THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS Given that a 2005Government Western livestock industry. powerful in as itwas in1978duetothe BLM andisthesametoday and leasesadministeredby nearly 18,000grazingpermits animal unitmonthapplies to The current$1.35feeper administrative costs. cover amere15percent of current grazingrevenues grazing permitrenewals as of pendingapplicationsfor BLM toaddressthebacklog fees. Thefeewould allow along withcurrentgrazing one month)tobecollected (forage foracow/calfpair of $1peranimalunitmonth would chargeanadditionalfee permits onitslands.BLM of thecostsissuinggrazing Management torecover some allow theBureauofLand 3-year pilotprojectthatwould included languagefora Obama’s 2013budget advocates, President angering ranching environmentalists but Welcomed by on ourpocketbooks. on bothourlandscapesand the impactsofthisactivity of Broadsides,we discussed Wilderness. Inthelastissue for GreatOldBroads of theprimaryinterests lands hasalways beenone Livestock grazingonpublic BROADSIDESand RonniEgan by RoseChilcoat Change intheWest Livestock Grazing: Opportunities for fl uence of the uence ofthe or woodland?Notverypleasant. Forest, California. Have youevercampedinacow-pa An animalunitatLeavi assessment studies are Interestingly, BLMecological step intherightdirection. proposal isanencouraging grazing fees.Sothisbudget has beenunwillingtoreform now theObamaadministration challenge thesefees,butuntil conservation organizationsto Broads joinedwithfourother period. In2005,GreatOld by 78percentforthesame by private ranchersincreased while grazingfeescharged 40 percentfrom1980to2004, BLM grazingfeedecreasedby times. TheGAOfoundthatthe reform inthesebudget-busting would beagoodcandidatefor would thinkthatgrazingfees million infeerevenue, one programs buttookinonly$21 million toadministergrazing in 2004spentatleast$144 report foundfederalagencies Accountability O (continued on page 5) tt Creek, SierraNevadaTioyabe National ffi ce (GAO) Photo byGeorge Wuerthner. Donors Thanks 2011 Auction in Action Broadbands Wilderness Broader tt ied pasture Study ABroad Calendar Broads Beat Swampwalk In aBroadSense In thisissue: TRIPS AND VOLUME 22NO1 EV SPRI 2012 P AGE 6 12 E N 10 G 2012 N T

