaho legislatures passed measures to turn federal lands over to states, and other states are considering similar actions. While these measures won’t stand up to legal challenge, such Courtesy Pat Bagley, Salt Lake City Tribune

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Our Broadbands, in addition to other several efforts: 1) the Steering Committee active members located across the of the Federal Forest Carbon Coalition, country, do the heavy lifting of locally- which brings together 70 organizations based activism. They attend agency to shift national forest policy to meetings, write letters and make minimize greenhouse gases, optimize recommendations. They carbon sequestration, and meet with legislators, and “...remember to recognize broader benefits participate in stewardship of public forest lands; Signing of the Wilderness Act on September activities on public lands. slow down, 2) the Protect Forests and 3, 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. To help those voices become breathe deeply, Connect Wildlife Delivery even stronger, we have Team of Sierra Club’s Our The Wilderness targeted a 25% growth in and recharge Wild America Campaign; 3) membership over the next two the founding committee Act of 1964 years, and expect a similar from the wild of a coalition working Section 2. (a) Wilderness System- percent increase in Broadband world of Nature to improve grazing Established Statement of Policy numbers. That increased management, and; 4) In order to assure that an increasing strength can only come from around us.” an associate of Up the population, accompanied by expand- River Endeavors, a ing settlement and growing mecha- consortium, addressing nization, does not occupy and mod- root causes of social ify all areas within the United States and environmental and its possessions, leaving no lands problems through designated for preservation and the cooperation and protection in their natural condition, cohesive power of it is hereby declared to be the poli- cy of the Congress to secure for the women. American people of present and future These partnerships generations the benefits of an enduring represent just a small resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a National portion of our work, Wilderness Preservation System to be but speak to ways composed of federally owned areas we can scale up our designated by Congress as “wilderness work and achieve goals at regional and

“..it is hereby declared Photo: Sendi Kalcic national levels. In this to be the policy of the you, our members, as you reach out to issue, you will read of the many ways we reach a broader Congress to secure for friends, invite them to work, play, and hope with us. (pun-intended) audience – among them, the American people of Telluride Mountainfilm, Wilderness 50, present and future gen- Our new Communications Director, and jumping once again into the frying M’Lissa Roulson, plays a key role in pan at Recapture Canyon. It’s a lot to erations the benefits of strengthening our voice and sharpening manage with a small staff, and it only an enduring resource of our message. M’Lissa joined us full- works when we can multiply our impact wilderness.” time in May, getting a crash course in through your grassroots activism and Broads history at our 25th anniversary local work. areas”, and these shall be adminis- Broadwalk in her first days on the job. tered for the use and enjoyment of the With fifteen years of public relations I ask for your support and commitment American people in such manner as and marketing experience, as well as her to this work. And, remember to slow will leave them unimpaired for future leadership in sparking what became a down, breathe deeply, and recharge use as wilderness, and so as to provide successful effort to Rally for the Valley from the wild world of Nature around for the protection of these areas, the and protect 860-acres at the gateway us. With each inhale and exhale, feel preservation of their wilderness char- the Earth breathing with you. Take that acter, and for the gathering and dis- to Telluride, CO from development, M’Lissa brings skill, drive, and playful energy and that love as fuel to power semination of information regarding you for the long haul. For me, this is the their use and enjoyment as wilderness; peals of laughter to our team. You will foundation of our collective strength. and no Federal lands shall be desig- soon see the fruits of her labor in an nated as “wilderness areas” except as upgraded website, stronger member provided for in this Act or by a subse- communications, increased media quent Act. attention, and enhanced partnerships. To review the entire document visit, Speaking of partnerships, Broads staff http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/ has joined the national leadership of legisAct#1

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