3 4 S 15 8 2 6 A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RONNI EGAN

Occupy wilderness? Of course wild land. We must, at all not! It says, right there in The times, refute the specious Wilderness Act: “man is a claims spouted by industrial visitor who does not remain.” interests and their political But we must occupy our allies. Wilderness is for Great Old Broads for Wilderness PO Box 2924 remaining public wild lands in people, and the people need Durango, CO 81302 the fi gurative sense of rising up to speak out! 970-385-9577 to protect them from industrial [email protected] exploitation, att empts at The problem is - in 2010, the greatoldbroads.org privatization, de-funding Supreme Court ruled that corporations are citizens! Staff of land Veronica Egan, Executive Director management Hard to fathom but it’s Rose Chilcoat, Associate Director true. The highly regrett able Joyce Thomsen, Membership Maven agencies, and N A Anne Benson, Comm. Coord. I Citizens United vs. FEC despoilation Elsa Jagniecki, Broadband Coord. Laurie Parkinson, Admin. Assoc. from poorly Supreme Court decision has resulted in scads of managed Board of Directors grazing and BROAD undisclosed corporate cash Karen Cox, CA - Chair inundating our electoral Sue Gunkel, NM - Treasurer recreation. Saralaine Millet, AZ SENSE system. And money talks Karen Ryman, CO - Secretary Many past and louder than people. Lois Snedden, NV current legislators and Shelley Spalding, WA - Vice Chair Lee Verner, CO many who aspire to Occupy It comes as public offi ce maintain no surprise Advisory Board that huge Steve Allen, Joe Breddan, Sally that we can’t aff ord Wilderness? Ferguson, Katie Fite, Dave to manage our public corporations Foreman, Maggie Fox, Steve lands, that some should be sold to the are fl ooding the Gilbert, Fred Goodsell, Ginger campaigns of their chosen candidates Harmon, Margi Hoff mann, highest bidder or worse, that federal and Vicky Hoover, Fran Hunt, state governments (that’s all of us) should in both national and local elections Cecelia Hurwich, Dale Johnson, with huge sums of money. Many of Frandee Johnson, Linda Liscom, not even own land. Protected wilderness Chuck McAfee, MB McAfee, and roadless lands are some of America’s these corporations have designs on Liz McCoy, Sarah Michael, Erin Moore, Marcey Olajos, Tim best ideas, and they represent a concept the natural resources contained in as yet undeveloped public lands, and if Peterson, Lynn Prebble, Marilyn that is unique in the world. Price-Reinbolt, Cindy Shogan, their chosen legislators and candidates Liz Thomas, Susan Tixier, Joro Sadly, a large proportion of our population prevail, we may see a roll-back of Walker, Melyssa Watson does not understand the benefi ts of current protections and even a “fi re Great Old Broads for Wilderness is protected wilderness. You know what I sale” of public lands. a national, non-profi t organization that uses the voices and activism mean: rich biodiversity, ecosystem services of elders to preserve and protect like clean water and air, opportunities for In Colorado, Republican Rep. Jerry wilderness and wild lands. Sonnenberg says he believes Colorado’s Conceived by older women who human recreation and renewal, and the love wilderness, Broads gives voice crucial lessons of interconnectedness and national forests would be in bett er hands to the millions of older Americans if they were managed by the state or who want to protect their public personal responsibility that wild places lands as Wilderness for this and have to teach us. It is the ones who do private individuals. The concept has future generations. We bring voice, been introduced in fi ve other Western knowledge, commitment, and not understand who are susceptible to humor to the movement to protect the rhetoric of privatization, believing states to date. our last wild places on earth. erroneously that protecting our natural Today, the Great Old Broads for This libertarian ideal was the rule in Wilderness has more than 4,500 heritage costs jobs or restricts individual the 19th century, and led to a free-for- members. You do not have to freedoms. be female, or old, or even great all of resource extraction ranging from for that matter! to join—but you must be “bold” for wilderness. Defenders of wilderness must help people the clear-cutt ing of forests to massive overgrazing to mining and petroleum Please join us on the adventure. understand the true benefi ts of healthy Wilderness needs your help! (continued on page 9) Please credit Broads for any reprinted articles. 2 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG FLORIDA BROADWALK ADVENTURES IN THE BIG CYPRESS SWAMP by Rose Chilcoat the 146,000 acres known as the A Swampwalk?! What on Earth “Addition Lands.” They recently is that? From Broads world completed a Management Plan headquarters in southwest for this area that has proven Colorado, going to an event to be controversial due to fi nal focusing on the Big Cypress recommendations for wilderness Swamp of Florida was akin to and ORV use. Emotions around going to the Moon! This was this have been running high defi nitely going expand our wild for decades as native Floridians lands experiences. JoAnn Valenti, strive to balance protecting the long-time Broad and our Florida remarkable lands they love with Broadband Leader exhorted us their desire to continue traditional to come to Florida to experience access and use. This is why the fi rsthand the many complex and Big Cypress is a “preserve” not a controversial environmental Yes, this is what we did in the Big Cypress Swamp! “park” even though the National issues that the Sunshine State’s Park Service administers it. dwindling wild lands and waters of the Everglades,” who has brought face. Fift een Broads from across att ention to the need to conserve this Aft er our introduction to the the country accepted the invitation remarkable landscape. Entering the place and issues, we dressed for and joined us for a memorable and narrow winding lane to our base camp our Swampwalk. Contrary to our magical weekend. we were embraced by the surreal, expectations, the footing was fi rm hauntingly beautiful bald cypress trees limestone rock not knee deep mud and Ronni and I found ourselves driving rising directly from the water. muck. The crystal clear water fl owed the Tamiami Trail across a landscape steadily in a constant sheet past plants that was unrelentingly fl at, grassy, and Hugs and laughter, greeting old friends fi rmly anchored to the ground below. liquid. Topographic relief was provided and making new ones. We sett led We were amazed by the experience by highway berms and borrow ditch into our rooms, cabins, and tents – hiking out into the swamp was canals. Birds of various shapes and and enjoyed the fi rst of our amazing something none of us would ever sizes draped themselves on the trees dinners, by the Camellia Street Grill have done alone. Our naturalists from and vegetation. Then without any in Everglades City, served al fresco Clyde’s Gallery were fabulous, sharing discernible change in topography, the under a “chikee” traditional shelter bits of natural history and oddities grass shift ed to a cypress forest. Small on a small patch of dry ground with a and patiently herding us along. changes in elevation in a limestone roaring campfi re and a full moon rising base have created a subtle and complex through the bare trees. Magical. Aft erward we visited with Clyde and combination of landscapes containing explored his breathtaking black and Aft er breakfast, Pedro Ramos, pinelands, prairies, marshes, hardwood white photography in the gallery Superintendent and knowledgeable, hammocks and cypress sloughs (www.clydebutcher.com). charming ambassador for Big Cypress found nowhere else on earth. Species (continued on page 14) National Preserve, talked about the diversity goes off the scale. history of the Preserve and specifi cally We neared our destination – Clyde Butcher’s Big For the Love of Big Cypress Cypress Gallery – one of the very by JoAnn Valenti “endangered” species); local hunters, many few parcels of Ph.D. and Florida Broadband Leader of whom are 7th generation Floridians; private land within environmentalists; repeat visitors to the Big Cypress Preserve in southwest Florida the boundaries area; and Preserve residents like renowned is not in salvage or savage condition. It is of Big Cypress photographer Clyde Butcher have worked one of the most pristine environments in National Preserve. tirelessly—make that with much tiredness— the U.S. Participants in Broads November Clyde is a renowned for decades to protect this very special piece Swampwalk can now att est to the Preserve’s of our state. photographer, billed wildness. Florida Natives (I am among this as the “Ansel Adams (continued on page 9)

GREATOLDBROADS.ORG SPRING 2012 3 Utah declares war on wild lands with the federal government. Given industrial megaload truck route. The current politics, we are not confi dent November action was not a permanent In his State of the State address, that the federal government will win as the corporation and others still Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert defi antly adequately stand up for the protection have their eye on the U.S. 12 route. declared that he will “fortify our state of wilderness and national park Lawsuits are ongoing in both Idaho as a bulwark against federal overreach” values. Also, Utah is talking about a and Montana regarding permits and fi ght the federal government to “legislative fi x” to sett le the issue. This that authorized the transport of the gain control over Utah’s wild public too is worrisome because it is unlikely megaloads. lands. The governor’s complaint that any fair legislation that addresses boils down to which governing body the RS 2477 problem would survive. There is also an ongoing Idaho Rivers has jurisdiction over backcountry A bill that does great harm could United vs. USFS & FHWA case that “highways.” certainly prevail. addresses the issue of megaload traffi c through the Lochsa-Clearwater Since then, the State of Utah has fi led We’re not sure who the Governor Wild & Scenic Rivers corridor via a notice of intent to sue over nearly thinks he’s representing by taking U.S.12. It is hoped this case, hinging 19,000 R.S. 2477 claims, the vast these actions. A just-completed on interpretation and application of majority of which are dirt two-tracks, the nation’s Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, cow paths, dry stream beds and will result in the banning of megaload abandoned prospector trails. Many transports on Idaho’s section of Broads Beat Updates on issues that have seen Broad action

Conservation in the West survey by U.S.12. If so, Montana will not see of these routes are in the America’s Colorado College found that 76% any megaloads on U.S.12 to Lolo and Redrock Wilderness Proposal of Utahns think that we can protect Hwy. 93 through Missoula either. championed by the Southern Utah air, water and land resources while This is an extremely important case Wilderness Alliance. The state’s (and at the same time maintaining a good with implications for Wild & Scenic counties’) purpose is to disqualify economy and more than 90% said corridors throughout the United this proposal from protection under that national parks and monuments States. This case will either strengthen the Wilderness Act or any other are both essential parts of the state’s or weaken the nation’s Wild & Scenic mechanism to protect public lands. economy and quality of life. Rivers Act. Many of the routes can be found within existing national parks! www.suwa.org/issues/phantom-roads- Fightinggoliath.org r-s-2477/ Several thousand of these claims are in Note: Our Weitas Wilderness the Greater Canyonlands area which Beating Goliath – Hwy. 12 Broadwalk this August is off Hwy. 12 is the focus of our Broadwalk this megaloads re-routed in the Clearwater Region of Idaho. September. Our Palouse/Moscow, ID Broadband more D The RS 2477 challenge stems from is in the thick of this eff ort and an 1860s law that allowed people celebrated a “win” this past November WANTED homesteading and mining in the West when Imperial/Exxon’s shipper to claim rights-of-ways for roads that Mammoet shift ed plans to send 300 they had constructed. The original megaload shipments through Idaho • A fuel-effi cient vehicle for staff use “revised statute 2477” was repealed and Montana via interstates rather • Volunteer Broadband Leaders in 1976 but existing rights-of-way than on scenic highways enroute to • Donations for our 2011 Wild for were grandfathered in. As a result, Canada’s destructive Tar Sands Oil Wilderness on-line auction the State of Utah, aligned with county Extraction sites. To donate a vehicle, call 970-385-9577. To governments, is trying to prove that inquire about being a Broadband Leader, these thousands of dirt routes qualify Broads and many others have been contact [email protected]. To donate as RS 2477 rights-of-way. fi ghting to prevent transformation of to our auction, go to greatoldbroads.org/ the pristine Wild & Scenic Lochsa- join-or-donate/auction or e-mail Sue at The suit will be fi led in mid June unless Clearwater U.S.12 corridor into an [email protected]. the state/counties work out a sett lement

4 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG Rock Creek mine appeal fails In November, the 9th Circuit Court PUBLIC LAND GRAZING PERMITS (Continued from page 1) of Appeals upheld a fi nding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service underway in six western regions that specifi cally ignore the eff ects of acted properly and in accordance livestock grazing as a possible factor in changing landscapes due to fear with the Endangered Species Act of lawsuits. This is in spite of the fact that livestock grazing is permitt ed by fi nding that the proposed Rock on two-thirds of all BLM lands, with 21,000 grazing allotments covering Creek mine “would entail ‘no adverse 157 million acres across the West. Even the BLM scientists protested the modifi cation’ to bull trout critical omission of livestock aff ects in the assessments. The Public Employees for habitat and would result in ‘no Environmental Responsibility (PEER) fi led a scientifi c integrity complaint jeopardy’ to grizzly bears.” against this in November 2011.

Aft er our 2007 Broadwalk on the In terms of the ecological eff ects of grazing, livestock production has Idaho/Montana border, Broads joined contributed to the decline of 22 percent of all threatened and endangered litigation opposing Revett Mineral’s species – almost as much as logging and mining combined! As taxpayers, silver and copper mine beneath we subsidize this destruction, losing at least $115 million annually in direct the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness costs. Additional uncounted costs for endangered species recovery, wildlife of Montana. Rock Creek Alliance; services, water quality improvement, noxious weed and erosion control bring Cabinet Resource Group; Earthworks; the cost to over $500 million per year. Alliance for the Wild Rockies; Natural Obama’s proposed 75 percent increase in fees to graze livestock on BLM Resources Defense Council; Trout lands drew fi re from some Western lawmakers and ranchers including Unlimited; Idaho Council of Trout Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), who is chairman of the House National Parks, Unlimited; and Pacifi c Rivers Council Forests and Public Lands Subcommitt ee, and Dustin Van Liew, who is with were partners in the appeal. the Public Lands Council and the National Catt lemen’s Beef Association. Read more about the mine and Van Liew said, “It’s fairly safe to say that this would force some number of its potential impact at www. ranchers out of business.” rockcreekalliance.org. Which leads to the next bit of good news, the Rural Economic Vitalization Lobo population up in 2011 Act (REVA H.R. 3432) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) on November 16, 2011. The possibility Lobos are off to a promising start this that Obama’s proposed fee, in the unlikely event that it is enacted, would year, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife cause some ranchers (only 6% of Western ranchers use public lands Service (USFWS) announced that there producing only 3 percent of U.S. beef) to go out of the ranching business are more Mexican wolves in the wild could give more impetus to REVA. This bill would allow federal grazing than last year, or any of the last fi ve permitt ees to voluntarily relinquish their grazing permits to be permanently years. The numbers increased from 50 retired in exchange for third-party compensation. Current antiquated federal at the end of 2010 to 58 at the end of law generally precludes the closing of grazing allotments to benefi t fi sh, 2011, and there are now six breeding wildlife, and watersheds. Compensation for retired permits would come, pairs; only two were reported last year. not from taxpayers, but from conservation organizations that see benefi ts for A population of 58 wolves is still endangered species, ecosystem health, or the recreating public. extremely small and at risk from The goal of REVA is to help wildlife and wild lands while also helping family threats such as disease, inbreeding, or farmers, ranchers, and taxpayers. For ranchers who are barely surviving catastrophic events like the Wallow economically or who are older, with no children willing to wrangle a grazing Fire, which burned through Mexican operation, REVA would provide a way out. wolf habitat last year. USFWS Regional Director Tuggle promised to release Legislated retirement of grazing permits has already occurred on Steens more wolves this year, but he made Mountain and in the Owyhee in Oregon. Broads has been a supporter of the same promise last year and no new the permit buyout concept for many years and we hope it will continue to wolves were released into the wild. be used in future public lands bills. We’ve been contacted by a number of ranchers who are “ready to quit” and would welcome the opportunity to sell Our New Mexico and Arizona their permits and have them retired. Broadbands actively support work to recover the lobos. Regardless of where you live, you can help by talking with your friends about public lands grazing. More importantly, write, call, or meet with your mexicanwolves.org/ Congressional delegation. Educate them about the facts. Tell them you are tired of subsidizing private livestock producers and seeing public lands despoiled. Ask them to insist on recovery of grazing costs and to support the Rural Economic Vitalization Act.

GREATOLDBROADS.ORG SPRING 2012 5 River Trip Hike or River Raft Trip FUNdraiser Yampa River Raft Trip FUNdraiser – 4-day Rogue River Lodge to Location: Dinosaur National Monument, Lodge Hike or Raft with ROW Adventures Colorado and Utah (Meet at Vernal, UT) Location: Merlin, OR Launch Date: June 8, 2012 Dates: June 10-13, 2012 Cost: $895 ($295 is deductible as a chari- Cost: $965 ($200 is deductible as a chari- table contribution to Broads) table contribution)

Join Holiday Expeditions and Broads ED Ron- Love the idea of a river trip but aren’t ni Egan for this 4-day rafting trip down the sure about camping anymore? This Yampa River. The Yampa is WILD. It’s the unique trip is for you – outdoor rafting Weitas Creek photo courtesy of Friends of the Clearwater. last undammed river in the Colorado River or hiking each day in remote and scenic system. Through the years the Yampa has canyons coupled with the comfort of a Broadwalk lodge at night. Join other Broads and defi ed many attempts to dam its free fl ow, Broads Associate Director, Rose Chil- Weitas Wilderness Broadwalk several by congress, and the most formida- coat for this wild adventure. All set in Location: near Lowell, ID ble in 1965 by Mother Nature. Just after din- a stunning wilderness background on Dates: August 2-6, 2012 ner on June 10th, a fl ash fl ood carried tons SW Oregon’s legendary Rogue River. Cost: members* $125/non-members $150 of rock down Warm Springs draw blocking The Great Old Broads for Wilderness 2012 Calendar of Events

the river channel. Within 24 hours the Yampa The Rogue was one of the original Includes 4 nights camping, breakfast/ took aim and breached the dam, leaving in Wild & Scenic Rivers in 1968 because dinner each day, hikes, speakers, service its wake Warm Springs Rapid, rated among of its beauty, vast repertoire of wildlife project and more! For non-campers lodg- the 10 biggest drops in the country. (otter, black bear, deer, osprey, eagle, ing is available in Lowell at your own steelhead, and salmon) and diverse lush expense. Every May and June this fl ora unmatched Our Palouse Broadband in Moscow, ID river rises to the occasion anywhere in the created this opportunity on the Clearwa- and CRANKS with plenty Pacifi c North- ter National Forest in partnership with of full-bodied waves west. From the the Friends of the Clearwater to learn from the fi rst day to Cascades to the about and work for wilderness designa- the last. Like many wild ocean you’ll travel tion of places such as the 260,000-acre 40 miles of river things, the Yampa also Weitas Creek Roadless Area. This low- with over 80 rap- has a serene side…miles elevation, broad river valley provides ids. Legislation is of white tiger-striped habitat for species like grey wolves, before Congress walls that drop 2,000 wolverines, black bear, cougar, elk, deer, now to designate feet sheer to the water, and west-slope cutthroat trout along more wilderness side-canyon waterfalls, with an abundance of solitude and chal- along the Rogue Ancestral Puebloan lenge for humans. and increase miles rock art, and whispering under Wild & caves. We will spend 46 The Selway-Bitteroot Wilderness and Hike or Scenic status. miles of this 71-mile trip raft the Wild & Scenic Lochsa and Selway Rivers on the Yampa and then Rogue provide the backdrop for our long week- River Participants can end where we’ll learn about the wild merge with the Green with choose to hike beauty of the landscape and the threats River at Echo Park for Broads along the river or the balance through and and challenges it faces. ROW be on the rafts, Whirlpool Canyon and or a combination Adven. Register by sending payment to Broads Split Mountain Gorge. thereof. Lodges offi ce or visit our Broadwalk page at If you feel the need for are basic but com- greatoldbroads.org/events/broadwalks something rare, some- fortable, set in to link to our on-line shopping cart. thing wild and free…the Yampa is waiting. remote wilderness along the river. Sign up through ROW Adventures www. * member rate applies to current mem- To sign up for this amazing, Broad adven- rowadventures.com 800-451-6034. bers of Broads or Friends of the Clear- ture, contact Holiday Expeditions – 800- water 624-6323. more D

6 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG Park. President Obama has the power Broadwalk Register by sending payment to Broads to protect the 1.4 million acres of public offi ce or visit our Broadwalk page at Protect Greater Canyonlands Broadwalk BLM land surrounding Canyonlands Na- greatoldbroads.org/events/broadwalks Location: Indian Creek near Monticello, UT tional Park with the stroke of a pen – if to link to our on-line shopping cart. Dates: September 27 – October 1, 2012 we can convince him to do so. But so far, Cost: members $125/non-members $150 the Obama administration has continued to defend President Bush’s plans that Annual On-Line Auction Includes 4 nights camping, breakfast/din- leave this area open to rampant off -road ner each day, hikes, speakers, service vehicle abuse, proposed uranium and Wild for Wilderness On-line Auction project and more! tar sand mining, and oil and gas develop- Dates: October 29-November 11, 2012 ment. Location: auction.greatoldbroads.org The Greater Canyonlands area is a landscape of plateaus, stunning geologic Join us for a long weekend of adventure, Just in time for your holiday shopping formations, 10,000 year old archeologi- learning, and fun as we learn about the or a bit of self-indulgence, Great Old cal sites, and unmatched natural beauty threats to this region and the strategies Broads for Wilderness is hosting our 8th — including iconic Utah landmarks such for gaining real protection. The Greater annual Wild for Wilderness On-line Auc- as Labyrinth Canyon, Indian Creek, White Canyonlands Coalition includes Sierra tion. Funds raised are used to support Canyon, Fiddler Butte, Robbers Roost, Club, Natural Resources Defense Coun- Great Old Broads’ wilderness advocacy Lockhart Basin and the Dirty Devil River. cil, National Parks Conservation Associa- work.

The area encompasses 1.4 million acres tion, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, It’s not too early to donate an item! Go of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and to greatoldbroads.org/ join-or-donate/ land surrounding Canyonlands National Coloradans for Utah Wilderness auction/auction-donation.

P LANNED G I V I N G M EANS WILDERNESS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME Future generations are depending on us. If humans are to survive on this amazing blue planet, we need to get serious about leaving a legacy of a healthy environment. Resource development, recreation excesses, and just plain human encroachment all pose threats to biodiversity, climate stability, and peace of mind. Your gift to Great Old Broads for Wilderness helps build a steady foundation for us as we stand fi rm in our advocacy of wild public lands. You may also save on estate taxes and be able to leave more to your heirs. There are many mutually benefi cial ways for you to support Great Old Broads for Wilderness through planned giving. Talk to your Financial Advisor about these options. • Bequest • Retirement Plan • Life Insurance Other options to discuss Include us in your will Name us on your plan and Write a new policy with with your Financial Advi- with a gift of cash, prop- avoid income tax on the Great Old Broads for Wil- sor include: erty, or a portion of the plan’s assets derness as a benefi ciary • Pooled Income Fund estate • Real Estate Gift s or donate all or part of an • Charitable Gift Annuity • Appreciated Securities Stay in your home while existing policy • Charitable Remainder Avoid capital gains tax by avoiding capital gains tax Unitrust making a gift and leaving more to your heirs We’d love to know if you’ve included Broads in your estate plan!

GREATOLDBROADS.ORG SPRING 2012 7 “I couldn’t resist Study A Broad: (Of Gr Anne H. Ehrlich - From the Inside, Out

Growing up, Anne birds worldwide, and rose through the ranks Ehrlich wasn’t really the implications for of academia to become an outdoor kind of kid. civilization’s future. a Senior Research But that litt le detail Associate in 1975. didn’t stop the adult A reviewer for the Having been involved Anne from becoming Center for Conservation with the CCB since its a powerful voice for Biology (CCB), a inception, Anne stepped the environment. As a program founded by into the Associate scientist, researcher, and Paul at Stanford in 1984, Director/Policy writer, she infl uenced says of the Ehrlichs’ Coordinator position in national policy as 2004 off ering, One 1987 and continues in one of seven outside with Nineveh: Politics, that capacity. consultants to the Consumption and the White House Council Human Future: “With Aft er living in faculty on Environmental unfl inching clarity and housing on campus Quality’s Global 2000 directness, it exposes for many years, the Anne Ehrlich photo by Anne Report (1980); carried Hamersky. the three elephants in couple recently moved out research and co- our proverbial living off campus to a nearby authored many technical room--overpopulation, retirement community. articles in population biology; writes overconsumption, and When asked extensively on issues of public political and economic if she got concern such as human population inequity--that together are outdoors growth, environmental protection, increasingly determining much, Anne and environmental consequences today’s politics and responded, of nuclear war; and is co-author of shaping humankind’s “I married a a dozen books. When asked if the future. The Ehrlichs warn fi eld biologist. current administration has access to that the hubris of our What do you think?” She’s her books, she said, “certainly, since own civilization could also been known to do some President Obama’s science advisor was be leading us to an end fi eld work, herself. These a co-author of several of them.” similar to Nineveh’s. days, she and Paul still spend Thankfully, the Ehrlichs several weeks each summer From 1981 to 2000, she taught a course also point toward a at the Rocky Mountain in environmental policy for Stanford’s way out of this mess we’ve gott en Biological Lab near Crested Butt e, Human Biology Program, and since ourselves into. Perhaps One with Colorado. “Working vacations,” she 2000 has Nineveh would be quipped, adding, “the computers co-taught When asked if the current an appropriate always come with us.” a freshman summer read or seminar with administration has access to re-read in this Along with summer student projects, husband, Paul her books, she said, “certain- election year. the renowned lab hosts environmental Ehrlich. She biologists from around the world is currently ly, since President Obama’s Born and raised working on a wide array of projects. working on science advisor was a co-au- in Des Moines, One focus of the lab is on the Iowa, Anne met interactions between pollinators, such a book, with thor of several of them.” Paul and and married Paul as birds, bees, and moths, and the a Mexican while att ending plants they visit. And it is particularly colleague, the University of well known for a decades-long that is scheduled to be published a Kansas. Her career in the biological research project on global warming. year from now, about the accelerating sciences at Stanford University started Along with studying the ecology of rates of extinction of mammals and in 1962 as a research assistant. She bird and butt erfl y populations, the

8 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG the name.” reat Old Broads for Wilderness) LOVE OF CYPRESS Continued from page 3

There are no simple or generic Ehrlichs enjoy interacting solutions to complex problems Anne and with scientists from other such as reconciling nature Paul on Copper Creek institutions during their preservation with human Road above summers in the Colorado enterprise. Intricate, historically- the Rocky Rockies. evolved social, political, and Mountain agricultural issues challenge a Biological Lab, Anne joined Broads in the fall 8 miles from one-size-fi ts-all mindset. Sharing Crested Butt e, of 1999 aft er Lois Snedden, land can have unintended Colorado. past president and current consequences but one must keep member of Broads Board of in mind that degradation of Directors, showed her one of natural habitats is not always a our newslett ers. At the time, result. Ecologists are in confl ict Lois and Anne were both on over the strategies of land sharing the Board for the Sierra Club. versus land sparing. Sett ing our “I couldn’t resist the name,” sights on species richness alone Anne said. can be simplistic, although in the Though we haven’t been able case of Big Cypress, populations to entice her onto one of our of the now hybrid Florida panther Broadwalks or other outdoor (mixed with some much needed adventures, the fruit of Anne’s Texas cougar DNA) and the indoor pursuits makes her near once endangered wood stork and dear to our Broad hearts. have rebounded over recent years. Gators, orchids, and a - Anne Benson breathtaking diversity of fl ora and fauna abound.

A range of management practices is oft en needed to fully consider, understand, and evaluate best BROAD SENSE: OCCUPY WILDERNESS? outcomes. In Florida, we struggle Continued from page 2 against centuries of abuse from development without regard to our historic monuments and trails, outsider politicians focused on the health of air, water, and soil or and managing them for profi t. It’s profi ts from extraction industries and wetlands development and wildlife. The buff alo and wolves enough to make your hair turn gray. even Mouseketeers. Now aft er disappeared, as did the Passenger Oh, right, it probably already has! many years of mismanagement Pigeon. So, while we may not be able to and sometimes violent struggle, sustaining what Big Cypress is Today these same animals (except, set up permanent housekeeping in to us who know and care deeply of course, the extinct Passenger our favorite wilderness areas, we about this unique Florida swamp Pigeon) are still being crushed still need to elect representatives is, we feel, now in good hands to benefi t a few members of the who serve the people and the under the watch of Preserve powerful livestock industry, and this great nation we live in, and not Superintendent Pedro Ramos and is just one example of how moneyed corporate masters who require his staff . Misguided, distracting interests infl uence management regulatory favors and privatization lawsuits serve only to fi ll the tills on our public lands. Just imagine of resources in return for their of att orneys and take valuable time and resources away from the wealthiest 1% buying up our largesse. Our wild places can’t be continuing eff orts to protect the national forests and grasslands, bought! Preserve.

GREATOLDBROADS.ORG SPRING 2012 9 Western voters value public Survey results are a sharp contrast lands and protecting them to the energy and environmental debates currently happening in The results from the 2012 Colorado Washington, and in many state California’s lone(ly) wolf College State of the Rockies capitals. “Western voters consistently Conservation in the West poll fi nd believe that conservation helps create The California Dept. of Fish & Game, that western voters across the political and many wolf fans, are tracking and protect jobs for their states,” said spectrum – from Tea Party supporters Dave Metz. “In fact, by a 17-point the state’s only known wild wolf, a to those who identify with the Occupy 2.5-year-old male named Journey margin, voters are more likely to say movement and all those in between – that environmental regulations have (offi cially known as OR-7). On believe the U.S. does not have to choose December 8, 2011, a gray wolf entered a positive impact on jobs in their state between environment and economy. rather than a negative one.” California from Oregon and has They view parks and public lands as traveled southeast through Siskiyou, essential to their state’s economy, and Seven in 10 Western voters support Shasta, and Lassen counties. In doing support upholding and strengthening implementation of the Clean Air Act, so, he passed through public lands protections for clean air, clean water, and updating clean air standards. managed by the Forest Service (Modoc natural areas, and wildlife. They see regulations designed to National Forest, Lassen National protect land, air, water and wildlife as Forest and Shasta-Trinity National The survey, completed in Arizona, having positive impact Forest), the National Park Service Colorado, Montana, New on public safety (70 (Lava Beds National Monument), and Mexico, percent), the natural the Bureau of Land Management beauty of their state (Alturas Field Offi ce (79 percent) and and Eagle their quality of life Lake Field (72 percent). Offi ce). “What we read As of in the press and February 9, what politicians 2012, he had THE BROADER say about an ever- padded across sharpening trade- numerous off between wild places, WILDERNESS environment including and jobs in a inventoried deep recession roadless areas, do not square proposed with views of wilderness many western areas, national voters,” monument said Colorado designated College economist and State of the wilderness, and Utah, and Rockies Project faculty director wilderness study Wyoming by Lori Weigel of Walt Hecox, PhD. “Instead, those areas. Is there a Public Opinion Strategies (a Republican stubborn westerners continue to defy patt ern here? Journey’s passing across fi rm) and Dave Metz of Fairbank, stereotypes, by arguing that a livable these roadless lands is a reminder Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates environment and well-managed of the importance of our collective (a Democratic fi rm), found that four public lands can be -- in fact must be -- work to defend the Roadless Area in fi ve western voters view having a compatible with a strong economy.” Conservation Rule, identify and strong economy and protecting land defend previously unmapped BLM and water as compatible. The survey results echo the sentiments and FS roadless areas, and pass of more than 100 economists, wilderness bills. We all look forward Two-thirds of Western voters say including three Nobel Laureates to the day when these places will be America’s energy policy should and Dr. Hecox, who recently sent a protected as designated wilderness prioritize expanding use of clean lett er to President Obama urging him and when wild wolves in California renewable energy and reducing our to create and invest in new federal will no longer be noteworthy. need for more coal, oil, and gas. Even protected lands such as national in states like Wyoming and Montana, parks, wilderness, and monuments. For more information including a map which are more oft en associated with Studies have shown that together with of Journey’s travels, visit www.dfg. fossil fuels, voters view renewable investment in education and access to ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/wolf. energy as a local job creator. more D

10 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG and air polluting, habitat destroying, health threatening, climate changing tar sands oil production. Never think that your voice, your concern won’t matt er. As Ghandi said, “ Whatever you do may seem insignifi cant, but it is most important that you do it.”

Western states coordinate regional wildlife habitat data

In June 2010, governors from 17 Western states committ ed to having their states complete regionally compatible assessments of crucial wildlife habitat. Recognizing that wildlife habitat as well as energy, transportation, and land development projects cut across state lines, the Western Governors’ Association developed the Western Wildlife Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (CHAT) in an att empt to bring A bunch of western voters in 1999 - Ginger Harmon, Susan Tixier, Edie Pierpont, Frandee Johnson, and greater certainty and predictability to Dott ie Fox - These original Great Old Broads knew the importance of educating politicians. planning eff orts. The idea is to weave information from individual states into a regional markets, protected public lands are conservation. www2.coloradocollege. wildlife habitat assessment to be signifi cant contributors to economic edu/stateoft herockies/ available to the public in 2013. growth. conservationinthewestsurvey_e.html has all the results broken down by Arizona, Montana, and Washington Similarly, western voters voiced state, topic, and voters. have developed their state-specifi c support for continued funding of data, and a regional-level data set conservation, indicating that even Keystone XL – is now available that covers several with tight state budgets, they want states in the southern Great Plains. to maintain investments in parks, Let’s not underestimate the power water, and wildlife protection. When of the people – that would be you In mid January, the Bureau of Land specifi c local issues were tested and me. Bill McKibben, 350.org, and Management announced that it will use with voters in some states – such as several thousand demonstrators the state and regional data and maps increasing the state’s renewable energy at the White House got President developed through the CHAT process standard in Montana, establishing Obama’s att ention leading to the to help it identify wildlife corridors national monument protections for the Adminstration’s decision to deny and crucial habitat in future land-use Arkansas River canyon in Colorado, the Keystone XL pipeline permit in planning and management eff orts. and updating energy standards for January. The pipeline is proposed to new homes in Utah – voters want to connect Canada’s dirty tar sands crude For more information, visit the actually strengthen protections. oil with Texas refi neries all in the Western Governors’ Association site at name of Big Oil profi ts and purported www.westgov.org/initiatives/wildlife. While there are geographic and jobs. Big Oil is fi ghting back hard partisan distinctions on a number trying to get Congress to circumvent Wilderness Bills in 112th Congress on of key issues, such as energy due process and the National page 13 development on public lands, the Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). data show that the broad conservation values uniting westerners are much Success in stopping this fi asco will be more prevalent than the occasional due to the voices of individuals like issues that divide them. you communicating with members of Congress making sure they hear Obviously, we need to make what we want: clean air, clean water, our wishes bett er known to the and movement towards clean energy decision makers. Use this survey rather than continued bowing to Big data to support your desire for Oil and the real impacts of water

GREATOLDBROADS.ORG SPRING 2012 11 Broadbands post nearly 10,000 hours volunteer crew of 16 people from the Four Corners area, including Bluff , Cortez, Durango, and Telluride. Supervised Elsa, our Broadband Coordinator, is proud to by a BLM archaeologist and two BLM law enforcement report that Broadbands posted 9,545 hours of rangers, the volunteers fi nished the clean-up in 5 hours, volunteer service in 2011. These hours, whether hauling out bag aft er bag of trash fi lling the beds of two spent organizing an event, writing a lett er pickup trucks, closing an illegally created spur road, and to the editor, perched on the steps of a state posting BLM signs. capitol, clearing trails in our national forests, or even developing the report to send to Broads Four young adults were among the volunteers, including Headquarters, were hours spent in pursuit of two exchange students from Thailand and Ecuador. healthy public lands. Go Broads! In October, Broadband co-leader, Holly Rankin, and two Four Corners Broadband (AZ, CO, NM, UT) friends joined BLM employees to re-vegetate a newly The Broadband installed vault toilet and recently joined with decommission an old road in others to clean up the Indian Creek area near trash left behind by Canyonlands National Park. The public land users group toiled faithfully under in a thousand-year- the hot autumn sun, moving old prehistoric cliff rocks for barriers, installing dwelling in Utah. scrub for screening on the road, BLM volunteer Lynell and transplanting some native Schalk coordinated vegetation to bare areas. They the eff ort. Two learned a few things on the way,

in Action years ago she fi rst made some new friends and saw discovered the some incredible country. A nice trash and off ered Four Corners Broadband members cleaned up the Dance Hall plus was that the ATV use was s Ruin site near Blanding, UT. to help cleanup minimal during the weekend, Dance Hall Ruin, an rather than the expected rip- archaeological site west of Blanding but got no roaring, ear-splitt ing weekend of camping. d response from the BLM. Boise and Palouse Broadbands (ID) More recently she revisited Dance Hall Ruin and Five members of the Boise Broadband protested tar sands was appalled at the amount of new damage and megaloads on the steps of the state Capitol last March. Anne dumped trash. The prehistoric room blocks had Olden, Carol Weins, Ann McClanahan, Sandy Carter, and been used as a paint ball war site, with bright Kathleen Fahey wrote personal colored splotches of lett ers to the governor and paint dott ing the ancient delivered them personally. While ruin walls. Logs had Ban at the Capitol, they took it further been dragged into the by ‘marching’ with their signs of site to use as seating protest on the steps. The megaloads around several recently d were slated for transport up constructed fi re rings Highway 12, an historical route of that included rocks the Lewis & Clark Trail. from the ruin’s walls. Baby’s diapers, broken The Palouse Broadband has been beer bott les, three large involved with this issue from the house wall panels…the get-go. And they had some great site was trashed. news to report in November when permits to ship these huge loads Schalk approached the up state highways was denied. BLM again, and this Members of the Boise Broadband, Anne Olden, Carol Weins, (More in Broads Beat on page 4 of time, was encouraged Ann McClanahan, Sandy Carter, and Kathleen Fahey, brought their protest of megaload shipments on Highway 12 this issue.)

Broa to organize our to the state Capitol last March. more D 12 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG The megaload opponents were applauded in the Lewiston-Tribune newspaper for boosting the local economy. Palouse Broadband leader Cindy Magnuson wrote, “In his much-enjoyed annual ‘Cheers and Jeers’ column, Lewiston Tribune editorialist Marty Trilhasse credits megaload opponents -- yes YOU -- with causing Exxon to cut up its Port-parked modules at a cost of $500,000 each and, thereby, bringing moolah to Lewiston- Clarkston.”

Trilhasse wrote, “Specialized crews brought into the valley to perform this work spent a lot of cash on housing, hotel rooms and RV parks. They rented equipment. They hired local earth-moving workers. They ate at restaurants. The Four Corners Broadband entered a fl oat in Durango’s annual And when these people weren’t working, they were Snowdown parade. The theme this year was “Fairy Tales,” which gave them the opportunity to don their granny, red riding hood, and wolf costumes spending money on everything from fi shing tackle to for a howling good time. The fl oat featured a rescue wolf who was a sweet propane. What would you call that?” he wrote. “Green addition to the eff orts to debunk the myth of the big bad wolf. jobs?” • S.322*/H.R.608^ Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Broader Wilderness Act, introduced by Sen. Patt y Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) to add 22,100 acres to the Alpine continued from page 11 Lakes Wilderness and designate parts of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie and Pratt Rivers as Wild and Scenic Wilderness bills in 112th Congress • S.667*/H.R.1241^ Rio Grande del Norte National In spite of polarization and anti-environment sentiments, Conservation Area Establishment Act, introduced by Sen. some forward momentum has occurred in Congress Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Ben Lujan (both D-NM) to protect with wilderness legislation. Here are some of the most as a conservation area some 235,000 acres northwest of Taos, promising to date. *These bills have passed out of the including more than 21,000 acres of designated wilderness Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committ ee and await Senate action. Those marked with ^ have also had • S.766*/H.R.1413^ Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Act of testimony in the House Natural Resources Subcommitt ee 2011, introduced by Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. Rep. Peter DeFazio (all D-OR) to safeguard nearly 30,000 acres on Wassen Creek in Oregon’s Coast Range • S.140*/ H.R. 977^ Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act, introduced by • S.1090* Tennessee Wilderness Act, introduced by Sens. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow (both D-MI) and Rep. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker (both R-TN) to protect Bill Huizenga (R-MI) to protect more than 32,500 acres in the nearly 20,000 acres of wilderness in the Cherokee NF Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan • S.1574/H.R. 41^ Beauty Mountain and Agua Tibia Wilderness Act of 2011, introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R- Broadband Leader Boot Camp CA) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to protect 21,000 acres in north San Diego County Each spring, Broads invites leader-types from around • H.R. 113^ Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests the country to train as Broadband Leaders. Participants Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), are trained in grassroots organization, communication, to designate approximately 18,000 acres of the two forests lobbying skills, wilderness history, documentation of near Los Angeles on-the-ground abuses, and Broads positions on issues • H.R. 490^ Manzano Wilderness Addition, sponsored such as grazing, off -road vehicles, and oil, gas, and by Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), to expand by nearly 900 mineral development. The training runs for three full acres the existing Manzano Mountain Wilderness in the days and four evenings over a working weekend. To south end of the Cibola NF near Albuquerque apply to next year’s Boot Camp, fi ll out our on-line form at greatoldbroads.org/get-involved/broadbands/ Your voice of support is needed for these proposals to become reality. Status of legislation involving wilderness boot-camp-ap/. For more information, contact rose@ (83 in this Congress) can be found at www.govtrack.us/ greatoldbroads.org. congress/legislation.xpd.

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Continued from page 3 att acked the vegetation with gusto and Next day found us canoeing the Turner Next was a tram tour of Shark Valley in a few short hours we had thinned our River upstream against a gentle current. in the adjacent Everglades National designated areas and created massive Alligator sightings were more frequent. Park; so close yet so totally diff erent. piles of vegetation to be hauled away. It Downstream, oceanward, we entered Large vistas of open grass dott ed with was a satisfying endeavor. close tunnels of mangroves draped in hammocks of trees and vegetation. bromeliads and orchids. Surreal… Alligators basked on the roadside. Aft er our work project we scatt ered From the observation tower, we saw its - for naps and relaxation. Some joined Our aft ernoon focus shift ed to human immensity…endless views of the river the Preserve biologist to search for history of the region with visits to of grass with water, water, everywhere. Manatees in a nearby harbor. Success! the historic Smallwood Store in We found eight of the large, slow Chokoloksee and the Everglades City That evening Captain Franklin Adams, moving “sea-cows” and were treated Museum where Timothy England a local Collier County resident, shared to close observation as they fed and treated us to glimpses of the early stories of the struggle to gain protection surfaced to breathe. days of south Florida. We capped the for these south Florida wild lands. weekend with dinner at Camillia’s Mixed messages emerged of passion, That evening John Adornato of the restaurant and luxuriated in the love of place, support for park service National Parks and Conservation waterside sett ing with live music that management, and disagreement on Association shared his group’s view had some of us up and dancing. proposed management and wilderness of south Florida “park” management designations. This is a place where the issues and the reasons behind their In Big Cypress, management decisions issues and solutions are complicated. recent and unusual lawsuit against the have been made and lawsuits fi led. National Park Service. Native Floridian Emotions are running high. Broads Saturday morning found us at Big and Florida Broadband Leader JoAnn found amazing diversity and beauty Cypress Swamp Visitor Center where Valenti took issue with some of his deserving real protection along with we were lined out for our volunteer observations and conclusions while surprisingly familiar conservation issues service project of cutt ing out non-native vertebrate geneticist Thomas Pringle that beg for citizens to become educated invasive plants. This was hard, hot, was in complete accord noting that and engaged. sweaty work made more challenging by Florida panthers need deer to eat and mosquitoes and the idea that snakes or undisturbed habitat if populations are Visit the Preserve web site at www.nps. alligators might be lurking in the dense ever going to recover. (see JoAnn’s gov/bicy/ undergrowth. Our band of Broads discussion on page 3.) Law suits test nexus between conservation and historical use Our Florida Swampwalk explored the many confl icting the spread of non-native and invasive species. This is an positions involving local residents, who fought for the important area for habitat and biodiversity, with nearly original Big Cypress Preserve to be established while 100 endangered/threatened plant species and 29 animals protecting local custom and culture (backcountry access to having federal protected status. inholdings and hunting), the region’s various conservation organizations, and the National Park Service (NPS). Two lawsuits have been fi led challenging the NPS decision and process regarding wilderness and The heart of the matt er is the number of acres the NPS motorized recreation. The fi rst was fi led in October 2011 found eligible as wilderness (109,000 acres) and the by the National Parks and Conservation Association (the very diff erent number (71,000) in the Final General nation’s leading park advocacy organization), for failure Management Plan for the 147,000-acre “Addition Lands” to protect unique wilderness lands and Florida panther and the process NPS used in spite of 10 years, hundreds of habitat in Big Cypress NP by exposing the Addition meetings and thousands of comments. Acquired through Lands to ORV use. The second suit was fi led November the Big Cypress National Preserve Addition Act of 1988, 2011 by the South Florida Wildlands Association, these lands became publicly owned in 1996 but were Sierra Club, Public Employees for Environmental closed to both off -road vehicle (ORV) use and ORV-assisted Responsibility (PEER), Florida Biodiversity Project, hunting pending a fi nal plan. The plan recommended just and Wilderness Watch. They are challenging the NPS 47,000 acres to Congress as future wilderness and allows decision to open the Addition Lands to motorized for a 130-mile network of ORV trails that undisputedly recreation as violations of the Wilderness Act, would create confl icts with non-motorized users, fragment Endangered Species Act, Park Service Organic Act and habitat, impact water quality and fl ows, and facilitate the National Environmental Protection Act.

14 SPRING 2012 GREATOLDBROADS.ORG 2011 Wild for Wilderness Donors! Heartfelt thanks to our many 2011 Wild for Wilderness On-line Auction donors, our seventh annual auction was a great success, netting nearly $65,000 for Broads wilderness work. We are deeply grateful to our donors for their generosity, to all of you who solicited donations, and to all of you who participated by bidding and helping to spread the word. Thank you! It’s not too early to donate to our 2012 auction. Simply e-mail Sue at auction@greatoldbroads. org or visit our on-line donation page at http://greatoldbroads.org/join-or-donate/auction/auction- donation. We are looking for corporate sponsorships as well as donations of adventure trips, outdoor gear, vacation stays, restaurant meals, and more. Here are our amazing, wonderful, generous 2011 auction donors! Please support them and let them know you appreciate their support of Broads.

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